# Always On Location — Daily GPS logs for geotagging

> Daily GPS logs for geotagging (iPhone/iPad app by Boteanu Consulting.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/always-on-location/id6800086493 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Boteanu Consulting](https://appshunter.io/developer/6800086495)
- Category: Navigation, Photo & Video
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 1 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-08-21
- Data updated: 2026-09-22
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/always-on-location/id6800086493/reviews.md

## What is Always On Location?

Always On Location records this phone's position all day, including while the app is closed, and writes one plain CSV and one GPX file for each day. Point any geotagger at the GPX and photographs from a camera with no GPS of its own land on the map.

WHAT IT WRITES

• One CSV per day: time in UTC and local, latitude, longitude, altitude, the accuracy of each, speed, course, time zone, and which iOS mechanism produced the fix.
• One GPX per day, split into segments at gaps, so a geotagger never interpolates a photograph across a hole in the record.
• Both appear in Files ▸ On My iPhone ▸ Always On Location, and in Finder over USB.

WHERE THE FILES GO

Nowhere, unless you move them. There is no server, no account, no analytics and no third-party SDK. The app contains no networking code for your data. Files leave this phone only when you export them, or through an iCloud backup you control.

HOW IT KEEPS RECORDING

• Recording starts by itself at launch. A logger you have to remember to start is a logger you forgot to start.
• If iOS ends the app, it is relaunched in the background and picks the day back up.
• A missed midnight is repaired at the next launch, so a day is never left half-written.
• Three fidelity profiles trade battery against detail, and GPS parks itself when the phone stops moving.

WHAT THE MAPS SHOW

An accuracy limit, an optional speed limit, and the reach of the year map's shading are all yours to set. None of it edits the log: every fix stays in the CSV, and raising a limit brings it straight back.

HOW TO STOP IT

Pause recording whenever you like, delete any single day, or erase the whole archive. An afternoon somewhere is yours not to record.

Open source under Apache-2.0. The code and the privacy policy live in a public repository.


## Version history (last 1 release)

### 1.0 — 2026-08-21

No release notes.

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