Q: My MacBook Pro with Retina display shows wrong current location
I purchased my MacBook Pro when I was a student at a particular university in Hawaii. After I graduated, I moved back to my home country in the Philippines. When I use Google Maps or Bing Maps to show me my current location which is now in the Philippines, it still shows that I'm still at that university in Hawaii. I tried using the Find My iPhone App, it shows my iPhone's and MacBook Pro's location in Hawaii but not at my current location in the Philippines. I tried resetting the PRAM, changing region settings, and even my timezone manually, but still having that wrong location info whiich I need in case I lose my iDevices and try to locate them and they'll all point to Hawaii!
Please help! Thank you!
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3)
Posted on Jun 2, 2013 5:20 AM
Do you still have your DNS servers set to those you used in Hawaii? Go to the Network system preferences and click your active connection (likely WiFi). Then click the Advanced button and go to the DNS tab. In here, if any DNS servers are manually editable (ie, not grayed out) then select and remove them.
Additionally, go to the Security & Privacy system preferences, and then in the Privacy tab click the Location Services option. In here, select "Location Services" and ensure it is checked and enabled (you might try toggling it off and then back on).
Lastly, you can try resetting the privacy database for location services on your system by running the following command in the OS X Terminal:
tccutil reset CoreLocationAgent
Posted on Jun 2, 2013 7:57 AM