After update to ios16, iPhone thinks my Home is North Atlantic Ocean and HomeKit doesn’t work properly

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I have the same problem. If I click on the map icon containing cool blue atlantic water, I am taken to my address card, where my address is correct and the map icon tile is also correct. So "Find My" and HomeKit seems to think my home is a different place from where my address book card thinks it is.

I have turned off iCloud Private Relay, and I have no other VPNs or profiles installed.

The problem seems to be with determining where my home is, and not where my phone is. The AppleTV or HomePod that determines the location of the home, which does not use GPS but some other source, seems to be the problem. And I can find no way to configure that location, except turning on Location Services for the home.

Hello,

I have the same problem and apple thinks that my home is in the middle of North Atlantic ocean.

This problem not only affects homekit but also findmy app and optimized charging for all devices.

Findmy option "notify when left behind" is set for atlantic. I have manually deleted this locations and added new manual home location but after a while I find out that atlantic added back to the safe locations list.

As phone thinks that I am living in atlantic ocean, never makes optimised charging. Directly charges my phone, watch and airpods to 100%.

I have tried clean install but without any success. Additionally, I have deleted "significant locations" but after a month, all significant locations are set near atlantic ocean again.

Waiting for a solution from Apple.

A clean install did not help me at all. I am not sure it really is related to the phone, but rather some data stored in the Apple Home profile. However, home detection worked fine for the wife, not for me, at the same time. But a few weeks ago, this problem corrected itself without any action on my part 🤷🏼‍♂️

I found another bug in apple maps which may be an affect of this error: I opened the maps and tried to go work but maps tell me to go to my profile and add a work address. I went there and it was already filled. I have deleted and filled again but maps doesn’t my work address.

Sadly, even after reinstall, it thinks my home is in the North Atlantic. Maybe I need to configure as an entirely new phone, instead of restoring from backup 😕

Thank you for your feedback Grzegorz. I will cut my losses and do the same. I expect this is done in Settings -> General -> Transfer or Reset -> Reset.

I have this and have just added another custom location and removed "Home" as a temporary work around until Apple fix it with a patch hopefully.

I am facing the same issue. I cannot afford to delete my entire home and its automations.

So far, trying to update my contact card or restarting my HomePods didn’t work.

Any ideas?

Same problem here from Italy, reinstalled, deleted the significant locations on every device, set home, set work everywhere.

still getting this!