Location is not working
Tried enabling location from system preferences but the location is not working. I was unable to find any solution on internet, Any one facing the same
MacBook Pro 13", macOS 10.14
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Tried enabling location from system preferences but the location is not working. I was unable to find any solution on internet, Any one facing the same
MacBook Pro 13", macOS 10.14
Do you have Wifi turned on?
Even if you are connected using an Ethernet cable, Location Services still needs Wifi in order to work.
Your mac, unlike your iPhone, does not have GPS, so it uses info about the available Wifi networks to determine your location.
Here is what I get on my mac when I turn Wifi off:
Do you have Wifi turned on?
Even if you are connected using an Ethernet cable, Location Services still needs Wifi in order to work.
Your mac, unlike your iPhone, does not have GPS, so it uses info about the available Wifi networks to determine your location.
Here is what I get on my mac when I turn Wifi off:
No error is displayed, I'm able to toggle on and off location in system preference but nothing happens, I'm no location icon is displayed in top right corner of the window.
I tried opening the siri,maps, google maps,weather etc but its not displaying my current location.
What may be the issue?
On a Mac, location can be determined by two items:
-If on ethernet, what ever your ISP "hub" is that your are connected
too, you will get that location. Depending on where you live, that
can be close by or very far away.
-WiFi location data. This can only be available if the WiFi router either
has a GPS or if it is an ISP provided router and only if the ISP provides
it with its exact location. These devices are required to have location data.
Bottomline, your Mac may actually give correct location info or it may not.
The only "guarantee" that you will have an accurate location is if you are
using your cell phone as a WiFi hotspot or another cellular based hotspot.
Please explain exactly what happens when you try. Any specific error message?
Yes, my WiFi is turned on. May be my current WiFi source is not providing sufficient location information.
Let me try some other WiFi source to confirm it's not the issue of WiFi network.
Since i'm connected via WiFi I didn't get a message as in your screenshot.
One other thing I forgot to mention, no location icon will be displayed
unless an app requests location services.
Location is not working