adam044
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No none of them provide anything beneficial except for frequent locations if you really must know how long it will take you to get home.
Can you even tell me what they do because I don't think you could.
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Outsmarted by a phone - frequent locations
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No none of them provide anything beneficial except for frequent locations if you really must know how long it will take you to get home.
Can you even tell me what they do because I don't think you could.
I don't think so. I believe it would be minimal because it's simply using info collected by the phone in normal usage. It seems to upload the info when you're not using the phone, so often that will be on wifi, etc.
Sure:
Cell Network Search uses your location to look for nearby cell towers for you to connect to. Otherwise, no calls.
Compass Calibration: pretty obvious. Your phone uses your location data to see which way your iPhone is pointing to calibrate the compass.
Diagnostics and usage: no location stuff here, it seems. But it's for running tests, keeping an eye on how the phone is going, and keeping a list of anything that goes wrong. There's another setting where you can view these.
Location Based iAds: obvious, again. Adverts tailored to your location, so adverts in French if you're in France.
Popular Near Me: it's a section in the App Store.
Setting Time Zone: You can choose it manually but your phone will look at your current location and adjust the time accordingly if you are in a different country.
Traffic: obvious.
Wi-Fi Networking: Part of the triangulation for your location involves looking local wifi hotspots. It's why if you're in Maps with wifi off, Maps will suggest you turn on wifi to get a stronger signal.
Frequent locations: this is a menu that contains all your frequent locations, which enable the very thing we're talking about in this thread.
I keep them all on.
adam044
macrumors 65816
Pretty good I'm surprised!
Except:
You can turn off call search network with no effect on making calls.
Compass calibration does not need to be on I don't have it on and my phone navigates and finds me with 100% accuracy
Setting time zone is only useful if you travel to different time zones. Your time will be set by your carrier.
Question about frequent locations. You say it store frequent locationS. So will it show say work to home work to school or something like that? Or just 1 at a time?
Frequent locations/Traffic has never worked for me in any version of iOS. I finally just turned off location services all together in hopes the iPhone5 makes it thru a day on a full charge. I've managed to make it home with 5 and 10% battery left. Even with background app downloads, automatic updates, LTE, and parallax all off I barely make it thru a day. Most of the time it sits in my pocket asleep. With iOS 7 installed I find I use my phone less & less. 🙁 And we thought Maps were a buggy mess in iOS 6 hahahahaha. Jony Ive proved us wrong it truly can get worse a lot worse. I wish I could post a screenshot but my work blocks them. Usage shows 51 minutes and I'm already down to 32% battery left 😱 One would naturally think oh the battery is EOL but nope condition is still new and only registering 61 cycles.
iOS 7 truly proves quality control has left Apple. It's all about keeping deadlines to match refresh dates and $$$ value of the name brand.
iOS 7 truly proves quality control has left Apple. It's all about keeping deadlines to match refresh dates and $$$ value of the name brand.
Bugeyeblue
macrumors 6502a
This feature just started working for me today. I've been using ios 7 since official release day.
Same here, so that makes it 16 days of active use before it felt confident enough about my commute to suggest routes automatically. I suspect many will start to see it presently.
As per my earlier question it doesn't understand public transportation, but at least the feature works.
As per my earlier question it doesn't understand public transportation, but at least the feature works.
It has nothing to do with calls. If enabled, the phone will send information about nearby cell towers it can "see" at your position to Apple. They maintain a central database of cell tower locations which can be used by your and other phones to determine the location quickly (without waiting for a GPS fix).
In fact it allows the use of your location to calculate true north.
It allows the phone to include location data when it sends diagnostic information to Apple.
It allows the phone to send anonymized information to Apple about apps your are using at a specific location. This is how Apple populates the section in the store.
Not really. This option periodically sends your location and speed to Apple while driving (in anonymized form). This is used to build the traffic map.
Similar to cellular networks above, this option allows the phone to send information about nearby WLAN basestations to Apple's central database to aid location by WLAN.
Some of them have serious privacy implications (especially in light of the fact that anonymization can often be easily circumvented using modern data mining methods).
I've always had various Location Services enabled on my 4S as well as apps that make use of them so from my point of view there's been no serious battery drain from having Frequent Locations on. It's business as usual.
Natutally if someone has never used them before they might notice a difference in battery longevity after enabling these.
Same here. I installed iOS 7 at 1:05pm on the launch day. The feature started showing up yesterday. I guess it must now have enough information.
Being that I mostly take public transportation, it would be nice to have the option of showing the status of some transit lines. But the MTA doesn't provide that for my lines yet, so I'll look forward to this in the future.
adam044
macrumors 65816
A bit of follow up and partial guide:
I added my home address and work address under my details, that's pretty much it although it won't work right away.
I did this yesterday and noticed when I got home today it was showing me how long until I got home. That's because I didn't check my phone before I left but checked it before it updated at home, thus the overlap. At least I know it works and hopefully it will work Monday morning.
I added my home address and work address under my details, that's pretty much it although it won't work right away.
I did this yesterday and noticed when I got home today it was showing me how long until I got home. That's because I didn't check my phone before I left but checked it before it updated at home, thus the overlap. At least I know it works and hopefully it will work Monday morning.
Hustler1337
macrumors 68000
Each new generation of the iPhone since the 4 has been disappointing for me and not enough to warrant an 'upgrade'. Add to the fact that they're not cheap and being a student with little money, i'm ok keeping my 4. It does it's job just fine, albeit slightly slower than the 5/5S. It's only now that i'm considering upgrading to the 5S soon. 😉
The 5/5s murders the 4 in performance, you will notice a very DRAMATIC increase in performance
benji888
macrumors 68000
This video shows just how dramatic (skip to 3 mins. in) http://youtu.be/-kapq48cTLo (geekbench 3 performance score with iOS 7.0.2 on iPhone 4, 4S, 5, 5c, 5s)
Just noticed this # I have entered my work address under 'me' in my contacts, and have since before beta 1. It's just a bit odd!
Turned mine off because I don't really need to know how long it takes me to get home 😛 It's a cool feature though.
espressoroast
macrumors member
This feature also took a while to kick in for me but it is neat, now that it works.
My gripe is that it always shows driving times despite the fact that I selected walking on the Maps setting as my preferred directions.
Any ideas how can I fix this?
My gripe is that it always shows driving times despite the fact that I selected walking on the Maps setting as my preferred directions.
Any ideas how can I fix this?
I'm on the 5s and have never seen it 🙁 That said I work shift work over a 5 week rotating pattern, and I also get to work - pick up a job car then often spend most of my day driving around. I'm guessing the chances are that I will never see it.
GreyOS
macrumors 68040
Using this logic, when product x+1 is released a year after product x, product x is now 2 generations old and therefore 2 years old. LOL.
squeakr
macrumors 68000
Generations do not equal years. There could in actuality be several generations released within any given year. Your quoted text makes no mention of years, so your perception of the quoted logic equating to years is flawed.