We are living in the most difficult weeks because of the COVID-19 epidemic produced in many countries of the world and we have been forced to stay in our homes and leave only what is important. However, if you live in Spain, you will know that these forms of incarceration will gradually relax. If you have children you can take them around, keep all the safety limits in place, and it may be that within a week we can all go for smaller trips.
However, the precautionary measure is that it should be within a 1 mile radius of our home. I can calculate that distance is not an easy thing with a naked eye, but luckily We have our iPhone and can configure it to let us know when we reach the 1 km limit
How to get an iPhone to alert you when you're away from home
The iPhone has always been able to remind us of what we want when we arrive or leave somewhere, an app Reminders have been improving a lot with the role of iOS updates and it can do so much for us, one of those tasks can be useful now.
From the Reminders app we can easily and easily prepare in just a few minutes notice when located one kilometer away from home. To do it and prepare it properly just follow these steps:
- Open the app Reminders on your iPhone.
- Click Today and down at New reminder.
- Give the name you want, for example: “Be careful! You're only 1 km from your home ”
- Now click on the "i" inside the circle that appears next to the name of the monument.
- If you know the exit date you can choose it, or Repeat it Every day.
- Click Location and select the location of your house, which may be your current location.
- On the map below you will see a circle, click the black point then extend it to 1 km.
- Submit! Now click Exit, returning the "forbidden" location.
- Press and continue Details and All right, and your reminder will be configured.
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As we see creating a notification of your position on the iPhone is the simplest thing that can be done by descent from the apps we installed on iOS, we should not download anything from the App Store that could jeopardize our privacy by giving us access to our location. Application Reminders from Apple ensure that this data remains confidential and they will not be shared with anyone.
It looks like we are slowly getting out of this difficult situation, but established precautions must be followed to avoid new infections and coronavirus outbreaks. Thanks to this little trick you can respect the distance established by flying in Spain and, by the way, get it how to create reminders based on our location.
