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Published August 14, 2026·5 min·add location to mood entries

Add location and weather to your mood entries

Location adds two pieces of context that are hard to remember later: where you were, and what the weather was like.

Meylo entry screen showing the location and weather card

Quick answer

Users want to know what turning on location actually adds to a mood entry, and how much of their position is exposed.

What location actually adds

When location is on, Meylo attaches your city to the entry and uses it to fetch the weather for that day. Both appear in the entry under Location & Weather, next to the temperature and conditions.

This matters because context fades faster than the mood rating itself. Six months later, "3/5" tells you very little. "3/5, Nantes, 8°C and raining" gives your review something to work with.

Location also feeds the map view, where entries are pinned by place, and it makes weather available to the influence charts.

Only the city is ever shared

This is the part worth being precise about. Meylo resolves your position to a city and only the city can ever be shared with friends. Your exact coordinates are never exposed to other people.

Sharing is also not automatic. Who can see your city is a separate privacy setting, reachable from the same screen under Related. If you never change it, turning location on does not publish anything about where you are.

Meylo entry screen showing city and weather attached to a daily mood entry
City and weather sit in the same card, filled in automatically once location is allowed.

Turning it on

Open Settings, then Data & Integrations, then Location. The screen tells you whether location access is already allowed on this device.

Tap Allow location. This opens your phone's own permission prompt — Meylo cannot grant the permission for you. Choose the option you are comfortable with; approximate location is enough for a city and the weather.

If you previously refused the permission, the system prompt will not appear again. Use Open phone settings instead, and enable location for Meylo from there.

If the weather looks wrong

The weather is fetched for the city that was resolved when the entry was saved. If you travelled that day, the entry keeps the place it was created from, not where you ended up.

You can refresh the weather from the entry itself. And if you would rather not record place at all, you can turn location off again at any time — existing entries keep what they already stored.

FAQ

Does Meylo track my position in the background?
No. Location is read when you create or refresh an entry, not continuously in the background.
Can my friends see exactly where I am?
No. Only the city can ever be shared, and only if your privacy settings allow it. Exact coordinates are never shared.
Do I need location for the weather to work?
Yes. The weather is looked up from the city resolved by location, so the two settings work together.

Start a clearer mood history

Turn on location and let your entries remember the place and the weather for you.