How to set up and use the Visited Places feature in Apple Maps
Visited Places is a new feature in the iOS 26 Maps app that intelligently detects the meaningful places, restaurants, cafes, parks, malls, and other spots you visit and automatically keeps track of such locations.
You can view all these places in the Apple Maps app on iPhone, iPad, and Mac to easily revisit those spots later or share their location with friends and family. It also kind of serves as a location logger to keep a record of where you have been.
Apple says that your Visited Places are end-to-end encrypted, meaning no one except you can read that data. Additionally, Visited Places sync from your iPhone to your other Apple devices via iCloud.
Supported countries
As of writing this, the new Visited Places feature is available in beta in just these six countries:
- Australia
- Canada
- Malaysia
- Switzerland
- United Kingdom
- United States
Turn on Visited Places for Apple Maps
1) Open the Settings app on your iPhone, tap Apps from the bottom, and select Maps.
2) Tap Location at the top.
3) Make sure Maps is allowed to use your location and turn on Precise Location if not already. Then, turn on Visited Places.
4) Return to the first screen of the Settings app and tap Privacy & Security > Location Services.
5) Ensure Location Services are on, and then tap System Services from the bottom of the screen.
6) Tap Significant Locations & Routes and turn it on.
Moving forward, the Maps app on your iPhone should keep track of places you visit.
See and manage your Visited Places
After you have moved around to new locations and spots, check back in the Apple Maps app to see those places.
1) Open the iOS 26 Maps app on your iPhone.
2) Tap Places > Visited Places from the bottom card. You can also tap the profile icon in the Maps app and select Places > Visited Places.
3) Visited Places are sorted by category, city, and date for your convenience. Tap to view them or tap “All Visits” to see every saved spot in a list view. You can also search for a Visited Place by name, category, address, or notes.
4) Tap the three dots menu icon next to a Visited Place to take the following actions:
- Save it to your list of Places.
- Share this place with others.
- Add a note to help you easily identify this place, and search for it using the added note.
- Give a rating for this place.
- Fix incorrect details about that Visited Place, if any.
- Remove this place if you don’t want it to appear in your list.
Set a duration for Visited Places
You can decide how long the Apple Maps app keeps your list of Visited Places.
1) Open the Apple Maps app and tap Places > Visited Places.
2) Tap Keep Visit from the bottom and select a preferred duration: 3 months, 1 year, or forever.
Delete your Visited Places history
If you want to clear all your Visited Places history, you can do that from the Maps app.
1) Open the iOS 26 Maps app and tap Places > Visited Places.
2) Tap Clear History from the bottom.
Turn off the Visited Places feature
If you don’t want Apple Maps to keep a log of all the spots you have visited, you can turn off this feature from Settings. Just note that Apple’s own Significant Locations feature, Google Maps, and other such apps on your iPhone may still remember all the spots you went. So, for total privacy, you’ll have to take care of those as well.
1) Go to iPhone Settings > Apps > Maps.
2) Tap Location.
3) Turn off Visited Places.
Will you be using this feature or keep it off?
Also, check out: How to add your favorite locations in Apple Maps
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