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Q: Turn off auto location in Calendar

How do you turn off the autofill location of the new Yosemite Calendar application? I type locations that are not addresses, but places I know and it keeps auto correcting them to random locations around the globe (regardless of whether I 'choose' the auto location or not. The lack of ability to turn this on or off is forcing you to use what apple wants you too...very google esq move.

Posted on Oct 27, 2014 10:19 PM

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  • by CCapelle,

    CCapelle CCapelle Jan 23, 2015 7:01 AM in response to me3654
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    Jan 23, 2015 7:01 AM in response to me3654

    I can't be bothered with time-intensive, passive aggressive non-solutions like "turn off the internet when entering location" or "edit the address on my iPhone." I simply bypass "Add Location" entirely and put the address in "Notes." Stick it to the man!

  • by YDNY,

    YDNY YDNY Jan 27, 2015 6:47 PM in response to me3654
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    Jan 27, 2015 6:47 PM in response to me3654

    Thank you for posting!  Same problem here!!!  So i ended up just using "-" between words.  For example: emerson-hall-1200.  that is the building that is my location! and i kept getting emerson NJ in ical!

     

    Hope Apple resolves this soon!!!

  • by balinabeach,

    balinabeach balinabeach Feb 14, 2015 8:49 AM in response to YDNY
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    Feb 14, 2015 8:49 AM in response to YDNY

    Thank you so much for this "patch" until Apple fixes the problem. This has been extremely frustrating. Adding the "-" is annoying and time-consuming, but is the best temporary fix I've seen so far.

  • by balinabeach,

    balinabeach balinabeach Feb 14, 2015 8:50 AM in response to YDNY
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    Feb 14, 2015 8:50 AM in response to YDNY

    My "thank you" goes out to YDNY.

  • by leedherman,

    leedherman leedherman Feb 22, 2015 6:55 PM in response to me3654
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    Feb 22, 2015 6:55 PM in response to me3654

    I can't be bothered with any of these workarounds. Sunrise Calendar (https://calendar.sunrise.am/) is gorgeous and solves this problem by using Google Maps for locations. It's lightning fast to type in the location field and Google Map suggestions come up almost instantaneously (assuming a fast Internet connection). So my attempt to put in a club in Calendar which resulted in substitution of just the street address without the venue name came up with the full venue name and address properly mapped in Google Maps in the calendar entry after entering 4 characters of the venue name in Sunrise Calendar.

     

    The only down side is that Exchange/Outlook calendars are only supported on iOS and Android, not the Web or Mac versions.

     

    The price? FREE! And it's beautiful to look at.

     

    Apple should be embarrassed (and I'm an Apple fan).

     

    New: I just switched back to Sunrise Calendar (I really gave the Yosemite version of Calendar a try, but this issue happened one too many times tonight). Apparently Sunrise is now part of Microsoft! They say it will remain free and they'll keep making it better with an update coming soon!

  • by mputnam80,

    mputnam80 mputnam80 Mar 2, 2015 9:16 PM in response to leedherman
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    Mar 2, 2015 9:16 PM in response to leedherman

    I left feedback for Apple about this. I have this problem also. Thanks for the tips. I was able to edit the location on my iPhone, but what a pain!

  • by BPpark,

    BPpark BPpark Mar 19, 2015 5:58 AM in response to me3654
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    Mar 19, 2015 5:58 AM in response to me3654

    Sorry to arrive late at this thread, but I was having this problem also and the workaround I found was simply to enter a street address with no city, and then bypass the suggestions by mouse clicking somewhere else outside the Event window.  It seems to work for me. As a new user to Yosemite (upgraded from Lion), I find Maps to be as big an embarrassment for Apple on the desktop as it was in iOS. If I could disable it entirely, I would.

  • by havinabubble,

    havinabubble havinabubble Mar 25, 2015 7:22 AM in response to me3654
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    Mar 25, 2015 7:22 AM in response to me3654

    having found this thread on discovering that I too was suffering with the same auto substitution issue in the location field of Calendar...


    I tried the suggestions here but nothing stuck 100%, so I called Apple Support (I've got AppleCare, so might as well use it)


    Explained to a Level 1, then a Level 2 tec and he took the problem away and sent me a very prompt response the following day.


    Here is the important bit of the response:


    "Engineering have confirmed that they have received reports worldwide regarding the issue of location lookups/ autofill and the fact that they are shortening addresses and not allowing the customer to choose a suggestion as averse to have one forced upon them.

     

    They advised that at present the issue is just beginning to come to light likely due to recent updates etc and they are currently investigating these reports.

     

     

    They confirmed that they have al the information they need at this time and agreed that any solution is likely to come via another software update however they were unable to speculate on the expected turn around time at this point."


    ...please don't shoot the messenger


    but it pays to make that call or press that feedback button....and of course post here!


    The only 100% workaround is to paste the address, the way you want it,  in the Notes field until the permanent fix comes for the Location field.





  • by leedherman,

    leedherman leedherman Mar 25, 2015 3:59 PM in response to havinabubble
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    Mar 25, 2015 3:59 PM in response to havinabubble

    Thanks for chasing this down with Apple. I gave up and spent the money for BusyCal (http://www.busymac.com/busycal/index.html and BusyContacts, which replaces the Apple Contacts app). Neither are cheap but I haven't looked back and I'm getting to love them more everyday, not just because of the issue in this particular thread. If you don't need access to an Exchange calendar, Sunrise (https://calendar.sunrise.am/) is very pretty and also gets around this issue. Sunrise has iOS clients and BusyCal and BusyContacts work fine with other iOS calendar and contact apps. I have Sunrise calendar on my iPhone.

  • by qwertylove,

    qwertylove qwertylove Mar 26, 2015 9:08 PM in response to me3654
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    Mar 26, 2015 9:08 PM in response to me3654

    Apple, please remove this feature of auto location in Calendar!  It's gives useless suggestions all of the time and it's hard to work with this all day long!  PLEASE PLEASE FIX IT!  Thank you!

  • by slaterk,

    slaterk slaterk Mar 30, 2015 8:37 AM in response to havinabubble
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    Mar 30, 2015 8:37 AM in response to havinabubble

    I've just called Apple about this too - the lady, after trying to enter an address, saw the problem for herself immediately. She logged the 'bug', and sent me a link directing me to the location to report it ... for iCal!! https://www.apple.com/feedback/ical.html 

  • by Richard KP,

    Richard KP Richard KP Apr 2, 2015 7:53 AM in response to slaterk
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    Apr 2, 2015 7:53 AM in response to slaterk

    I've just reported the bug too.

     

    Then I tried starting the address I was entering with a non-break space (Alt + Space bar), and it seemed to prevent the auto-substitution.

  • by Torunn,

    Torunn Torunn Apr 28, 2015 10:25 PM in response to me3654
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    Apr 28, 2015 10:25 PM in response to me3654

    As I see it there are two issues with this. My primary concern is that of privacy. As an earlier poster notes, why would I want my whereabouts logged in such detail by a service provider? But secondly, yes: the difficulty in editing the location is also very annoying.

    Couldn't location suggestions simply be a optional feature in preferences?

  • by sixstringste,

    sixstringste sixstringste Jun 9, 2015 5:36 AM in response to me3654
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    Jun 9, 2015 5:36 AM in response to me3654

    I am amazed that this still has not been resolved.

     

    A Sat-Nav app that I use ('Waze' - can't recommend it enough, it's free and works very well) has the handy function of accessing your calendar and when you open the App, it offers to direct you to your next appointment.

     

    Now however, the app can't always recognise an address once iCalendar massacres it.

     

    Sadly, the workarounds that people have suggested are counter-productive in this situation, eg. obscuring addresses by adding Zs to fool iCalendar, also fools my Sat-Nav!

     

    For some reason, this following format doesn't get auto-corrected and is still recognised by my Sat-Nav. It might be helpful for those people who want to keep their addresses neat, with commas between each line...

     

    10 High Street,

    Bedford,

    Bedfordshire,

    UK,

    MK31 2SP

  • by AppleJeannie,

    AppleJeannie AppleJeannie Jun 29, 2015 5:38 PM in response to mathlover1
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    Jun 29, 2015 5:38 PM in response to mathlover1

    In addition to Mathlover1's suggestion to press Tab right after entering the address you want, I used Doscoharsh's suggestion to first make sure your mouse is hovering somewhere above the title of the event. That seems to work - at least for now.

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