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Tagged with geolocation ios
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Does the iPhone GPS work in an airplane cruising between 30000-40000 feet?
I have a very basic question: if I enable GPS in my iPhone when in an airplane cruising at an altitude between 30000-40000 feet (roughly 9-12 km), will the GPS actually give valid data?
I read a ...
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How does Bluetooth improve location accuracy?
I noticed that iOS 7 on my iPad now says this in the Bluetooth pane of the preferences if Bluetooth is turned off: "Location accuracy and nearby services are improved when Bluetooth is turned on."
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Why is the Location Services icon always present?
I updated my iPhone 4 to iOS 5 last night. In iOS 4, the purple GPS arrow appeared next to the battery indicator when an app I was using (or had running in the background) was actively accessing my ...
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Location Indicator, Hollow vs. Solid
The location indicator in the top bar of iOS seems to have two states: hollow and solid.
Hollow:
And solid:
I know that the icon is visible whenever an application is using Location Services, what'...
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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 did iPhone 4 know to switch timezone in Airplane Mode?
I have both an iPhone 4 (from work) and an iPhone 3GS (personal). Today I took a cross country flight from BOS to LAX. Upon boarding the plane this morning, after having stayed up all night packing (...
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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 accurate is the location detection on the iPhone's Find My iPhone app
How accurate is the GPS on the iPhone's Find My iPhone app?
I used Find My iPhone app to track a friend. The first 3 stops were dead on but when it refreshed it showed them to be several streets over ...
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How can I make Siri's geo-fenced reminders wait until I actually arrive?
I'm walking my dog and tell Siri, "When I get home, remind me to take out the trash." It sets up a reminder keyed to my arrival at a location, my home address. So far so good, but the reminder ...
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How can I remove geolocation info from a picture on an iPhone?
Since geolocation info is usually preserved when I share a photo from my iPhone, I was wondering what the simplest way is to remove this geolocation info from an existing picture.
To be clear: I don'...
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Can I use Siri to remember a parking spot?
Can I use Siri to remember a particular GPS location, then later navigate back to it? It seems like it should be possible but I don't know what the voice directive would be.
I occasionally use a car-...
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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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How can I show geolocation of one specific photo on a map in iOS?
Just changed from Samsung Galaxy 5 to iPhone. Galaxy's feature I liked was click on a photo, then more info, and if the photo was geotagged, it would open a map showing location.
I can only show ...
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How do you enable Google Location History on an iPhone?
I would like to enable Google's Location History on my iPhone so I can see my location history at https://www.google.com/maps/timeline.
I tried enabling this functionality as follows: Open the Google ...
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iPhone 6 and iPad picking up different location settings for search and ads
iPad and iPhone think they're in a different country. All ads and searches default to Hong Kong.
I have checked my location setting on each device and they're set for Australia and I've cleared the ...
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How to set a Reminder on iOS5 for a location AND date?
I'd like to set a Reminder on iOS5 for my iPhone 4 for when I leave work on Friday... However, the app seems to allow only location OR date/time notifications (or you can have both independently). Is ...
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Unknown AirTag near me?
I recently got a message on my iPad that an unknown AirTag is moving with me. By the time I noticed the notification I was unable to play a sound or locate the current location of the AirTag. The map ...
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What is "useful location-related information" that "Frequent Locations" setting provides?
The Frequent Locations setting explains itself quite vaguely:
I see the service polling my current location often* but I don't see any concrete benefits having this option turned on. In another ...
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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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Can GPS be used by more than 1 app at a time
I'm looking at various apps which use GPS tracking, and was wondering if more than 1 app at a time was able to gain access to the GPS data?
For example I might want to use one app with route planning ...
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Weather without location services, using just one fixed location
I would like to see the current temperature on the first page (under Siri app suggestion) on iPad mini 2. But I don't like location services being on.
Is it possible just to set up one fixed location ...
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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 do I stop notifications about my wife's Airpods being "detected near me"?
When Apple released the AirTag, they made a big deal about safety features to help prevent stalking. If there's an unknown AirTag or other location-enabled device traveling with you, your iPhone will ...
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Does iOS app location tracking require permission?
Some apps say they track location in “data linked to you” in their app privacy label.
For example, the game Roblox.
But, these apps (like Roblox) don’t always appear in the Settings -> Privacy &...
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Force iPad/iPhone to use specific location for services
Is there any way to force an iPhone or iPad (jailbroken) to use a different location other then my actual current one. For searching... Say I am in NY, NY and do a search, I want location services to ...
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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 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 bluetooth and wifi required for location based reminders?
To get location based reminders to work, are bluetooth and wifi required to be enabled or just bluetooth?
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How can I use an iPhone to "tag" a location using GPS so I can bookmark a location?
I need to tag a "location" of interest such as
An nest or hive out in nature where no cellular service is available
Location of a good view on a mountain (where no cell service is visible)
Location ...
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Is picture location info retained when I share a photo?
When I send a picture to a friend (e.g. via Messages, Mail, or Tweet), is the location information in that photo preserved? In other words, can they see where I took that photo?
What about when I use ...
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Disable iPhone location prompts
For my work, I have to use an application that needs "Always On" location on my iPhone (latest iOS 13), but every day (sometimes twice a day) I have the "X is tracking your location." prompt. I answer ...
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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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Google on my iOS devices is stuck in a different region than I live in
For some reason, my browser always defaults to New Zealand. I've reset my location in the Store and in the settings, but it always pulls up google.co.nz when doing a search and the default map centers ...
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What are the different types of System Services using Location in iOS 5?
With the new iOS 5 comes new way of managing Location Services. This allows you not only manage which applications can use Location, but also which System Services are allowed to use it.
There is ...
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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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Does Apple's stock Reminders app geofencing work with iBeacons?
I'd like to know whether geofenced reminders in Apple's stock Reminders app can use iBeacons to trigger.
My use case is that I'd like to place an iBeacon in my home, and trigger reminders when it is ...
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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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No location in metadata of place when in plane?
I have noticed when taking photos in airplane, the phone has no metadata. I don’t know why but is there a app which can save metadata of where the plane is passing like offline google maps for ...
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Retroactively geotag photos
On my iPhone, I normally turn off Location Services on the Camera for privacy.
I turned it in today for a specific event, but not before I had taken several photos without location information.
How ...
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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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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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Why does location service turn itself off?
I have an iOS application that has been marked as needing background service (Location Updates). When the app is in the foreground, I see the location arrow in the top status bar. However if I double-...
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Bluetooth tracking built into iOS?
While there is a joint venture to produce an API by Google and Apple which allows truly anonymous contact tracing, is there an API for more generic device tracing, similar to how Tile and other ...
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Is it possible to prevent repeated location usage warning prompts in iOS 13?
I have a couple of apps which I have set to Always On location usage. I'm sure that's what I want, and it's not going to change any time soon. iOS 13 prompts me about each of them every day or two. I ...
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How does my iPhone (iOS 9) know that I'm about to drive home?
Since iOS 9, every time I get in my car and start it, I receive a notification that I can expect an x minutes drive to my home. How does the phone know that I'm driving my car?
Does it detect motion ...
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Can an app in iOS 8 access Location Services even when it is not running?
I have the Kohl's app installed on my iPhone running iOS 8.1. I notice that whenever I enable Location Access for that specific app, it starts pinging my location immediately, based on the location ...
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How do I set a location for an event in iOS Calendar?
A date and time is incomplete without a location. How do I tell the iOS Calendar app where my event occurs, especially if the event does not have a street address that is resolvable by Apple Maps?
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Update 'Find my iPhone' location with new wireless network setup
Apple used to use Skyhook Wireless to do geolocation on wifi devices to assist with GPS.
Now, according to their recent location services press release, as well as previous iOS release notes, they ...
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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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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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