Help with incorrect location name. Only changed recently though……
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Info: I’ve been using Day One for years so use the ‘Today’ info every day for where I’ve been and at what times, etc. I get home and this info would report ‘Home’ for my location. So all correct.
Problem: for weeks now it has started reporting my home location as a business name that is a whole street away, further down and away from me, so no way my GPS should be reporting so far away.
Question: is there anyway to correct this final location which should be ‘Home’ or reset it to be correct? As at the moment it’s doing my head in.
thanks for your help everyone, I appreciate it. Cheers, Richard.
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Hello @fkht9h4hcw,
In our recent version, 2024.7, we introduced a new feature called “Auto-apply Point of Interest.” This feature is enabled by default and is likely responsible for the behavior you described.
Would you please disable this feature and see if it helps to resolve the issue? Simply go to the app, click on settings > location history > then toggle off the “Auto-apply Point of Interest” option.
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Hi @williamsdb
From the screenshot you sent, please click “Authorize Location,” this will direct you to your phone’s Location Services settings. Change Day One Location access to “Always.” Following this, you should be able to see the “Auto-apply Point of Interest” option when you navigate to your location settings within the Day One app.
We are currently working on making this option visible when location access is set to “When using the App,” but for now, it only works with “Always”
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The Day One app for Mac has the same issue (applying the wrong location), but it doesn’t seem to have a setting called “auto-apply point of interest.” How do I turn this feature off on the Mac?
There is a setting called “Auto Add Location” in Settings → General, but that isn’t it. Turning that setting off and then dragging a photo onto the app prompts me to apply the photo’s time and location, but the location it presents is the (almost always incorrect) point of interest.
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Hi @bdesham,
Currently, the Mac app doesn’t have an option to disable the point of interest. Our team has opened a report about this issue, and we are looking into fixing it.It looks like the team is actually planning on adding this in version 2024.9.
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hi,
i am a new user of Day One. I have the same problem as above, but none of the solutions are available on my app.
i am using a google pixel 6 android phone. Day One version is 2024.23(518)
my location settings do not have an “always” option. (See attached screenshot) There is no “Auto apply point of interest” anywhere that I can find. And I don’t know how to find “location history”
is there a way to fix this because it’s driving me nuts.
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as I said, in the phone settings for the app there is NOT an ‘Always” option available in the location settings. The only options are
only while using the app
Ask everytime
Dont allow.
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@rbpy Can you confirm you’re still seeing this issue in version 2024.25?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dayoneapp.dayone&hl=en_US&gl=US
The link above should take you to that update.
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