I have an iPhone 6. When iOS 9 came out I did a clean install and restore a few days after it launched.
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iPhone 9 (.0.2) Traffic/Proactive: When should I start expecting my travel time alerts?
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I have an iPhone 6. When iOS 9 came out I did a clean install and restore a few days after it launched.
Cool and thanks. That means it probably takes 2-3 weeks.
I found this in an old forum post:
"Source for this apparently random 2 week value?
Myself and many other people.
I've been using iOS 7 since day 1 of beta 1 (June 10, 2013). Two weeks went by, and nothing. The first day of week 3, bam, traffic info. Had to restore about half way through the beta process. Two weeks, nothing, day 1 of week 3, traffic info. Restored when the GM came out. Nothing for two weeks, traffic info the first day of week 3.
It takes time to learn your traffic patterns, it needs to know what you do monday, tuesday, wednesday, etc..to make sure it's not sporadic behavior or one-off trips to different locations. First week starts the data, second week confirms it."
There is an option under privacy>location services>improve maps which sends info to Apple. Turn that off and you are good. Also, if you go under privacy>location services>system services>frequent locations, that shows you the history of where all you have been at. This is what I think traffic info is based off of.
I'm glad I came back and visited today.
Two weeks now, still no Apple travel eta. My morning commute is regular. I leave the same place at roughly the same time for the same destination. iOS already knows to have Music on tap and ready to go. Evening commute can be to several different destinations, so I accept that part.
FWIW: 6S+ restored from an iCloud backup of a 6, from around June. Which was restored from an iCloud backup of a 6+ from like January. Long story short, this iCloud backup is a derivative of my backups since my iPhone 3G.
I'm going to look into that ETA app now.
Edit: I just noticed that Share My Location was set to one of my previous device names. I've since deleted all of those previous ones and set it to my current 6S+. I don't know if that will have any bearing or not.
Two weeks now, still no Apple travel eta. My morning commute is regular. I leave the same place at roughly the same time for the same destination. iOS already knows to have Music on tap and ready to go. Evening commute can be to several different destinations, so I accept that part.
FWIW: 6S+ restored from an iCloud backup of a 6, from around June. Which was restored from an iCloud backup of a 6+ from like January. Long story short, this iCloud backup is a derivative of my backups since my iPhone 3G.
I'm going to look into that ETA app now.
Edit: I just noticed that Share My Location was set to one of my previous device names. I've since deleted all of those previous ones and set it to my current 6S+. I don't know if that will have any bearing or not.
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Did you look under privacy>location services>system services>frequent locations and does it have a history of your locations?
I did, and it's pretty much spot-on for my travel locales since getting the 6S+.
Is this really useful? If you do it for two weeks, you should already now about how long the average commute is. If it's really having to figure it out, without giving accurate traffic updates, then what does the service even provide?
So I see 2 types of ETAs for my commutes:
1. Pull down notification center and you will see something on that screen more likely when you are on the road.
2. I also get map push style notification saying how long it will take for me to get to a destination I frequent at that particular time frame.
So when there's a huge traffic backup on your normal route, you have a warning to go a different way.
These are what I'm expecting but not receiving yet.
I'll be honest, I never even knew this feature existed, but am I to understand it uses live GPS, and traffic monitoring to determine if their is traffic on your " normal " routes? Is that the purpose of it " learning" , or do you manually input a location say, work, and home. I know on my android ( i'm newly moved to apple ) i setup my home address, my work address, and any time i would begin to take those routes, the phone would tell me their is traffic, and offer an alternate route. Is it something similar ?
Just got my first travel notification last night. This morning, it was spot on, to-the-minute accurate.
(Off topic but funny) Yesterday, used Apple Maps against Google (on my GFs Moto X). They picked the same route, however Apple suggested that the trip would take 90+ minutes, compared to Google at 30. Google also shouted over Siri every chance it got, lol.
(Off topic but funny) Yesterday, used Apple Maps against Google (on my GFs Moto X). They picked the same route, however Apple suggested that the trip would take 90+ minutes, compared to Google at 30. Google also shouted over Siri every chance it got, lol.
My frequent locations is working this AM too.
What type of notifications do you get?
Just the GPS icon along with "Right now, it would take you about 21 minutes to drive home." Nothing in Proactive yet (is anything supposed to show there?).
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Ok, that's what I have in the notification shade too.
The travel time notification is a bit curious too. I got one today, 50 minutes before every. With a 20 minute drive time.
The travel time notification is a bit curious too. I got one today, 50 minutes before every. With a 20 minute drive time.
Had my iPhone 6S since launch day and still no directions home. I restored from a 5S backup. Which has caused cetain apps to show up zoomed, like wallet. Seems like theres some bad corruption going on when restoring form a backup of older devices.
My 5S showed directions properly in Notification center.
My 5S showed directions properly in Notification center.
I got a 6S on launch day and restored it from a 6 backup and I just started getting proactive eta notifications two days ago when i was getting them pretty consistently on my 6 so it takes a couple weeks for the phone to collect the data.
i got travel alerts this morning, but it was way off. or it doesn't account for my speeding.....