How to Track Location Using the iOS App (Beta) [CLOSED]?

Mobile Apps Home Assistant Companion for Apple
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I just recently started using the iOS app (latest beta) with my HA instance (.79.3). In the app, all of the component/tracker/notify checkboxes are enabled, I have turned on every toggle on the Location Settings page, and I have double checked that my privacy settings for Location Services is ‘always on’. I am receiving regular notifications of location changes from HA on my phone.

What I cannot understand is how to access this presence information within my HA server instance. I do not have any device tracker entities for my iOS device - I only have the battery sensors.

Historically, I have used the Unifi tracker on my instance, but as part of my troubleshooting iOS, I disabled that tracker and deleted my known_devices.yaml. Still, I don’t see any reference to my phone/device on the server.

Am I misunderstanding how this is supposed to work, or am I encountering a bug? I assumed that my assigned Device ID on the phone would shown up as a device tracker on the server, but that does not appear to be the case.

Thank you for any help!

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Find your phone in the known devices yaml file and make sure track: is set to true.

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That’s my concern…the know devices file does not seem to be getting created when I am just using iOS as a tracker. It does get created when I enable the UniFi tracker.

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do you have ios: in your configuration.yaml?

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I do…and now it finally appears that the entry was created - a few hours after I set everything up, which is odd. But now it is there. Thank you to those who tried to help - if I can recreate whatever caused the delay, I will report back!