iOS Day One not recording, logging or listing locations
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For me this is a continuing saga. For some reason I often don’t see locations listed when I write a new journal entry.
Today, for example, I went out to buy some stuff. When I got home, I went to add the entry but the location of the store wasn’t in it. In fact, all it had was “home”.
Later, I went out again to a different store. Same thing when I got home. Only have “home” listed, but twice now.
I’ve gone through the help pages, the Google AI search thingy and so on. All settings are turned on, the iPhone’s Location Services is active, Day One is turned on for it and so on.
Is there anything else that I could have missed?
And as for adding locations manually, on the iPhone it’s nigh on impossible to do as the map window that opens is extremely small, is difficult to scroll and pan and often hard pressing on a location simply does not work.
If, however, I make an entry on the Mac Mini desktop version and do the same, the window is larger and using the mouse to zoom in and to pan around the map is easy. And right clicking on a location asks if I want to add it.
Back to the iOS app. When adding a location, you get options like recently visited, near me and so on. Often, what I want to add isn’t there. Or if it is and I add it, it will revert back to another location that’s nearby.
It’s an exercise in frustration. I don’t know if it’s iOS or the app itself that gives me the runaround.
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Oh, I forgot to mention. When I tap on edit location, I type in the name of the desired location, say, “Joe’s Bar and Grill”, it doesn’t list it, but I know that it exists as I’ve been there many times before. It shows up in both Apple and Google Maps.
Thanks again.
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Just out of curiosity, what happens if you add a journal entry while still physically at one of those locations? Does the journal entry have the desired location data?
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Hey Steve, sometimes it’s accurate, sometimes it’s not. The way it works tends to vary.
The best way for me to get a fix on a location is to take a photo then use the metadata in the photo to create a location for the entry.
Doing it on the Mac later on seems to be the more accurate way as I can more easily scroll around the map to pinpoint my location.
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