I’ve been using the Day One journaling app for ten years. It’s where I keep track of my daily Story Cube writing exercises (occasionally shared on my Instagram account), and it’s also where I maintain a travel journal.

I ignore most of Day One’s numerous features (Too many, frankly) but the one that matters to me the most is automatic location metadata logging. Being able to recall where I was when I created an entry is why I started using Day One all those years ago.

But in a recent update, Day One began changing the location of journal entries that I had made several days before. It was doing this on its own, and was frequently changing them to an incorrect location!

This was completely unacceptable to me. Day One tech support was not helpful — when they eventually responded to requests — and my plea for help to the users’ forum on Facebook mostly garnered responses from company sycophants.

Eventually, though, a fellow frustrated user suggested that the cause might be a new feature called “Auto-Apply Points of Interest.” (This setting is turned on by default. It is buried in the “Location History” pane of the app’s settings.)

When this feature is turned on, Day One will decide that even if you carefully and specifically set an entry’s location, if that location is near a landmark it knows about, it changes the location to that of the landmark. Crazy, right? But here’s how it gets worse: the app goes through old entries, which you’ve never gone back and edited, and it changes those locations too!

So that note you created while standing in front of a great restaurant now says, after you save the note, that you were standing a few blocks away.

Turning off “Auto-Apply Points of Interest” fixed this problem for me. How in the world did Day One decide that silently altering old entries would be a good idea? If you’re having similar difficulty (and you probably are but haven’t noticed it yet) turn off this misguided feature.