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How can I open a Google Maps URL in Apple Maps?
Is there a way for me to convert a Google Maps URL to an Apple Maps-friendly format so it opens in the correct place?
I might be in the minority, but where I am, Apple Maps offers vastly superior ...
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Saving GPS Coordinates in Contacts
I live in a country which has few registered Apple Maps addresses.
All that i want is to store GPS coordinates in contacts to use those at the Reminders app.
I came from diverse forums like this and ...
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How do I test significant location change events?
According to Apple's docs, if I run startMonitoringSignificantLocationChanges and then terminate my app the significant location changes API will re-launch my app when a significant location event ...
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How does one create a repeating location-based reminder on their iPhone?
Typically, when a user creates a reminder on their iPhone they have the option of setting a 'repeat' schedule (e.g. Every Day, Every Week, etc). However, this option is only available when the ...
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Are Apple maps for iPhone broken in SE Asia in 2018?
I have iOS 11.2.2 and have not used Apple maps in a long time. I’m seeing a blank map with a grid on iPhone, but no actual map layer or tiles ever loading when zoomed in.
How do I fix broken empty ...
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Find My Friends app accuracy
I have my boyfriend's location on the Find My Friends app and he has mine as well.
Normally his location appears to hops around a bit when it's loading on my screen, but it's usually in the same 2-3 ...
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iPhone 6 GPS problem on Pokemon Go
Recently when I'm playing Pokemon Go I get a message saying I don't have a GPS signal. Some people told me it could happen because the battery is pushing on the GPS component in the iPhone 6 model.
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How can I tell if my friend is broadcasting their location from an iPad vers an iPhone?
I wondered if there was a way to tell the device being used to broadcast a location in Find My Friends. As in, if someone switched over their location from iPhone to iPad to show that they were at one ...
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Can MDM track my location?
I have Maas360 on my iPhone, but the app isn't installed it's only listed under MDM. Can it track my location even if I didnt give the app location permissions?
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Why does iPhone "Time & Location" consume some much data?
I've noticed an iPhone 5S consuming quite a lot of data (30-50Mb per day) - it's mostly listed under "Time & Location". I have apps running that use the location a lot (e.g. Strava, location ...
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Address for "Home" is incorrect in Maps and I can't seem to find a way to updated it?
When I originally got my iPhone 5s I asked Siri to set my home address. At that time, it recognized a wrong address and I can't seem to find a way to correct it. It is listed with a little house icon ...
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How can I run a script automatically when changing Location?
When I change Location (via System Preferences -> Network or -> Location), I would like to be able to run a bash script (specifically, an ssh call to start a SOCKS proxy session).
Is that possible, ...
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iPhone camera consolidating geotags for multiple photos
I recently took a bunch of pictures around a location, expecting that each picture's precise location would be recorded so I could place them on a map. This has worked before.
What I found when I got ...
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How to clear search history in Apple Maps
I’m on iOS 11 and to sliding an entry to the left is supposed to remove the entry. Now that the clear all option is gone I have to do it one by one, which is okay, but the problem is it doesn’t work.
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What iPhone maps app can I use if I don't have a SIM card?
I'm going to be using my iPhone overseas without a SIM card, but I want to use turn-by-turn navigation to walk and drive around.
I'm willing to plot my route via wifi before I leave the house, but I ...
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Access Mac App Store via VPN
I am pretty new to Macs, but I am not sure that is relevant here. I do use a VPN sometimes (and will do so more). It seems to work OK for browsers, email etc as it should.
However, I wanted to change ...
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How to manually edit locations in iPhoto 9.5 ('11) in a bigger window?
With the previous versions of iPhoto, I was used to add a location for an album or batch of pictures taken during the same outdoor trip (backcountry skiing or alpinism tour for instance). My camera is ...
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macOS 10.13 High Sierra - Location Services will not enable
I'm running macOS 10.13 High Sierra on my 2011 15" MacBook Pro. Whenever I try to enable Location Services, the checkbox momentarily turns 'checked' and then goes back to disabled.
How can I enable ...
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Getting coordinates for frequent locations?
In iOS, if “system services” are active in privacy, my “frequent locations” are recorded, but I can only see, for each of them, a fragment of a map and a quite generic description: the name of a road, ...
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Help with troubleshooting location services where one app isn't registering
We have an app which uses Location Services. One of our users is complaining that he can't see the app in the Location Services settings, even though the application reports that Location Services are ...
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Why does iPhone Maps app sometimes ask to enable Wi-Fi for "accuracy", even though Location Services (GPS) is enabled?
Background:
I have an iPhone 3GS with iOS 5.1, and a 3G data plan that I keep enabled. I also keep "Location Services" (GPS) always on, since I use applications that take advantage of it.
However, I ...
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Track last known location of iPad mini (2) without "Find My Phone"
I recently seem to have lost my iPad mini. I had expected Apple to have some functionality for lost devices enabled by default, but I notice that I cannot use Find My Phone via the iCloud interface, ...
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On iPhone and iPad, how do I get the latitude and longitude number from the Maps app or Google Maps app?
For example, on a desktop computer, if I enter in Google Maps website:
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA
I can easily get in the URL
37.769425,-122.48840
If I use the Maps app or Google Maps app,...
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Photos.app Sierra - Add a brand new location to the locations database?
I'm adding locations to my pictures in Photos.app and I want to a location that isn't in the database.
The Google search I tired told me how to add known locations, but not unknown locations. The ...
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Find my friends inaccurate location
Is it possible for find my friends location to initially identify the correct location and then suddenly shift to an inaccurate location even if that person is still in his initial location?
What ...
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Prevent Maps from changing modes of direction
I was riding my bicycle downtown today listening to music and directions from my phone through my headphones. Since I was riding my bike I wanted walking directions but any time I started picking up ...
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Location Services shown on menu bar even though all apps are disabled
I have encountered a weird problem with my Macbook Pro (mid 2017/macOS Sierra 10.12.6). It shows the Location Services icon on the menu bar, many times a day, even after unchecking all application ...
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How do I stop my iPhone camera automatically recording my location when I take photos?
I already know I can go into my iPhone’s Privacy settings and select what apps can use my camera. My question is not about stopping apps from using my camera. It is about not allowing photos and ...
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Locational service notification
I would like to know if there is any app that would notify me when locational service is being used up . Or it been open .
My ex wife has my find my iphone . I get a little arrow when she is using ...
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Menu bar shows that macOS Sierra very frequently uses location services to check the time zone even though Setting Time Zone is disabled
Ever since upgrading to macOS Sierra, I have been able to keep track of when programs use my location because the menu bar displays an icon whenever an app requests this information. I have noticed ...
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What is this 'findmydeviced' in my location icon on the top menu bar?
I have location services on (for Maps & Safari only) and I randomly get this location notification on the top menu bar saying:
" Apps using location: findmydeviced"
What does this mean?
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How does a misspelled city name get fixed in Maps?
Apple has been misspelling the city "West Des Moines" as "West des Moines" (no capital "D") for quite some time now. I tried reporting this issue a number of times through the Maps application during ...
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Disable webpages asking for location?
I've got a webpage that I have to access for work each morning and it continually asks to use my location. Is there an way to block this from asking for my location? I'm not so much concerned about it ...
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iPhone shows up as offline in Google location sharing
I have an iPhone and want to share my live location using Google Maps. I can find my friends using Android and they can see one another, but somehow they cannot see my location. I only show up as ...
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How to reset iOS Maps data
Whenever I use maps to get directions to any destination, Maps notes that I have to go over a toll road (denoted with a small € symbol). Except: I live in the Netherlands and we have no toll roads.
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Why does my iPhone use my location when I tell it not to?
Why does my iPhone use my location even though I tell it not to? As you can see from the Time Zone setting, I have it switched off, yet it says that my location was recently used. Why bother having a ...
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Cannot Turn on Location Services
When I open System Preferences, go to Privacy, unlock the pane with my password. When I click on the 'Turn on Location Services' checkbox, the computer freezes, and the box turn blue and immediately ...
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AppleScript for lifting & stamping latitude & longitude of photos onto themselves
After repairing my Aperture library, I have over 3000 photos with latitude and longitude information whose place displays as "Unnamed location" on the map. If I lift and stamp the data using Shift+...
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What exactly is required for Apple's Find-my-car feature to work?
My friends and I have noticed inconsistent results with Apple's feature to find your parked car. We've all seen it work sometimes, but not always.
The feature I'm talking about is described here: ...
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OSX Maps displays a non existant iPhone
I have recently had my iPhone 5 replaced at the apple store due to an antenna failure. At the time it was running iOS 7 and upon handing it over to receive the new one, iCloud was disabled and the ...
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Changing my home address in iOS 7 not picked up in Maps or notification center
I need to change my home address, following this post. I've moved, so I need to update my address, but it does not seem to work. My new street address does not exist in the map (as I've moved to a ...
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Geotagging with Photos or other app
I've got ~100GB of photos that I've imported into Photos. Photos stayed in place because they are in date related subfolders. I would stay with original sorting as it is more usable with other photo ...
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How did my iPhone determine the location of Photos when off-line?
How did my iPhone determine the location of a Photo when the iPhone was offline and not connected to any wifi? It even determined the location exactly, even though there was no Network. How does this ...
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How to show the map in Photos?
I just upgraded to OS X Yosemite with the new Photos application. I have seen screenshots online where we can view photos on a map, however I can't get to that map.
How can I see all of my photos on ...
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Location in Weather Widget is Wrong
The location in the weather widget of the notification center is permanently wrong since September 2014. I was in Ampus for vacation. But today I'm at home and the location is not changing!
If I ...
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Where are these ads on my lock-screen coming from and how can I get rid of it?
Every time when I am close to an "dm market" (a German drugstore) I am getting this advertisement on my lock-screen. When I open this notification it looks like in the second screenshot below. There ...
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Map cannot navigate foreign country
I cannot get my Map app on Mac OS X Yosemite to navigate a different country. For example, if I search for "Osaka, Japan", it kept finding me the nearly Japanese restaurant named Osaka...
How to get ...
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How would Find my iPod work on a locked iPod Touch?
In order for an iPod Touch (which has Find My iPod enabled) to let Apple's servers know where it is located (e.g. via Wi-Fi positioning), I believe it needs to transmit the location over Wi-Fi.
Let's ...
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Make iPhone use GPS-only location services
The question is as simple and clear as it sounds.
When celullar data and Wi-Fi are turned off on my iPhone 6, location services work great and I get my location in a moment with a precision of 1-2 ...
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See other's Android location on an iPhone
I have an Android phone (Nexus 6P) and my wife has an iPhone 6.
We would like to have the same functionality as Find My Friends offers, without both having iPhones.
Thus, we share each other's ...
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