How can I use my iPhone to track my wandering last weekend?
October 14, 2015 9:59 PM

I need to use my iPhone to find out where I drank last weekend. Lost some things I must have set down at a bar.

I got a bit too drunk last weekend and lost some small personal effects (cuff links etc.) but not my new iPhone. Is there a way to use my new iPhone to track down what restaurant I may have set my things down at? I had location services and wifi turned on the entire time. I have no recollection of what I did past a certain hour of night. :(

I see plenty of tracking aops, but do any work retroactively?
posted by GoingToShopping to Computers & Internet (7 answers total)
You can try: Settings->Privacy->Location Services->(Scroll waaaaay down to the bottom)->System Services->Frequent Locations->Your City Name Here. It mainly lists places you've been to a few times, but you might find some locations of interest. For example, my iPhone is listing a place I went to Saturday night as "1 visit." The range isn't super precise, but it may help narrow it down.
posted by zachlipton at 10:10 PM on October 14, 2015


Zachlipton, your idea has already turned up a likely culprit!
posted by GoingToShopping at 10:29 PM on October 14, 2015


iPhone Tracker grabs the saved location data and timestamps from the phone backup on your Mac (assuming you have a Mac) and maps it for you. It's a few years old though and may not work with current iOS versions.
posted by russm at 10:33 PM on October 14, 2015


If you use Google on your phone, you can use Google Location History if it is turned on under Activity Controls.
posted by megatherium at 2:18 AM on October 15, 2015


Unfortunately I didn't have google location history turned on and the iPhone Tracker app is too out of date to grab my info.

A valiant fight, though!
posted by GoingToShopping at 6:54 AM on October 15, 2015


Did you happen to take any photos? The photos would have metadata with location information.
posted by bluloo at 7:09 AM on October 15, 2015


Yeah, I've done this before (from pictures) with an app called Koredoko, it'll array any photos over a map.
posted by pompomtom at 3:47 PM on October 15, 2015


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