Hi
My iPad pro cannot read my current location. I thought it happened only with my Weather widget. But the maps cannot read that too. Maps says "Current Location Unavailable". My location service is ON. And the Weather and Maps are set to "While using app or widget".
Would appreciate some insight on this. Please help.
Thanks
I’d make an educated guess that you perhaps have a WiFi Only model iPad.
Unlike your iPhone and WiFi & Cellular models of iPad, WiFi Only iPads do not have any GPS location capability with which to directly determine their location - and as such are completely reliant upon their network connection to infer an approximate location.
Your approximate geographic location would be estimated from a “database lookup” of (a) your WiFi Network Name (SSID) or detected neighbouring WiFi networks - and (b) the “public” IP Address provided by your Internet Service Provider (ISP).
If the mapped WiFi network name or IP Address are not available within the applicable databases, or if this information substantially differs between sources, then your approximate location may not be computed. This situation often occurs if you are in a remote/rural location where neighbouring WiFi networks are scarce - or if connecting over satellite or VPN connections.
Network IP Addresses and WiFi networks are frequently mapped in urban and cosmopolitan areas (including “crowd source” techniques) and as such approximation of your location from lookup against these databases can be provide relatively high accuracy. As population and network density diminishes, this mechanism becomes progressively less reliable - if indeed it works at all.
If you can, perhaps try connecting to a different WiFi network - be it private, public or your telephone WiFi hotspot.
I hope this explanation as to possible cause is helpful.
I’d make an educated guess that you perhaps have a WiFi Only model iPad.
Unlike your iPhone and WiFi & Cellular models of iPad, WiFi Only iPads do not have any GPS location capability with which to directly determine their location - and as such are completely reliant upon their network connection to infer an approximate location.
Your approximate geographic location would be estimated from a “database lookup” of (a) your WiFi Network Name (SSID) or detected neighbouring WiFi networks - and (b) the “public” IP Address provided by your Internet Service Provider (ISP).
If the mapped WiFi network name or IP Address are not available within the applicable databases, or if this information substantially differs between sources, then your approximate location may not be computed. This situation often occurs if you are in a remote/rural location where neighbouring WiFi networks are scarce - or if connecting over satellite or VPN connections.
Network IP Addresses and WiFi networks are frequently mapped in urban and cosmopolitan areas (including “crowd source” techniques) and as such approximation of your location from lookup against these databases can be provide relatively high accuracy. As population and network density diminishes, this mechanism becomes progressively less reliable - if indeed it works at all.
If you can, perhaps try connecting to a different WiFi network - be it private, public or your telephone WiFi hotspot.
I hope this explanation as to possible cause is helpful.
I don't have the iPad Pro, but I'm posting this here for others who might not be able to get the Weather widget on their iPads to switch from Cupertino, CA to their actual location. For me, going into Settings > Privacy > Location Settings and allowing Weather to use my location while the widget was in use didn't work. This did: On the home screen, I swiped right to show my widget bar, then I did a long press on the Weather widget (same thing as when you hold an app icon to move it around). This caused a menu to pop up with the option to edit the widget. You can then enter your zip code or a place name. Problem solved. 🙂
Using a VPN?
Are you connected to WiFi? Things may not work if your cellular is off or if your WiFi is off on WiFi models.
Location Services you also have to allow Weather and Maps individually.
Thanks a lot.
You are very welcome.
Weather widget cannot read my current location
