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Where you live now

Where you live now is a city you pick yourself, separate from your heritage. It is found through Apple Maps with no location permission and no GPS.

It stands in for weather when location is not allowed, gives Roots its time, season and sunrise for where you live, and sets the holidays Roots shows.

Step by step

  1. Open Your Hamdam, then About You.

  2. Choose Where do you live now? and search for your city.

    Which city do you live in?: a note that the city sets the weather, the time and the sunrise with no location permission, Melbourne found by search, and Clear city.
  3. In Full setup, the heritage screen has one link to the same picker. Quick setup is unchanged.

Worth knowing

  • The city stays on your device and in your iCloud.
  • The coaches fall back to sunrise and sunset for this city when the weather has none.

Checked against Hamdam 2.1, 3 October 2026.

Where these facts were checked
  • hamdam-ios docs/runners/phase55-v2_1-plan.md (2026-10-03)
  • src/data/releaseDetails.ts, the 2.1 release notes, area by area

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