Looks like backing up and restoring from backup doesn't take your frequent location data with it, as it's not showing up on my new 5s this morning 
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Outsmarted by a phone - frequent locations
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Four generations does not equal four years. The iPhone 5S was released two weeks ago, so with one generation per year, the iPhone 4 came out three years ago...
I've moved to university so it keeps telling me that it'll take 3 and a half hours to drive home
I've moved to university so it keeps telling me that it'll take 3 and a half hours to drive home
Give it time and it will learn you're now living at a new location and stop doing that.
Hahah. I love when people change the argument to make themselves right. Its 3 years old dude, get over it. Years ≠ generations.
I don't believe it does, or at least it's never done it for me. Gotta check it.
It's been really accurate for me since it started kicking in during the beta. Scared the hell out of me when I saw it. Like when I realized why things are underlined in my messages. Kind of creepy.
Is this where we are headed?
My question, do you need to have Work and Home saved in Address book? Or how would it recognize what is a location for Work/Home? I suppose the time of arrival to each position is not decisively, as you might have a job with shift works etc.
Any thoughts?
EDIT: Thanks Tyler! I've updated work address. I'm pretty excited whether it will be working, will keep you posted
Any thoughts?
EDIT: Thanks Tyler! I've updated work address. I'm pretty excited whether it will be working, will keep you posted
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Yes, you have to add yourself in your contacts, and save those addresses as your home and work addresses.
I wasn't trying to be right, I wasn't even the one that said it was 4 years old. But it is 4 generations old technology.
iPhone 4= A4 single core processor/512MB RAM iOS 4 Geekbench 3: 212/211
iPhone 4S=A5 dual core /512MB iOS 5 Geekbench 3: 218/413
iPhone 5 =A6 dual core/1GB iOS 6 (& 5c) Geekbench 3: 723/1305
iPhone 5s=A7 64 bit dual core/1GB + M7 coprocessor iOS 7 Geekbench 3: 1411/2554
The A6 added quad-core graphics processing also. There is a more than triple speed jump between iPhone 5 and previous generation iPhones. iPhone 5s (A7) is getting a big gain in speed over benchmarks of iPhone 5 also. (Geekbench scores are with iOS 7.0.2 on all 4 devices. The second number is the Multi Core Score, which is where the 4 really falls behind. To see how long it takes the 4 to do run the test see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kapq48cTLo (skip to about 3 mins. in))
The point is, the single core A4 in the iPhone 4 just isn't enough power for iOS 7.
Haha, it's always nice to see people hit rock bottom and decide to just keep on digging to see if they get out of it...
Thank you, i've never heard of this feature. Just checked and this service is not available on the iPhone 4
Wondered why I had not seen this haha. Damn there will be so many features when I get the 6 will be like Christmas
My phone only tells me how long it would take to get home. It hasn't picked up on me going to classes every day at the same time, I even have the locations and classes set up in the calendar. I'm willing to bet it'll start telling me when the fall semester ends, lol.
benji888 you are 100% correct 4 generations old.
The commute time has not shown up on my phone yet, i have has iOS7 since launch day as well.
It takes about two weeks of running through a consistent routine for it to start working (ie M-F go to work at 8:00am). If you turn off the frequent locations and turn it back on again, the two week timeframe starts over. So leave it on, and let it keep learning, otherwise, you're setting yourself back to square one.
Any chance you have a different address associated with home? Under your name in contacts...
Worked on my iPhone 5, not on my 5s
I loved the traffic notifications. I have been using iOS7 since the 1st beta, and it worked great on my iPhone 5. I restored my new 5s from an icloud backup and it has NEVER worked on this new phone. I've done the same things...turned it off and back on, etc. No joy. Bummer, because I found it very useful.
I loved the traffic notifications. I have been using iOS7 since the 1st beta, and it worked great on my iPhone 5. I restored my new 5s from an icloud backup and it has NEVER worked on this new phone. I've done the same things...turned it off and back on, etc. No joy. Bummer, because I found it very useful.
The frequent locations feature showed up for the first time in the notification centre on my iPhone 5 today.
I looked at my phone at 17:01 and it said it would take 17 minutes to get home. I thought it was talking crap 'cause I rarely ever get home before half past five... I got home at 17:18 on the dot.
I'm under no illusions it will be this accurate every time
....this feature hasn't showed up once on my phone and although I do have Frequent Locations turned on (I can see the 2 most frequent places listed - one is where I work and one is where I live) couldn't figure out why it would just not show up on my phone?!
You sir - are the man!!
You've just enlightened me as to why its not working on my phone!
So to clarify - I already have myself added in the contacts as 'Me' and I have put in who my family members are (so that Siri knows when you ask him to 'Call my sister'), do I then just add my home address as 'home' and my work address as 'work', in order to get this to work?
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....this feature hasn't showed up once on my phone and although I do have Frequent Locations turned on (I can see the 2 most frequent places listed - one is where I work and one is where I live) couldn't figure out why it would just not show up on my phone?!
You sir - are the man!!
You've just enlightened me as to why its not working on my phone!
So to clarify - I already have myself added in the contacts as 'Me' and I have put in who my family members are (so that Siri knows when you ask him to 'Call my sister'), do I then just add my home address as 'home' and my work address as 'work', in order to get this to work?
Yes, that's exactly what you do.
How long does it take for it to start showing up in the notification center? I have the new 5s since launch day. Still no traffic.