Vital Locations is a feature in iPhones and iCloud-connected devices that helps track places visited and how often. The resulting data is used to identify locations that are important to iPhone users and provide personalized services such as location memory in Photos or better traffic routing. While this sounds like Apple tracks your movements and can store data, the phone manufacturer says otherwise.
As disclosed by Apple, Key Location data is end-to-end encrypted and cannot be read by the phone manufacturer. However, if you want to control this feature, here’s how:
How to enable key locations
By enabling Important Location, you access location-related information on apps like Photos, Calendar, and Maps. Here’s how to enable it:
Step 1: Launch the Settings app from your iPhone’s home screen.
Step 2: Scroll down the list of options and tap Privacy.
Step 3: Select Location Services.
Step 4: Scroll down the page and select System Services at the bottom of the list.
Step 5: Scroll down the page and select Important Locations.
Step 6: Once you tap on this option, you will have to authenticate yourself. Authentication can be through Touch ID, Face ID or through your passcode.
Step 7: On the new page, check if the toggle next to Important Locations is grayed out. If it is, tap it to turn it on.
By turning on Important Locations, you’ll see some of your frequently visited locations in History over a period of time.
How to turn off important locations on iPhone
If you’ve been using your iPhone for a while, chances are Important Locations has been turned on and you may have saved locations. Here’s how to turn it off:
Step 1: Launch the Settings app from your iPhone’s home screen.
Step 2: Scroll down the list of options and tap Privacy.
Step 3: Select Location Services.
Step 4: Scroll down the page and select System Services at the bottom of the list.
Step 5: Scroll down the page and select Important Locations.
Step 6: Once you tap on this option, you will have to authenticate yourself. Authentication can be via Touch ID, Face ID, or a passcode.
Step 7: On the new page, check if the toggle next to Important Locations is green. If it is, tap it to turn it off.
Step 8: Tap Disable from the pop-up to confirm turning off Important Locations.
Turning off Important Location doesn’t delete your location history, it just prevents your device from saving information about your location. To clear location history, follow the steps below.
How to delete important location history
There are two lines of action that you can take when deleting your Important Location History. You can remove a specific location from the list or delete the entire list. Here’s how it works:
Remove specific location from important location history
To remove a specific location from your Important Location History, here are the steps to follow:
Step 1: Launch the Settings app from your iPhone’s home screen.
Step 2: Scroll down the list of options and tap Privacy.
Step 3: Select Location Services.
Step 4: Scroll down the page and select System Services at the bottom of the list.
Step 5: Scroll down the page and select Important Locations.
Step 6: In History, select one of the cities under this banner.
Step 7: At the top right of the map, tap Edit.
Step 8: Click the red dash next to the address you need to remove.
Step 9: Click Delete to delete the address.
Delete all important location history
To delete your entire Important Location History, here’s what you should do:
Step 1: Launch the Settings app from your iPhone’s home screen.
Step 2: Scroll down the list of options and tap Privacy.
Step 3: Select Location Services.
Step 4: Scroll down the page and select System Services at the bottom of the list.
Step 5: Scroll down the page and select Important Locations.
Step 6: Scroll down the list of options and tap on Clear history.
Step 7: You will receive a message asking you to confirm your action, tap Clear history again.
Fix location-based reminders on iPhone
When Critical Location is turned off on iPhone, the performance of location-dependent apps or features on the device may be affected. One example is location-based reminders. However, if Key Location is enabled and location-based reminders aren’t working, you may need to try other fixes.
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