Location reminders ios 7 unreliable

[iMore Question]

Hi,

I have been trying to get IOS 7 location based reminders to work reliablily with no luck. I have followed your guide ,reinstalled a fresh copy of ios 7 & checked all settints.
I have contacted apple support with know helpful info, but to escalate it another department. besides your form I haven't found any helpful info. I don't think it is a used feature.
I live in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada so it may not be supported.


Thank you.

 

[Peligro911]

Hi,

I have been trying to get IOS 7 location based reminders to work reliablily with no luck. I have followed your guide ,reinstalled a fresh copy of ios 7 & checked all settints.
I have contacted apple support with know helpful info, but to escalate it another department. besides your form I haven't found any helpful info. I don't think it is a used feature.
I live in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada so it may not be supported.


Thank you.

Might be a canada thing mine works fine just make sure all your location services are turned on

 

[Jaguarr40]

It may not be supported and that might have been the first question to have asked them. If supported and you are setting up a reminder like call John when I get home and you have locations services on and your info with address and everything set up as a contact as well, It should work fine. I am still on a a 4S waiting on the 5S but on iOS 7 and use location based reminders quite often flawlessly. Hope all works out for you.

 

[Lfcou]

This worked for both of my iPhones (5 & 5s)
Go to Settings - General - Reset
Press "Reset Location & Privacy"
Attempt to establish a Location based reminder using Siri
Siri will tell you that you need to enable reminders in "Settings - Privacy - Location Services"
Once Reminders is enabled return to Siri and establish a Location based reminder. You should see the hollow arrow geofence graphic in top information bar. Your reminder should alert as in ios 6 now.

Over several days of setting reminders to alert when "arriving/departing home or work" the alerts have become more precise...meaning instead of alerting within a half mile of destination/departure point the reminder alerts more like 300 to 500 ft. of the destination/departure point.

IF you open the reminder app you will have to repeat the above process. I've put the reminder app in a folder with other system apps I don't use and pushed it to my back page. I just don't use the reminder app now.