Hey all!
I've never used the Check-in feature besides just a test once, but I was giving it another look as iOS randomly came up with a notification about it.
I noticed an odd issue: apparently you can't pick a contact as a destination, even if that contact has a valid address saved.
Steps:
1. Add a valid address to a contact, e.g. John Doe, through the Contacts app
2. Ensure that the address is indeed valid — it should show a mini-map which, when tapped, should open the contact's address within Maps
3. In any Messages chat via iMessage, tap the plus, then More, then Check In, then Edit
4. At the top, pick "When I arrive", then Change
5. Type "John Doe" and... it's not there. It will list literally all kinds of things regardless of distance. For instance I'm in central Italy and it offers me a "Viale John F. Kennedy" in a city nearby which is the only thing that makes sense, then a bunch of airports across the world named after one John or another, a John Radcliffe Hospital in the UK, the Johns Hopkins University in the US, and the whole city of Johannesburg in ZA. No trace of my contact John Doe, however.
You can obviously search for the addrses manually, but you might need to look it up from the contact's details first.
Am I missing something obvious, or is this actually a missing feature? It sounds like a relatively common use case.
I've never used the Check-in feature besides just a test once, but I was giving it another look as iOS randomly came up with a notification about it.
I noticed an odd issue: apparently you can't pick a contact as a destination, even if that contact has a valid address saved.
Steps:
1. Add a valid address to a contact, e.g. John Doe, through the Contacts app
2. Ensure that the address is indeed valid — it should show a mini-map which, when tapped, should open the contact's address within Maps
3. In any Messages chat via iMessage, tap the plus, then More, then Check In, then Edit
4. At the top, pick "When I arrive", then Change
5. Type "John Doe" and... it's not there. It will list literally all kinds of things regardless of distance. For instance I'm in central Italy and it offers me a "Viale John F. Kennedy" in a city nearby which is the only thing that makes sense, then a bunch of airports across the world named after one John or another, a John Radcliffe Hospital in the UK, the Johns Hopkins University in the US, and the whole city of Johannesburg in ZA. No trace of my contact John Doe, however.
You can obviously search for the addrses manually, but you might need to look it up from the contact's details first.
Am I missing something obvious, or is this actually a missing feature? It sounds like a relatively common use case.