Scrolling If you are on a business plan or share your Apple ID with your extended family, you may have hit the total number of iPhones that can share a Find My iPhone account. Find My iPhone can only track the same Apple ID on 100 different devices at once. My location services show me living in a city an hour away. Scannable Slides Join our growing community of local and online members who love learning about their technology - through FREE club sessions, remote/phone support, online tips, tricks and tutorials, special members-only offers and discounts, and more. Health February 2018 January 2013 Bitcoin Backup Very confusing Apple or Internet Provider! Security Now let’s learn how to fake location on Find My Friends. Smart-tv Accessibility It is an approximation of the address of your device's 'IP Address'. Before the recent eclipse, we parked and set up at 4429’31” N 12111’41” W (Oregon). Itandcoffee Services For example, if you always use your Wi-Fi network at home, Apple will (with your permission) keep track of that location. Medical-id IOS 14 Update Notifications Transcribe This has been an ongoing thing since I bought this phone. Why is it that your site keeps saying I am in Phoenix, Arizona, while other sites have my IP location as where I actually live. Your IP address can narrow your location down to your country and maybe even the city you are located in. Have you tried to check your Location settings? Video-blog 1800-number Purchasing-an-idevice Choose Restore Backup. iPhone pictures taken before the eclipe showed that lat/long. Cookies Calendar Finance NBN You can give an app permission to use your Location Services even after you say no. Task Manager If you said no, then the app doesn’t have permission to use location information from your iPhone and may not work properly as a result. Take heart and read on. November 2018 September 2016 It’s much more likely that the iPhone either isn’t online, making you unable to locate it, or the time and date on your iPhone are wrong. Dock Look for an option to send a message or report a problem. Online-safety Big Sur June 2015 You can also help try to speed up the Location Services update by asking your iPhone to forget known locations Camera Christmas Services That sounds great, right? Silent-auction Fingerprint Sensor How to keep your iPhone from knowing where you are going next Be careful what you say in an iMessage. Trackpad Netflix This is an eastern coastal state. As others here have mentioned you are somehow attachef to another cell tower, or you have not updated your app, or you have locations setting off. Share February 2017 Other sites with IP lookup seem to know what city and state I live in. LET’S START. May 2014 Softwareupdate Discussion in 'Android Devices' started by lpasekof, Mar 23, 2017. lpasekof Lurker. To fix your date and time, go to Settings → General → Date & Time. Family Storage How Do I Fix A Bricked iPhone? Mac Photos Mobile Data Thanks for the info, it's quite odd that my location is actually on the other side of australia... Not even close - Southern NH login shows up in FL - WTF. Windows10 Scam Email Bluetooth ICloud Backup Continuity Photo-books Travel Managing subscriptions on your iPad and iPhone, Purchased music won't download to my iPhone and my Apple TV doesn't show any music. You can also share your location in the Find People app on watchOS 6 or later with Apple Watch models that have GPS and cellular and are paired with your iPhone. I am with AT&T GO Phone The apps that use location service like Weatherbug and Google think I'm 900 miles from where I am. Find-my-iDevice Step 3: Click on a location and tap on the Share button to share out the location. Internet-options Seniors December 2013 Videos July 2017 Catalina You can even help family members locate their missing devices in Find My iPhone. July 2014 Even though location services have been disabled or faked, a great deal of information about where you are located is sent just by using the Internet. May 2019 Just go to Settings → General → Reset → Reset Location & Privacy. Club News Restore May 2013 Telstra Activity Monitor Ditto. Wordpress May 2016 World-clock Once you choose 'Allow', that same device will then give you a numeric code that will then need to be entered on the other device (ie the device on which you originally attempted the sign-in), to complete the sign-in process on that device. Volume Popups Mojave Sierra December 2014 For Find My iPhone to work, an iPhone has to be turned on and able to send location information to Apple. (If the location settings is already on, toggle the service off then on again. Wifi084d04ddac I put a stop to that by setting my Location to "High Accuracy" and leave the GPS 'ON' at all times. Keyboard Parental Controls Santa ICloud Mobile-data Backups Settings Productivity Original Title: Why does my computer think that I live in Texas? This means that data from your computer called packets is sent through a mass of different networks thus making it believe it could be somewhere else. April 2017 Iphone July 2019 Club Meanwhile, the iPhone GPS places me and my device within a few yards (sometimes a couple feet!) Wi-Fi Guides (The numeric code is just a one-off code that does not need to be saved away. I'm not logged into a Google account. I moved recently, but I didn't change jobs; I just brought my computer with me to the new office. Apple-id Here, tap the green toggle next to Frequent Locations to turn it off. November 2020 April 2014 Some of those factors include where the owner of the IP has it registered, where the agency that controls the IP is located, proxies, cellular IPs, etc. There could be a few different reasons why your iPhone location is wrong, and there are definitely ways to fix this. Contacts I have never lived there or have been there in over 5 years. You could use it for apps like Facebook or Twitter, sending updates and tweets from locations that’ll have your friends ripe-green with envy. Boot Camp October 2013 of my actual location in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Gift Ideas When I go to a new news site, it gives me Texas news as does my regular news sites if the computer gets shut off (I sometimes have to turn it off when it locks up). Airdrop Time-to-leave So iPhones also use your cellular network connection, Wi-Fi connection, and Bluetooth connection to help pinpoint where you are. Force Reboot (LinkedIn article). Real Unbrick Fixes! It keeps “placing” me in Denver, Kansas City, Nashville, etc., depending on Lord-knows-what. Preview Scam Iphonex Uppercase I know this thread is old, but I thought I should pipe up because what happens with respect to my attempt to reset my Apple password is that I am prompted to allow access to my device by someone in Livingston, New Jersey, U.S. Are you a bit (or a lot) bamboozled by iCloud? “I trick my friends with this app a lot. May 2012, All Delete Itandwine Apple Watch Signature Please fix this! “A fun way to make someone think you are somewhere else than just your flat. If your iPhone location is wrong in more than one app, there could be a problem with your iPhone’s Location Services. Find My iPhone needs a connection to collect location information and send it to Apple. Channel 9 Check if the Location is set to On. Travel-sim IMAP The problem with sharing your iCloud ... Who's got my iPhone?!! Ios Be-connected February 2020 March 2019 And they still believe!” user Romangor said on iTunes. I live in the south of England and my location is given as Glasgow in Scotland. Outlook December 2017 Two-step-verification Snapfish The app is set to use my location “while using.” Updating my iOS to the latest version didn’t make this problem go away, either. Search for the name of the app that shows the wrong iPhone location. Internet Issues June 2019 with different lat/long. Screen The IP address of your device is what allows it to access the internet, and. Keychain Getting edited iPhone (or iPad) photos across to your computer using iCloud Shared Streams, Removing unwanted backups from your iCloud, Send an iTunes Gift from your iPad or iPhone. I am located in Northern New Mexico. IPhone 12 Pages I am so frustrated when I do a search on my iphone and it ALWAYS says I am in San DIego. Fonts Control Centre Why are there strangers in my Photo Stream? Virus May 2015 December 2015 Voicemail July 2018 If Find My iPhone says Never next to it, then that program doesn’t have permission to see your location information. Secondhand-devices As a result I have changed my Apple Password each time it was requested as it appeared someone 600 miles away was trying to hack me. Raise-to-wake November 2016 It’s a real head scratcher, but it does happen. For most of us, that isn’t going to be the problem. Battery You forgot to log off: You might be seeing the location of a mobile device you're still logged in to. COVID-19 August 2019 Word Widgets Thermomix My iphone says I’m in the Portland location and not in southern oregon. Ipad Itandcoffee Club November 2017 Reminders Voice-and-data Whatsapp When I visit Google now, it still thinks I'm in the old city, 300 miles away from where I actually am. ICloud Family When I check location services it's turned "on". Excel Router But satellite GPS isn’t perfect and can take several minutes to work. Rotation-lock May 2018 I am inundated with Texas ads on facebook. Split Screen June 2018 Thankfully, you can reset all of your Location Services settings. Podcasts Voice-memos I checked all my stuff nothing looks amiss, changed all my passwords for EVERYTHING. September 2013 Sms GPS is a system of satellites orbiting the world that bounce signals to and from your iPhone. June 2013 Quicktime Bigpond August 2020 Photos Iphone-settings Convert Software Updates If Weather shows you information for the general area and Maps has you nearby, your iPhone Location Services are probably just fine. Datad777f385d3 It will say something like: Someone has requested your location through Find My Friends app. Optusnet Lifestyle Find My iPhone may not work correctly. September 2012 August 2014 Same problem here, working on my macbook, signed into iCloud and my iPhone says someone is signing in to my iCloud in Manchester (I live on the South Coast and have never been to Manchester!). System Preferences March 2017 February 2015 But if you move and take your Wi-Fi router with you, then it might take Apple some time to update the saved information that tells them where that network is. or simply stop using known locations for a little while. Then my ipad, which has been in southern oregon for the last year is “located” in Portland. Safari-favourites Thesenior June 2014 To find out if your Wi-Fi connection is causing the incorrect iPhone location, turn off Wi-Fi. Hotmail Twofactor-authentication ), The reason your other device shows some strange location in the pop-up message is that the location shown is not actually your device's location. I'm not sure what happened, but now it has my pictures and contacts but calls me him and added my contacts. Airpods She checks, looks at the FIND MY app and it’s showing me everywhere but home. Cloud-storage To speed it up even more, Apple also stores information about where you typically connect. Plug your iPhone into your computer using a USB cable. Temporarily sharing your location is useful for all kinds of reasons. App-windows Updates How can I find my misplaced iPad or iPhone when it is muted!? My husband went through my phone and in the Google Maps app, under timeline, apparently it showed that I had actually went to several places on days when I had never left the house, but the worse part is that it's saying I've been to places I've never even been. Two Factor Authentication Now, it should be able to use your location information. Siri Share with your mother when you’re on your way to visit so she doesn’t keep texting to ask where you are while you’re driving. Remotewipe Tap Settings → Privacy → Location Services. If you have an older iPhone, one that has been jailbroken, then you can use FMFNotifier, a standalone app for iPhones that lets you spoof your location within the Find My Friends app. You’ll need to enter your iPhone passcode to reset your Location Services. To activate the discount at the time of booking, select, I keep getting  a message showing a sign-in is requested from a strange location. Audio Itandcoffee News Product Launch Rings The smaller that ring is, the more accurate your current location information is. For some reason my phone thinks I'm in another state. Itandcoffee-swap-shop I'm Valerie Lauer, a writer, editor and tech enthusiast. Itandcoffee Centrelink October 2014 January 2016 Photos-on-mac Personal-hotspot So when you’re on Wi-Fi at home, it automatically knows approximately where you are. Dictation December 2016 Wifi so - i had a 1.13 OTB iphone and recently went up to 1.1.4 - but since i noticed it was draining too much battery or something so i restored and went back to 1.1.3. Split-view Cybersafety Set Automatically should have a green spot next to it. Fraud If your location is only wrong in one app, then it’s most likely a problem with that specific application. What happened was I was tracking my son on his way to school just to know if he got there safe and after a few minutes, FMF located him exactly where he should be (school), but after checking again, his location changed to a few streets away from where he should be. When you login first time using a Social Login button, we collect your account public profile information shared by Social Login provider, based on your privacy settings. September 2014 Online-safety Look at your location in another app, like Maps or Weather. Technology-solutions Measure May 2020 School-ipad Website My iPhone Location Is Wrong! Number Porting Mac Tutorials My-health-record Typing i had my phone show a location several times for an extended period of time. Apple Music Files April 2013 October 2017 Funny things can happen when your iPhone location is wrong. Once your account is created, you'll be logged-in to this account. Telstracomplaint Sometimes, Find My iPhone has a wrong location because it isn’t connected to a network. I have a Samsung Galaxy Core Prime and it has Google Maps downloaded on it as well as other Google apps. Shared-calendar Powerpoint Sim  (In Melbourne, it shows St Kilda.). Slow-mac In fact, a battery monitor app will tell you that it might shorten the battery life by about 20 minutes over the time period of 18-24 hours. Office 365 Apple-pencil Weebly January 2014 Iphone8 Mac Imovie Wifi-calling It's possible it has something to do with the wifi network you're connected to, or if it's finding your location via 3g. This has happened to me as well I checked my husband’s location and it told me that he was in another suburb at 3.08 in the morning it’s killing me it said phone updating at the time can this app be wrong any advice , Safari on my iPhone is driving me crazy. Slow-device Thread Starter. Home Button Repairs Location Service thinks I'm somewhere else. Tasks Android If it doesn’t, then tap the toggle to turn it on. Technologytips Your alarms might not work. Printing Tutorials August 2012 There will be a list of the apps that have asked to use your location. January 2015 Downloads Socialmedia Safari Relay It’s best to shut down your cell phone totally. Here’s The Fix. Shopping Whenever I do a search it brings up a Chicago zip code never fails! A VPN is a virtual private network. Privacy September 2015 Pictures taken 35 minutes later, at the same site recorded at 4431’50” N 12110’56” W, nearly a mile away in a farmers field…. Buying Guide What gives Apple, please fix this. is allocated by your Network Provider when you connect to their network. When Share My Location is turned on, you can share your location with friends, family, and contacts from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with Find My. September 2019 December 2019 Apple News Tutorial October 2019 But note my correct location once I arrive home. Task-switcher April 2018 Books Spotlightsearch We'll also put you on the list to receive our FREE fortnightly newsletter, which is full of tips, news and information about using your technology in your everyday life! Evernote To find out if your Wi-Fi connection is causing the incorrect iPhone location, turn off Wi-Fi. How do I stop the kids games from appearing on my iPad and iPhone? YouTube Kids And Technology Classes Apss Reboot To close apps, double-click your Home button. If you don't, then you will not be able to use the account or service that your device was trying to access. You could also use it for apps that are location-specific like Groupon or Job Compass. Sunrise Iphone Basics Facebook Humour You can also manually choose your time zone if the Set Automatically option doesn’t fix your Find My iPhone. Eventually, Apple will update the location information, but it may take a while. 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