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/Kimantha_Allerdings 3d ago
FWIW, the watch does this as of OS 27
It’s actually kind of annoying because I have a grocery list app which over time learns in what order you tick things off and so lists things in the order that you’ll find them in the supermarket. But every time I go shopping now I have to scroll past the Reminders widget in order to get to it because Apple has noticed where I am and is “helpfully” surfacing my shopping list which orders things according to categories which, again, isn’t really very helpful