Location Tracking

Your Apple Watch is your personal assistant, your personal trainer, and your most accessible gadget. One of the best ways to meet your daily exercise goals and stay motivated is to track your steps, which contributes to your overall count for calories expended. It's important, however, to ensure that your Apple Watch pedometer is working correctly, or you may be seeing inaccurate step tracking results. In this article we look at how to make sure your Apple Watch is able to accurately count your steps, and how to how to calibrate your Apple Watch step counter if it's inaccurate results.

Losing an iPhone or having it stolen can be an incredibly stressful experience. Not only is an iPhone expensive, there is also a lot of sensitive data on it. Plus, it is likely linked to your other Apple devices, which could put those devices at risk. There are several steps to take once a phone is stolen and cannot be retrieved using Find My app. These include protecting your data by erasing the phone, and removing it from your iCloud as a trusted device. It is also important to reset your Apple ID password and potentially file a claim if the phone is insured. Check out the following steps for what to do when your iPhone is stolen.

Can you share your location from your Apple Watch instead of your iPhone? Yes! Your watch knows your location whether you have GPS and Cellular, or just GPS services, and with the Find People app that comes installed on your watch, you can send your location directly from your wrist instead of fiddling with your iPhone while you're out and about. I've used it a few times when I was out walking and didn't want to have to deal with my iPhone while also holding onto my dog's leash, and it was quick and simple. If you have an Apple Watch with GPS+Cellular, you can even do this if you've left your iPhone at home! We'll show you how to send location information to a friend or family member using your Apple Watch.

Location Services on your iPhone lets Apple apps (like the Camera app) and third-party apps (like your banking app) figure out where you're located while using your phone. When iPhone Photo Location Services is turned on and you take a photo, it'll tag your photo with your current location. This way, you can search through the photos that you took on your vacation to Bora Bora or in your own hometown. Location Services uses Wi-Fi or cellular data plus GPS services to find your location. If you're connected to data or Wi-Fi but your photos aren't being tagged, we have a few simple fixes for you to try. Here's how to get Photos Location Services working again.

I go for a lot of solo hikes and even go camping on my own sometimes. When I go, I remember the golden rule of solo exploration: always let someone know where you're going. So how do I share my location using my iPhone? The Find My app makes this extremely simple, and gives my exact location wherever I am, just in case. The best part is that I can share it with anyone I choose to share it with, but it's not visible to others. This article will show you exactly how to share your location with someone using the Find My app.

People often wonder how to save battery life on their iPhone or iPad. Lots of tips and tricks to extend iPad and iPhone battery life stay the same for several iOS and iPadOS versions and Apple device generations. But, Apple is always working to develop its operating systems to include new features, and sometimes these new software features are responsible for draining battery life, and require new solutions. One useful new feature of iOS 14 and iPadOS are widgets, but unfortunately, widgets can also shorten your iPad or iPhone battery life. If you find yourself asking, "why is my iPhone battery draining so fast?" your iPadOS or iOS widgets might be causing the problem, and we have a solution for you! We've already gone over how to add widgets to your iPhone and iPad; now, read on to learn how one easy tip can act as a major battery saver and extend iPad and iPhone battery life. 

Keeping your iPhone and iPad Wi-Fi connected while at home reduces cellular data usage and ensures a fast internet connection. It's best to turn Wi-Fi off when you leave home, though, to avoid connecting to unsafe networks and to reduce the battery-drain that happens when your iPhone searches for available Wi-Fi networks. If doing this manually seems tedious and difficult to remember, the Shortcuts app is here to help. With this handy app, you can set up your devices to automatically disable Wi-Fi when you leave home. Here's how to use Shortcuts to automatically turn off Wi-Fi when you leave home, and automatically turn Wi-Fi back on again when you return.

Did you know that your iPhone tracks everywhere you go? It does; and if there is a place you visit often enough, it marks it as a Significant Location (a feature formerly known as Frequent Locations). This tip will show you how to find your iPhone location history in your Location Services settings. And we'll also cover how to turn Significant Locations tracking off and how to clear your iPhone location history, in case looking at the list of all the places you frequently visit gives you the heebie-jeebies.

You can keep your navigation history a secret in Google Maps on your iPhone by using the new Incognito mode feature. This new way to hide your location history in Google Maps on your iPhone is similar to Incognito mode in Google Chrome, which offers a private browsing window and deletes browsing history when it's closed. This tip will show you how to keep your Google Maps location searches, maps, and navigation history private by using Incognito mode in the iPhone Google Maps app. And what information doesn't get hidden by Google Maps Incognito mode.

Sharing pictures from your iPhone can be fun, but that doesn't mean you also want to share the data attached to the photo. Not everyone needs to know where a picture was taken, especially not when it comes to posting your pictures online. Luckily, you can control how and when that data is shared directly from the Photos app. Let's dive in with how to remove your data from the photos you want to share.

Did you know that you can share your real-time location with friends and family right from the Google Maps app on your iPhone? We've already covered how to share and save locations from Apple Maps, but you can also send your location from the Google Maps app, so there's no confusion about meet-up spots when you're out and about. Let's get started!

Sharing your ETA with a contact using Apple Maps allows you to keep a friend or colleague up to date on your arrival time so that you can focus on driving. To share your ETA, you'll need to select a destination in Apple Maps and begin navigation. Let's dive in with how to share your ETA with a contact using the Maps app on your iPhone.

Apple's Photos app lets you photo search based on location, as well as with multiple search terms. Now, instead of scrolling through vacation pictures looking for the photos you took in a specific place, you can just search for that area, and all the pictures from that location will pop right up! Let's get started learning how to use this iPhone Photos search feature right now. 

If you haven't used Apple's Do Not Disturb feature yet, it's a great way to silence notifications from calls, texts, and apps while your iPhone is locked. With iOS 12 and later, DND is now more versatile and useful than ever before with some long-awaited upgrades, including a location-based setting. Learn how to turn on Do Not Disturb for specific places, so your device doesn't start buzzing and beeping just when you need it to be quiet. 

I have been riding bicycles longer than I have been using computers. I have been riding the same recumbent for over 30 years. Yet it wasn't until the announcement of the Lumos Bicycle Helmet ($179.99) that I have been this interested in a bicycling accessory in a long time. This helmet combines bicycle safety with smart illumination to inform those around you of your direction and speed intentions. Read on to find out if this high-tech helmet was worth the wait.

This article will tell you how to find your iPhone or iPad when it's dead, as well as how to use Find My iPhone Lost Mode. If you need to know how to track an iPhone location, using the Find My app to locate your iPhone is the easiest method. If you've enabled the Find My iPhone feature in the Settings app on your iPhone or iPad, you can use Find My to locate the missing device, even if it's powered down or the battery's dead. We've already shown you how to turn on Find My iPhone, how to turn off Find My iPhone, how to use the Find My app to find your phone if it's lost in your house, and even how to find someone else's lost iPhone. Now, here’s how to find your iPhone when it’s lost, whether it’s offline, dead, or even if you don’t have Find My enabled for the iPhone. 

A cool feature in the Photos app is the geolocation tool. Let’s say you took a vacation to Mexico. You can look at a photo on a map and see all your other pictures from that trip grouped by the different places you visited. Here’s how to view photos by location on a map with the iPhone or iPad.

Location Tracking by the native Apple Weather app and the new iOS 14 Weather widget can take a toll on your iPhone's battery life. Don't worry, though; a couple of tweaks can improve your iPhone's performance and battery life without sacrificing the convenience of the Weather app and widget. To rescue your battery life from your iPhone's Weather app and Weather widget, you'll need to disable Location Tracking, then pick a default location, a city to permanently display inside the Weather app and widget. The following steps will allow you to know what the weather and temperature are at your location without pesky power and performance drains, so let's get started.

Can someone hack my iPhone? How do I know if my iPhone is hacked? We tend to think of our iPhone getting hacked as a far-fetched scenario, but large tech companies like Apple take security seriously, and pay big money to white hat (good guy) hackers to find the bugs and loopholes they can’t see. iPhones can definitely get hacked, even with the ever-increasing layers of security Apple implements to protect our devices. While it’s not worth panicking over, it’s good to take precautions and use the security features on our iPhones, and also to exercise caution to not unwittingly allow hackers access to our devices. You can do a lot to secure your iPhone and protect it from possible hackers. We've already gone over Apple security and privacy efforts, ways to protect personal data on your iPhone, and how to keep a password safe, even while you're sharing it. The 14 tips below will ensure you’ve implemented every safeguard possible; here’s how you can protect your iPhone from hackers and cybercrime, both local and remote.

Having a difficult time remembering where that picture from your spontaneous trip to the beach was taken? Or at what time you captured that beautiful sunset? The great thing about geotagging on iPhone is that you’ll never be left wondering when or where a particular photo was taken again—but for many, that might not be such a good thing. If revealing your location is a concern, you can easily turn this feature off. Here’s how to keep your camera from tracking your location on iPhone.