Does iOS 7 learn frequently traveled to locations by itself? I awoke this morning to see under 'Today' on notification centre, the current travel time to the town where I work. My place of work is not in my phone anywhere. Also once I arrived it disappeared.
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iOS 7 Travel Time
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It's pretty smart, and for a lot of people who installed it on day 1, it'll really start to develop now. I'm noticing it's recognising where I go on Mondays and Tuesdays, and telling me how long it'll take to get there.
Says it in the notification center. Right now mine says, "Right now, it would take you about 8 minutes to drive to work".
Do you forget how long it takes you to get to work
seems pointless function.I know it takes me 30 mins to get to work i don't need my phone to tell me
omg and if you go into the settings of frequent locations, it maps your whole life!
Not that it wasn't doing that anyway
It takes some time to show up (week to 10 days to establish a pattern) and only displays if you are away from your recorded locations.
Do you forget how long it takes you to get to work
I know it takes me 30 mins to get to work i don't need my phone to tell me
The idea is, when you are driving on the same route to work you won't know how long it takes, because it does depend on the traffic, doesn't it? Well, I assume the phone will figure that out for you and warn before you start your journey.
Works for me in the UK.
Make sure you have Traffic turned on as well as Frequent Locations.
Exactly right. If traffic is heavy due to an accident, etc. then it will tell you and you will see a longer time to get to work. You can then plan an alternative route. Seems very useful to me.
Mine is consistently 5 minutes longer than it actually takes so I am assuming it uses speed limits to work out how long it will take rather than learning how fast you drive.
Do you forget how long it takes you to get to work
I know it takes me 30 mins to get to work i don't need my phone to tell me
Do you walk down an empty dirt road or something?
A drive to my work takes somewhere between 25 and 70 minutes, depending on the traffic. Knowing what the current number is sure isn't pointless.
Does iPhone 4 not have Frequent Locations - History? I don't see that under my system services menu.
Yep, have it turned on along with frequent locations...and home and work locations are already listed I'll give this a couple more days . If traffic info does not show up I'm going to kill it. I'm sure it's draining my battery much faster with no gain for me
I had my first "time to drive home" today after around 2 weeks of recording locations. Based on my experience, you need to be at a particular location for a minimum of 2 hours before it registers - under 2 hours doesn't count. And Frequent Locations has had no impact on my battery life.
its a shame that all this learning on the phone for "frequent locations" has to be re-done if you get an other phone ...
all that info should be cloud stored on icloud (google now is all cloud base and remebers what you did even if you are on an other device).
all that info should be cloud stored on icloud (google now is all cloud base and remebers what you did even if you are on an other device).
Do you forget how long it takes you to get to work
I know it takes me 30 mins to get to work i don't need my phone to tell me
For me, not really because I'm barely 2km from where I work and there is little to no traffic. If I lived in a highly populated city it takes the average commute time and includes traffic data if it's reported to be higher/lower than normal.
Surely all the data crunching is happening server-side, so there must be a copy somewhere. And wouldn't restoring from a previous backup retain the data on the phone?
I use iCloud for everything except the backup ... I dont know it every iCloud user uses the backup feature,
I still think that the Frequent Locations should be sync automatic to iCloud without the need of doing a backup of the phone.
I've actually tested this unofficially. It gave me about 20 minutes more when disabled. It's pretty well polished.