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How to disable fullscreen system location notifications?
I keep getting a disruptive full screen pop up about once a day about Google Maps using location in the background... to save my parking spot, remember restaurants, figure out when I met someone and ...
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Date, time, and GPS metadata tagging video for iOS
On 2019/10/16 (last Wednesday), I went skydiving in Las Vegas which they recorded but the provided video was in 10 seperate clips and none had time or GPS metadata tagged. I want these as 1 video on ...
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Apps using location: maps, but maps isn't running
Every few minutes, I can see the following information in the menu bar
However Maps isn't running and I've never used it recently.
Any ideas what's happening?
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iPadOS Where has Find Friends gone?
I just updated my iPad to iPadOS13.1.2 and can't find some of my apps.
I used to use Find Friends - but it seems to be missing in action.
I can't even figure out how to search on the iPad
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Apple watch - maps screen stuck
My apologies if the post is not following the guidelines of the community, but unfortunately googling and looking in other communities has not been helpful with the problem I am facing.
After ...
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How does google maps know that I've taken pictures?
Yesterday I've visited a restaurant. The restaurant had a beautiful garden and colorful plants. So I took several pictures there. Today, Google Maps sent me a notification and offered me to share ...
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Getting logs from Apple or iPhone when someone looks up someone's location
Details:
Someone close to me and that I trusted logged into my iPhone and turned on Share my Location with their phone. On iMessages I see the note that says
iMessage with 3*******78
You started ...
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Why aren't Find My Friends location indicators working?
My boyfriend and I share location thru Messages and Find My Friends.
I used to be able to see either a purple or gray arrow in settings whenever my location was checked...but not anymore. I just ...
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Weird Wi-Fi related issues affecting "Now Playing", media keys and the Maps app
This is my first post here because I'm out of ideas. I'm running macOS Mojave 10.14.6 on a MacBook Pro 15-inch, 2018, i9, 32GB RAM, Radeon Pro 560X.
I believe all of the following symptoms are ...
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Send "Here I am now" location report in a Messages.app thread on a Mac
In iOS, we can send our current location as a message within a discussion thread on Messages.app.
➥ Can this be done in Messages.app on a Mac in Mojave or Catalina?
I am not asking about people ...
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How does my iMac know my location in the maps app, given that I use a VPN that has my IP about 200 miles from where my address is?
I have an iMac (Mid 2011, if it matters) and I just installed Mavericks.
When I launch the Maps app, it knows PRECISELY where I am, which I could certainly understand if it was using IP geolocation. ...
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Can I push notify based on geo-fencing without an iOS App?
I want to know, if there are any way to get notification when I entered in any marked geo area.
For instance when entering a mall, I want to push to devices a notification to download a specific app.
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Can the Location Services tell me where my iPhone was this morning?
Since my boss requires timesheets, it'd help for me to know exactly what time I got to the office in the morning, since I'm woefully bad at keeping track of this on my own.
I can't seem to find any ...
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Fake location find my friends
Can I fake location using two phones with find my friends by swapping sim and leaving phone in place ?
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Will the iPhone Lost Mode override disabled location tracking?
We have an iPhone that has location services disabled since we've usually been able to find the device simply with the Find My Phone "Play Sound" function.
Unfortunately, we think the device might be ...
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Why doesn't Google Maps Location history work reliably with iPhone?
I just switched from an Android phone to an iPhone. With the Android phone, my location history was perfect, with the iPhone it is all confused.
In Google Map app I've set Settings → Personal Content ...
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Siri is giving out wrong phone number for my business
I am an optometrist and when people use Siri to find me Siri is giving my home number instead of my office number. How can I correct this issue?
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Are iPhone screenshots geo-tagged?
When I take a picture using my iPhone's camera, it attaches the current location to the image in the metadata. Does it also do this for screenshots that I take?
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How do I change geolocation of photos in the Photo app?
The thing is, there is a bunch of photos I've taken that are referred at the wrong location.
For example: there is a picture of my dad that was taken at my home in Barueri, Brazil and the Photo app ...
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Change default browser based on location?
I use Chrome for work stuff and Safari for my personal stuff (each signed into my respective email). Is there a way to easily switch the default browser based on location? In the past I've used both ...
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Send current location in Messages app running iOS 12
In older versions of iOS, the Messages app had an i character in a circle which allowed us to send our current location to the other person. The location could be one-time snapshot of location, or a ...
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Can my son block me from finding him with my find my iphone app?
Can my son block me from locating him with my find my iPhone app? Is there a way for me to know if he has turned it off at all? When I was trying to locate him, he's 15, all I was seeing was a ...
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How can I complement a suggested address in Maps?
I want to find an address in Maps, let's say it's Baker Street, 221b, London. So I begin to type "baker street" into the search field in Maps. Soon, after 3-4 typed characters, "Baker Street, London, ...
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iCloud photo library - Lost locations
I must mention that I've contacted Apple support many many times about that, there were a bunch of call back from them and email conversations with senior advisors, but there was no success in finding ...
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How do I share my location on more than one iOS device?
To take advantage of Mac-continuity, Safari, Photos, Passbook, and Keychain sharing features, I have to use the same account on all my devices. But, location sharing is also enabled through iCloud and ...
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Group Significant locations by date instead of location [closed]
I find the "Signficant locations" feature in IOS very useful.
(Settings -> Privacy -> Location Services -> System Service -> Significant Locations)
I will look through it when I do my time/billing ...
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What speed does maps.app use when calculating walking times
I like walking to places. Before I leave I see how long it will take me to walk there in the maps.app. Often, I find I get there 15% faster than the time displayed on my iPhone. But again I am quite ...
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How accurate is the iPhone X location data?
First of all, I understand there are similar posts, however, they are to do with previous generation iPhones. This is specifically about the iPhone X.
How accurate is the GPS information that ...
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App to track hours in each work site [closed]
I'm a contractor and I visit my customer places, I would like to install an app that does automatically detect how much time I spend for a customer at which location with an ability to mark the ...
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Change default travel type maps
I have an iPhone running iOS 12. Is there anyway to change the travel type as I walk a lot so that it automatically gets walking directions where possible and shows travel times as walking times?
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How to download Maps for Apple maps?
How does one cache map data to enable GPS navigation without network access? I would like to cache maps before visiting an island.
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Siri unable to determine my location despite location services enabled
Specs: MacBook Pro Late 2012 running macOS High Sierra
I am trying to ask Siri to tell me what the weather is in my current area, but apparently Siri is saying that it doesn't know where I am, ...
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My iphone X with latest iOS says 'Location Shared by another device' but I have no other device
My iphone X with latest iOS says 'Location Shared by another device' when I open Find my Friends, but I have no other device.
I also have 2FA enabled so I'm not too worried about someone logging in as ...
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Apple Maps & E-Z Pass (detection?)
I've been driving a bit lately up and down the east coast of the United States and I realized that Apple Maps constantly tells me to "stay left" when going through tolls.
Every toll that I have gone ...
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Does iOS 10 support geotags for MMS messages?
I am finding that MMS messages are consistently not containing geotag data using iMessage. This occurs for iMessage on iOS 10.0.2 and MacOS 10.11.6. When I am within the iMessage app (either on my Mac ...
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How do I find out which app is using my location in the background?
There is a hollow location icon present at all times in my iPhone's status bar.
How do I find out which app is causing this? There used to be a section called "Location Services" in Settings but I ...
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how might one spoof geographic location on a desktop Mac
I use a social network site that attaches location information to posts made on iPhones or MacBooks. When I post from my desktop, no GPS information is available and this field is left blank (there is ...
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Find my friends several iphones
i have 2 iphones, the new for my business. I share my location on Find your friends with my family. When I‘m working, I often forgot my private iphone at home. So I would like to share my location ...
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Apple Watch acceptable accuracy?
What is the expected/acceptable accuracy level of Apple Watch distance measurement? We have two series 4 watch - one mine and one that my wife wears. When we go on hike together and start "outdoor ...
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Does opening Apple News for the first time re-enable location-based ads?
After upgrading to Mojave, I checked around the settings for new features and saw that location-based apple ads (Security & Privacy -> Location Services -> System Services Details) was unticked (I'...
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If I disable Location Services, will Find My iPhone continue to work?
If I disable Location Services, will Find My iPhone continue to work? I turned off Location Services, but iOS 8.3 is allowing me to leave Find My iPad turned on. The message underneath says though:
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How does iPhone know I'm travelling with location services switched off
Recently acquired an iPhone SE (after a factory refresh), and I have location services turned off.
Twice recently I've taken a train, and had the pop-up/splash screen offering to turn on do no ...
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Persistent location-based reminder
I want to set a permanent reminder in iOS that will fire every time I leave the house to remind me to check that I've locked the door. I can set a location-based reminder that triggers when I leave, ...
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Automatically tag photo locations
Quite often I have a situation when photos are taken both from iPhone (which would record GPS coordinates) and at the same place/time with DSLR which will not add any location information.
Is there ...
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How to remove/delete geo-location meta data from photos?
Occasionally someone emails me a photograph with their geo data included. I don't record this on my photos, so it's weird to have just one image randomly include location.
In previous versions of ...
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macOS Maps - any way to change the default starting point for navigation?
Is there a hidden setting to change the default starting point for Maps navigation away from "My Location"?
The Problem: When I'm traveling, I frequently want to check the distance between two ...
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iPhone shows wrong location
I recently moved and my iPhone still shows my old address for location services (e.g. in the Maps app and 3rd party applications that use Apple's location services). I assume the source of the problem ...
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How do I enable location services for a specific website on Safari for OS X?
In the past I've disabled Location Services for a specific site in Safari for OS X, but would now like to enable it, for that site only. How do I do that. None of the instructions I've found describe ...
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Alternatives to Google Earth that can consume KMZ
I'm trying to eliminate Google software from my OS X experience.
I would like to eliminate Google Earth. Are there OS X tools that can consume or work with KMZ files? Are there good online tools that ...
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Fishy moves at night
Today, due to some reasons I factory-reset my iPhone. When I’m setting up (pressing those “Get Started”), I found something fishy in the Health app.
I rarely work after 1am, and recently I did start ...
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