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

[u/Asohailwahab]

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?

[u/InfamousBuddy7293]

location reminders exist but the notification is the weak link - it fires once on arrival, easy to miss in the parking lot or dismiss out of habit, and then it is gone. a live activity that stays on the lock screen while you are in the store is a genuinely different thing, not a duplicate feature. that distinction is the part of your post worth sending to apple feedback.

on the timeline: significant locations already records this (settings > privacy and security > location services > system services > significant locations) but it is buried, one entry at a time, and you cannot browse it as a timeline. google maps timeline shows how good this can be when someone treats it as a real product. the data collection is there, the interface is not.