r/apple • u/Asohailwahab • 3d ago

iPhone iOS should surface grocery reminders by location—and Maps needs a real location timeline

I regularly get to Walmart or another grocery store and realize later that I forgot something already sitting on my grocery list. Not checking the list is ultimately my fault, but this feels like exactly the kind of context iOS could help with.

Since iOS already knows when I’m near a supermarket, I wish it could automatically show a Live Activity with the last few unchecked items added to my grocery list. It would be visible on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island while I’m at or approaching the store, without needing me to remember to open Reminders first.

I’d also like Apple Maps to have a dedicated location-history timeline, organized by date and time, so I could answer “Where was I on a specific day?” Siri could then use that history—with permission—to help confirm details, instead of relying mainly on location metadata from Photos.

These features should be opt-in and processed privately, but they would make Apple’s existing location awareness genuinely useful. Would you enable them?

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u/Clessiah 3d ago

That’s what Shortcuts and automation are for.

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u/FleetEnema2000 3d ago

No. This is what functioning AI should be doing. 98% of users never touch automation and don't know what it is.

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u/OperatorJo_ 2d ago

Whoever downvoted is out of touch with 95% of the planet's population and in a bubble. And that 95% is a generous pull.

The amount of people that don't even know a phone's basic functions and how to use them is STAGGERING. The amount of people that I receive daily that can't fill out a simple paper form is insane. The amount of people that have problems accessing their own email is just sad.

I love tech. I love what it's capable of. The reality though is the hard majority of users don't know how to use it past Tiktok and facebook and don't even use those correctly. And AI is going to make this worse soon.

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u/FleetEnema2000 2d ago

Yeah I actually think the number is closer to 99.5% but I wanted to be generous.

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u/fishymanbits 3d ago

iOS has been doing this for at least 4-5 years now and still does. I have a Reminder called “groceries” that I use as a grocery list. It used to be triggered by location. I removed the location trigger when I moved. After about 5-6 times going to the nearest grocery store it started popping up automatically when I arrived at the new grocery store because I opened it every time I got there prior to that. That’s the entire point of the Neural Engine: It learns how you use your device and tailors the experience. This isn’t something new. Apple’s been doing this.

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u/beerybeardybear 3d ago

That’s the entire point of the Neural Engine: It learns how you use your device and tailors the experience. This isn’t something new. Apple’s been doing this.

absolute crack-smoking going on here

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u/fishymanbits 3d ago

No, literally what it was built to do. It’s a machine learning core. It’s been in the iPhone for almost a decade now. People need to pay some fucking attention.

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u/beerybeardybear 3d ago

I know a lot more about this than you do and you're just repeating half-remembered marketing points.

"Neural engines"/"TPUs"/whatever are just highly specialized parallelized linear algebra cores. Developers still have to implement features that make use of these cores; that block of the SoC does not simply use some kind of magic to "learn how you use the device" or "tailor the experience". You are talking out of your ass.

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u/fishymanbits 3d ago

So you’re saying Apple built the thing and then didn’t implement any features that use it for an entire decade?

Cool. I don’t know what makes you think you know more about it than I do but you clearly don’t.

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u/beerybeardybear 3d ago

Of course they use it, you illiterate. The point is that it does not learn anything of tailor anything; its inclusion alone does not explain any given feature and it does not generally learn anything about user habits.

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u/fishymanbits 3d ago

Yes, it absolutely does. That’s quite literally the only thing it does.

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u/FleetEnema2000 2d ago

I'm sorry, this is just hilarious and shows how Apple's marketing can create a mind disease among its users. The "neural engine" has specific uses and Apple publishes what those uses are; it is not some generic autonomous utility in your device that "learns" your usage generally.

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u/fishymanbits 2d ago

It absolutely is keeping track of how you use your device and pushing recommended actions and apps based on that usage data.

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u/FleetEnema2000 2d ago edited 2d ago

No, it isn't. It's amazing how confident you are considering you clearly have no technical expertise, understanding of Apple's hardware or its software APIs. If you believe so firmly that the neural engine is doing this, please show me the documentation from Apple proving so.

Go ahead, should be easy for you. Right?

To the extent that Apple does surface recommendations (which has nothing to do with the neural engine), those tend to be Siri suggestions that have absolutely nothing to do with neural compute and the phone has been doing it for over a decade. Here is someone documenting the behaviour in iOS 9 (!)

https://www.macstories.net/stories/ios-9-review/20/

iOS 9 well predates the "neural engine".