Automatically create a private record of the places you visit
Places History tracks your location on your Apple Watch or iPhone and keeps a private record of your travels. Your data is completely private, and stored only on your devices. The app balances battery life and accuracy, ensuring that your battery life is not significantly affected.
Places History runs in the background, on your Apple Watch or iPhone to record the places you visit, and the routes you have taken. The app automatically detects when you are travelling on foot, and highlights it in your timeline, showing your route, distance, and step count. You can also bookmark your favourite locations and return to them later, view the details of the walks you’ve taken, and see what the weather conditions were like during a visit.
Places History can run as a stand-alone app on your iPhone, or on your watch with a companion viewer app on your iPhone. If you have it installed on both devices, you can record your location using the watch app while conveniently accessing comprehensive place details through the iPhone app. In the event that the watch app is not actively running, the phone app seamlessly takes over the task of recording your location.
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Places History Features
- Timeline: See a timeline of your travels, including all the places you’ve visited.
- Favourites: Bookmark your favourite locations and come back to them later.
- Compass: Displays a compass view with bearing and distance to places you have visited, including a compass accuracy indicator and the sun position and elevation. You can also get directions to any place you have visited, using Apple or Google maps.
- Walk Details: View details of the walks you’ve taken, including distance, step count, and route.
- Weather Conditions: See what the weather conditions were like during a visit or journey.
- Calendar View: See all the places you visited on a specific day or month, and view activity for the month at a glance.
- Visited Places: See all the dates on which you have visited a place.
- Watch Complication: Check how long you’ve been in your present location with the watch complication.
- Nearby: View points of interest or Wikipedia articles located near a place you’ve visited
