I think I’m going crazy. I must be overlooking something totally trivial, but right now I can’t figure out why the location of my girlfriend’s iPhone is no longer displayed.
It worked until about 2 weeks ago.
All known location sharing settings (see pictures below) are active.
It works flawlessly on my Android.
I even created an automation in the iPhone’s own ‘Shortcuts’ app, which updates the sensors every time my girlfriend comes home: nothing happens!
The other sensors seem to be working normally as far as I can tell. When I activate/deactivate sensors, I can see them immediately in HA.
I have the same problem. I am using the iCloud3-integration to track my wife’s iPhone with more precision than the app. But the integration uses zone changes to determine when to start tracking. It gets that from the HA app.
I have been struggling with this issue for months. The app is correctly configured to always allow location in background just as it should be. When I look at the location logs in her app, she is correctly tracked at the right times. I checked after she got home from work yesterday. I opened her app and looked at her logs. She was tracked outside of the zone and at several places on the way home.
This should trigger a zone exit in HA. But when checking the HA dashboard, even from her own phone, she was still at work. About an hour later the dashboard detected her at home. Is this a bug in core?
I know this issue since I was forced to use a iPhone by my employer. Android is fine (overly fine) but iPhone has odd behavior. Sometimes I get the data per minute, someimes I can travel for 20km without any change. I suspect (cannot prove) that the gps information is not shared quick(?) enough.
Same issue here, android works fine, iPhone does not (it used to work just fine, maybe a bit lsow to update, but it worked). Has anyone managed to solve it?
A rather manual approach we chose was to open the app frequently, like once a day for a while. My (unconfirmed) assumption is that iOS keeps the app alive longer because it was opened frequently. Could also be something else that changed (like an update or alike) . However, works since then.
I read a post somewhere that iPhone requires to be triggered and having multiple apps asking for it may increase the update frequency for HA as well.
I thought about asking for a enhancement to have the app update on a self-chosen frequency … there are pro’s and con’s to that but (!!!)
It can not be automated as well, there is a service call that asks to update location but it needs to be confimed iOS side.
Seeing the extensive amoutn of posts…not sure if there is a good solution
