Home Assistant ios app not updating location

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I’m considering a workaround using the Shortcuts app in iOS, and using the iPhone’s location to trigger a Personal Automation to update the location. What I need to figure out is, what action I should take…? I can call a service using Home Assistant, fire an event, or just about anything. What should that Shortcut do?

I feel I shouldn’t have to go this route, but it’s the only thing I can think of that might work consistently.

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There’s a generic update sensors action that will update your location too.

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I have tried that, but it’s not working… likely because I haven’t allowed Shortcuts app access to location info “Always.” I’ll change that and update this thread…

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I would add your details to the bug tracker here: iPhone 12 (ios 14.6) keeps resetting location access from ‘always’ to ‘on use’ by itself · Issue #1697 · home-assistant/iOS (github.com)

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I reset my iPhone and it seemed to work.

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Is anybody still experiencing this? My HA shows the device home but sensors always update, even shows the address. Seems it doesn’t register when I leave but updates as soon as I’m home (hence always showing Im home). iphone 14 here. The sensors work so well, the second I click “focus” or plug in the phone it updates. So close but I can’t get the location to update when I leave.

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Is your HA server publicly accessible by your phone?

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It wasn’t but now it is. Testing today looks promising. Updating Home/Away correctly today. Thank you!

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I use this script to send request_location_update to my sons iphone… but its not working!
What am I doing wrong?

I use this:

alias: Request Location Update
sequence:
  - service: notify.mobile_app_iphone
    data:
      message: request_location_update
mode: single
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Elaborate.

Does the app permissions on that phone allow for location tracking and running in the background?

You can force a device to attempt to report its location by sending a special notification. The notification is not visible to the device owner and only works when the app is running or in the background.

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Yes it does work, the trigger “Significant Location Change” is often the Last Update Trigger…
But when I send the request location update the last update trigger wont update to “Push Notification” and the location wont updat according to how it should work here:

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