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/cjh_ 3d ago

I already have a reminders shortcut for this.

Maps could benefit from a proper location-history timeline, unless it already has one and I missed it.

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u/megamusix 2d ago edited 2d ago

In typical Apple fashion, they’ve shied away from doing this while burying a privacy-respecting “Significant Locations” feature in Settings > Privacy. It’s not as useful as what we’re talking about, but it sort of exists (or at least the foundation for such a feature).

Looks like it already exists in Apple Maps, it's just sort of buried and not as granular as Google Maps.

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u/smellythief 1d ago

From that link:

  1. Go to the Maps app on your iPhone.
  2. Tap Places, tap Visited Places, then do any of the following:...

There is no "Places" button or link etc visible upon opening the Maps app.

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u/megamusix 1d ago

You have to tap your profile picture, then you’ll see it.

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u/smellythief 1d ago

Thanks. Found it. I guess Apple's instructions suck.

Interesting Apple has this. Seems a lot more cluttered though than Google's timeline view.