5 helpful tips for using geolocation on iPhone and iPad

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

One simple fact: iPhones and iPads constantly track our location. I agree, it sounds creepy, but on the other hand, it's incredibly convenient. In this article, we will introduce the GPS capabilities of the iPhone and iPad beyond using maps or navigators.

Never forget about anything

Simple reminders don't work when you need to do something with a specific location. Sitting in the office, you clearly remember that you need to buy milk home in the evening, but when you come to the store, you will completely forget about it and remember when you drive up to the house. With the iPhone, the problem is easy to solve.

When creating a reminder, all you have to do is click the Remind me at the place toggle switch, select a place and indicate when you want to be reminded: upon arrival or after leaving.

Tell your friends where you are

It is sometimes very difficult to explain to a person where you are yourself. Such troubles are completely useless if you and your friends use iOS devices.

Just open the chat details in the "Messages" by clicking "Details" and click "Send my current location". Your interlocutor will receive a geotag, which can be immediately viewed in the "Maps" and quickly get directions to the destination. Instead of a thousand words, as they say.

Be aware of your friends' movements

An expanded use case for the previous tip, which will save your wife or girlfriend from calling you and asking you how soon you will be for dinner. Thanks to the preinstalled Find Friends application, you can see all movements of your favorite contacts on the map and share yours.

Find Friends has a notification function that lets you set up alerts when a person has left or arrived there. Awesome handy for a family or for coordinating a large number of people when gathering for picnics, parties and other events.

Arrive for appointments on time

No one likes to be late for meetings, but very few people like to languish in anticipation, arriving an hour earlier. In order not to resort to such drastic measures, it is enough to use the "Travel time" function when creating an event.

You just need to open the point of the same name and, having added a destination and a place of departure, click the toggle switch. You can also set an alert that it's time to go. The system will send a notification, taking into account traffic jams, if the traffic situation in “Maps” is supported for your city.

Disable Visited Places Tracking

Whether you like it or not, by default, iPhones and iPads monitor the places you visit frequently. This is done to improve the maps, as well as to offer you any interesting information based on this data. If you don't need it, we can safely turn it off.

The toggle switch we need is hidden in the depths of the geolocation system services. Here: Settings → Privacy → Location Services → System Services → Frequently Visited Places. We translate it to the "off" position, and you can no longer be afraid of surveillance by special services, Big Brother and other Masons.