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<h2><a class="title-link" name="location-tracking-when-outside-a-home-assistant-zone" href="#location-tracking-when-outside-a-home-assistant-zone"></a> Location tracking when outside a Home Assistant zone</h2>
<p>Home Assistant for iOS receives <em>significant location updates</em> from iOS. Whenever an update is received, it is sent to Home Assistant. Roughly, an update is received everytime that your device transfers to a new cellular tower, a significant amount of time has passed (usually a couple hours) or a connection state changes and the system notices your location recently changed.</p>
<p>Apple <a href="https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/LocationAwarenessPG/CoreLocation/CoreLocation.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40009497-CH2-SW9">defines</a> significant significant-change location updates as:</p>
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<p>The significant-change location service delivers updates only when there has been a significant change in the devices location, such as 500 meters or more.</p>
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<p>They also say in the <a href="https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Performance/Conceptual/EnergyGuide-iOS/LocationBestPractices.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40015243-CH24-SW4">Energy Efficiency Guide</a>:</p>
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<p>Significant-change location updates wake the system and your app once every 15 minutes, at minimum, even if no location changes have occurred.</p>
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<p>Finally, I think this answer from <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/a/13331625/486182">Stack Overflow</a> says it best:</p>
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<p>The significant location change is the least accurate of all the location monitoring types. It only gets its updates when there is a cell tower transition or change. This can mean a varying level of accuracy and updates based on where the user is. City area, more updates with more towers. Out of town, interstate, fewer towers and changes.</p>
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<p>Whats the real story on significant-change location updates? Who knows, because Apple keeps it private.</p>
<h2><a class="title-link" name="location-tracking-in-home-assistant-zones" href="#location-tracking-in-home-assistant-zones"></a> Location tracking in Home Assistant zones</h2>
<p>At launch, Home Assistant for iOS sets up geofences for all zones in your Home Assistant configuration. Enter and exit notifications are sent to Home Assistant.</p>
<h3>Configuration</h3>
<p>Add <code class="highlighter-rouge">track_ios: false</code> to your zone configurations to disable zone location tracking for all connected iOS apps.</p>
<h3>iBeacons</h3>
<p>As of 1.0.3 the app has basic support for using iBeacons to trigger enter/exit updates. To configure them, add your iBeacon details to your zone like this:</p>
<div class="language-yaml highlighter-rouge"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="s">zone.home</span><span class="pi">:</span>
<span class="s">beacon</span><span class="pi">:</span>
<span class="s">uuid</span><span class="pi">:</span> <span class="s">B9407F30-F5F8-466E-AFF9-25556B57FE6D</span>
<span class="s">major</span><span class="pi">:</span> <span class="s">60042</span>
<span class="s">minor</span><span class="pi">:</span> <span class="s">43814</span>
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<p>Restart Home Assistant and then the iOS app. It will begin then begin using iBeacons <em>instead of your location</em> for enter and exit triggers around your zones. To add an iBeacon to <code class="highlighter-rouge">zone.home</code> add the above under your <code class="highlighter-rouge">customize</code>.</p>
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