How to Find Your Location History on Your iPhone (Significant Locations)

If you are wondering if your iPhone is tracking or not, well, the answer to that question is that it does. As iPhone wants to further improve its AI through Siri and Apple maps, it does keep track of your frequent locations or it calls it the significant locations. It will have a list of all the locations that you frequently go to and keep it as a record to further help Apple to customise your iPhone’ experience. Here we show you how do you want to see the location history of which your iPhone has helped to track and record for you.

WHY FIND YOUR LOCATION HISTORY ON YOUR IPHONE?

Here are some of the top reasons why some people want to find your location history on your iPhone:-

  1. TO KEEP TRACK OF WHERE YOU OFTEN GO – Sometimes it helps you to keep track of places where you often go so you can refer to it later or use it as a guide to other people
  2. TO KEEP TRACK OF OTHER PEOPLE’S OFTEN VISITED PLACE – If you have access to other people’s iPhones or your spouse or children, you would be able to know which places they often go just in case if there are some emergencies.

So, if you are interested to learn how to know your significant locations on your iPhone, here are the steps.

Step 1

In your iPhone, go to Settings

Step 2

In Settings, tap at “Privacy”

Step 3

In the Privacy settings, go to “Location Services”

Step 4

At the Location Services, scroll down and tap at “System Services”

Step 5

At the System Service, go to “Significant Locations”

Step 6

At Significant Locations, look at the “History” location that your iPhone has tracked and listed here. Tap to any location to get more details

Step 7

This will show you the date and how many times you come to this place or location.

You can also see the location on a map here as shown.

So, there you have it – Simple steps on how you can find the location history on your IPhone or other people’s iPhone. Please leave us a comment below on what are the reasons do you want to know the significant locations for.

Please also read our previous article on How to Setup Your iPhone So You Can Always Find it (Enable These Top 3 Settings)

How to Setup Your iPhone So You Can Always Find it (Enable These Top 3 Settings)

If you have an iPhone, you can track it or find back your iPhone if you lost it. However, make sure the iPhone has been set up so that it is discoverable via GPS or internet and you can track and find it. Here we are going to show you the important settings that you need to know so that you can always find your iPhone if you lost it or got it stolen.

WHY SET UP YOUR IPHONE SO YOU CAN FIND IT LATER?

  1. In case your iPhone got lost – If your iPhone got lost, the settings will help you to find and track your lost iPhone
  2. In case your iPhone got stolen – In case, your iPhone got stolen, the settings will help your iPhone to be connected to the GPS or internet and in the same time, allows you to track and recover back your iPhone.

So, if you are interested to learn how to do this, here are the steps:-

  1. ENABLE LOCATION SERVICES

Step 1

 In your iPhone, go to Settings

Step 2

 In your Settings, go to “Privacy”

Step 3

At the “Privacy” settings, go to “Location Services”

Step 4

Enable the Location Services by enabling this button to green

  • ENABLE FIND MY IPHONE

Step 1

At “Location Service”, go to “Share My Location”

Step 2

Enable the “Share My Location” so your iPhone can be found using Find My iPhone app

Step 3

 At “Find My iPhone” settings, enable the “Find My iPhone” here

Your iPhone now will be discoverable and trackable using “Find My iPhone” app if you log in using your Apple ID account

  • ENABLE “ALLOW APPS TO REQUEST TO TRACK”

Step 1

In the “Privacy “ settings, tap at “Tracking”

Step 2

At “Tracking”, enable the “Allow Apps to Request to Track” here by pushing the button to green.

So, there you have it- Simple iPhone settings that you need to know to enable your iPhone to be discoverable and trackable in the future. Please leave us a comment below on what other apps that you use to find the location of your iPhone.

Please also read our previous article on 3 Ways How to Track iPhone Without Internet

How to Find Your iPhone When it is Offline

You try to find your missing iPhone but you just realized that it is probably offline and not connected to the internet. So, how you are going to find your iPhone using the “Find My iPhone” app? Fortunately, Apple has considered the possibility that your iPhone might not be connected to the internet once it is gone missing. Therefore the only way you can trace back your iPhone is using other existing technology such as Bluetooth connection. Here we are going to show you the step-by-step approach on how you can find your iPhone even when it is offline.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

The iPhone “Offline Finding” feature uses Bluetooth connection to communicate with nearby Apple devices that have the Bluetooth enabled. This is like asking other Apple devices to help track your iPhone if it is nearby them. By using this channel, your iPhone does not need to rely on the internet connection to be found by “Find My iPhone” app. As long as your iPhone is turned on, other Apple devices can help track the location of your iPhone.

So, if you are interested to know about this function, here are the details.

HOW TO ENABLE OFFLINE FINDING

By default settings, this function is enabled automatically. However, you can always check if it is enabled or not by using these steps.

Step 1

In your iPhone, go to “Settings”

Step 2

In your Settings, go to “Privacy”

Step 3

In “Privacy” settings, go to “Location Services”

Step 4

In Location Services, tap at “Share My Location”

Step 5

At “Find My” menu, tap at “Find My iPhone”

Step 6

Make sure the “Enable Offline Finding” is turned on

HOW TO FIND IPHONE WHEN IT IS OFFLINE

So, once you have that function enabled, you can confidently track your iPhone by logging into your iCloud services using either your laptop or your friend’s phone.

Here are the steps.

Step 1

Go to https://icloud.com/find

Fill in your Apple ID and password

Step 2

Choose the Apple device that you want to track

The device will show “Offline” if it is not connected to the internet

Step 3

Tap at “Notify me when found”

By enabling this, Apple will notify you when the iPhone is turned on. If there are nearby Bluetooth connection, it will track the location even though the iPhone is not connected to the internet.

So, there you have it – Simple explanation on how you can track your iPhone when it is missing or stolen even when it is offline. Please leave us a comment below on what other ways you have used to track your iPhone.

Please read our previous article on how to track your phone using Google account.