Location Fix User Manual

Objective

Location Fix is a simple way to keep track of all the places that matter to you — a favourite trailhead, where you parked, a restaurant a friend recommended — and to share them with other people. Drop a pin on the map, add a photo and a few notes, organise your places by subject, and route to any of them with a tap. Everything syncs across your devices with iCloud.

What Location Fix can do

Drop a pin anywhere on the map to store a favourite location.
Add rich detail to any location — name, address, photo, notes, subject (group) and a pin colour.
See the current weather for a place right in its map callout.
Switch the map between Standard, Satellite and Hybrid.
Organise your locations into collapsible subject groups, and search them in the list.
Route to any location using Apple Maps, Google Maps or Waze.
Share a location — with its photo and details — with other people and other apps.
Save locations sent from other apps, including a geotagged photo.
Drop a pin or navigate to a saved place hands-free with Siri and Shortcuts.
Choose your app icon, and use the app in seven languages.
Keep everything in sync across your iPhone and iPad with iCloud.

Quick start — save your first location

There are two ways to add a location. Touch and hold anywhere on the map to drop a pin at that point, or tap the + button in the bottom-right corner to save your current location. Either way, the Add a Fix screen opens so you can fill in the details.

Give the location a name, choose or create a Group to file it under, pick a pin colour, and add any notes. You can attach a photo from your camera or photo library. The address is filled in for you from the coordinates. Tap Save and the pin appears on your map.

Finding your locations

Map

The map shows a coloured pin for each saved location. Tap a pin to see its name, photo and the current weather there; tap the callout to open its full details. Pinch and drag to move around; only the pins in view are drawn, so the map stays responsive even with many locations.

Weather for the selected place is shown in its callout, provided by Apple Weather.

The buttons in the top-right corner change the map style and the app icon; the + button to save your current location sits in the bottom-right corner.

List

The list groups your locations by Group (subject); tap a group's header to collapse or expand it. Use the search field at the top to filter by name, address, notes or group. Selecting a location in the list centres the map on it. Swipe a row to delete a location.

Working with a location

Open a location to see its map, photo, coordinates, notes and group. Three actions sit at the top of the details:

Update — move the location to your current position.
Share — send the location to other people or apps (see below).
Route — open turn-by-turn directions in your preferred maps app.

You can change the photo, rename the location, edit its notes and pin colour, and change its group at any time. Your preferred routing app (Apple Maps, Google Maps or Waze) is remembered for the Route button.

Choosing the map style

Tap the map-style button in the top-right corner to drop down a switcher and choose Standard, Satellite or Hybrid. Your choice is remembered the next time you open the app.

Siri and Shortcuts

Location Fix works hands-free with Siri and the Shortcuts app. Say "Drop a pin in Location Fix" to save where you are, or "Navigate to Parking in Location Fix" to start directions to a saved place. You can also build these actions into your own shortcuts and automations.

Sharing a location

Tap Share to send a location through the system share sheet. Location Fix tailors what each destination receives so the location arrives in a form that app understands:

Messages — a shareable Location Fix link plus a contact card (vCard) with the address and coordinates.
WhatsApp — a Location Fix link plus a Google Maps link.
Apple Maps, Google Maps and Waze — open the location directly in that maps app.
Tesla and Rivian — send the address to your car so you can navigate to it.
Mail, Copy, AirDrop and others — a link to the location.

Tip: When you share to another Location Fix user, they get a link that opens the place — complete with its photo — straight into their own collection.

Opening a location someone shared with you

Tap a Location Fix link that someone sent you and the app opens a preview of the place — its name, map and photo. Confirm to save it into your own locations.

Saving locations from other apps

Location Fix can capture places from elsewhere on your device using the Save in Fix share extension. From Apple Maps, Google Maps or a maps link in Safari, tap Share and choose Save in Fix — the name, address and coordinates come across automatically. You can also share a photo: if the picture was taken with location turned on, Location Fix reads the coordinates from it and uses the photo as the location's image.

Note: Photos only carry a location if Location was on when the picture was taken. If a shared photo has no location, Location Fix lets you type the coordinates in before saving.

Syncing across your devices

As long as you are signed in to iCloud, your locations sync automatically between your iPhone and iPad. Add a place on one device and it appears on the others a short time later. No account to create and nothing to back up by hand.

Choosing your app icon

You can change how Location Fix looks on your Home Screen. Open the app-icon picker from the top-right corner and choose the glossy coastal pin (the default), the classic map pin, or a dark variant.

Languages

Location Fix is available in seven languages — English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese — and follows your device language automatically.

Support

Have a question, found a problem, or want to suggest a feature? We would love to hear from you — email us.

Frequently asked questions

A location I shared didn’t include its photo. Photos travel with shared Location Fix links and are restored when the other person saves the place. Some other apps and channels only carry the address or a map link, not the picture.

My car (Tesla / Rivian) isn’t offered when I share. The car app must be installed and signed in on the device. When it appears in the share sheet, Location Fix sends it the address to navigate to.

A place I saved from Maps didn’t appear. Open Location Fix once after saving from the other app so it can take in the new location; it then syncs to your other devices.

My locations aren’t syncing between devices. Make sure each device is signed in to the same iCloud account with iCloud Drive turned on, and is connected to the internet.