2 home icons in ios location services

Looking around the settings in my iPhone and saw this, anyone else seeing this?


iPhone 11 Pro Max 17.0.1


iPhone 11 Pro Max, iOS 17

Posted on Sep 25, 2023 9:04 PM

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Posted on Oct 7, 2023 1:06 PM

I finally spoke with someone in support from Apple. I’m not sure if this works yet as I only did it on my iPad Pro. This morning when I thought it would it wouldn’t. Then I realized I needed to do it on my iPhone as well.

Here’s what support had me do:

  1. If you have the 2 “Home” icons in Location go to General.
  2. Scroll down to Transfer or Reset (item)
  3. Go to “Reset”
  4. Go to “Reset Location & Privacy”
  5. Reset
  6. You should now only have 1 “Home” icon. Activate it for location.
  7. You’ll be prompted on other items as you use them to use this then.


As I said I have done this to my iPhone as well after checking it and will see if it works tomorrow morning coming back from walking the dog.

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Oct 12, 2023 5:06 PM in response to FelixGarcia

Interestingly enough, I think I found a fix. At least this worked for me.. and surprisingly, it seemingly has nothing to do with the fact that there are two Home icons in my Locations Services. I have automations set to respond when I arrive home and was having trouble with the audio ones triggering. The lighting ones were fine. Well, in addition to having an automation play audio, I also had SCENES set to adjust the volume within the automation. When I removed the scenes from the automation, everything is working as usual again. The workaround to adjust the volume of the various speakers was to create a SEPARATE automation that just contains the scenes that adjust the volume of the various speakers. When the scenes were mixed in with the accessories in one automation, it didn't work. But having two separate automations, one with the accessories (speakers) and another with the scenes (volume adjustment) seems to have solved the issue 🤷 Now when I arrive home two separate automations will run; one that plays the playlist on all the speakers, and another that adjusts the volumes of the various speaker pairs. I hope that makes sense, & that this helps anyone else trying to achieve similar results.

Oct 14, 2023 12:12 PM in response to FelixGarcia

I’ve set an automation of “When anyone arrives home” for the morning. That seems like it’s working. It’s set only between 5 am and 7 am. I don’t really need it after or before. I still have my automation for the same but with “Night” as the setting and not a specific time range. That’s worked but only on occasion. I’m going to see what happens when I get home later if not then I’ll put a specific time range on it and see.

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