HomeKit Home Wrong Location

Ok so this is that pretty common issue people are having with where HomeKit thinks there home is, showing it in an incorrect spot.

It seems this has been a problem for people for a while but only showed up for me in the last day with iOS 17.1. When I check a home automation that uses location is set my home location about 500m away even though its correct in contacts.

I found a fix for now:

Privacy > location > system > significant locations Clear history. Reboot phone. Go back to Home and open automations that use your home locations and check where it thinks home is, mine fixed itself.

BUT! Now thats its fixed I restarted the Home Hub that was being used, and it switched to another Home Hub in my house. As soon as it did it thinks I'm not home again so something to do with the address storing on the home hub too. Did the fix above again and it worked again.

Have you also tried to clear the history of the significant locations? It was the only working workaround for me.

In case you haven't tried yet, this is path to follow:

Settings -> Privacy & Security -> Location Service -> System Services -> Significant Location

And the click on "Clear History".

I', having this same issue and was tearing up my setup thinking that I somehow broke something. I just spent 50 min on the phone with Apple Care and it turns out that this is a relatively new problem but they are aware of this issue and are supposedly looking for a resolution. At-least I can stop recreating automations and reseting crap that has nothing to do with the issue. I guess we'll have to wait to see if they fix this in the next big update.

I have two hubs (Apple TVs) and they didn't prevent me from offloading the Home app. Have you switched to the new Homekit architecture? With the old architecture, the Homekit configuration was maintained on the phone, so I could see how that would prevent offloading the app. But with the new architecture, the configuration is maintained by the hubs. The new Homekit architecture switched to a hub centric approach, and the Home app is just a client talking to the hub, so offloading it doesn't risk losing the configuration. Could also be because I'm not the only user. My wife is the second user, so my phone is not the only device that has control over my home. Are you a single user?

My home location is still correct since I did the offloading/reinstalling of the Home app, so this issue appears to be caused by corrupt data, which gets cleared when the app is offloaded or I suppose a factory reset and then restoring from a backup would work as well, but that's more drastic than offloading and reinstalling just the Home app.

Of course. Have tried everything. Multiple support cases with Apple. This is very clearly a software bug hence why none of the troubleshooting steps work. It’s a waste of time. Apple will need to fix whatever this is via software update. The more people that report the problem the higher the likelihood that happens. So if you haven’t, report the issue to Apple Support. They don’t monitor the forums.

Following up on my own post. Just had an idea. Went to Settings | Storage and offloaded the Home app, then reinstalled it and now it has my home in the correct location. Let's see how long it stays that way.

Ok everything broke again last night so I tried a different fix from reddit. Can confirm this works also as a fix;

1. Leave all homehubs on

2. Shut off all wifi in my house so everything disconnected from network

3. Turn all wifi on and homehubs and devices will connect

4. Wait a few minutes and it seems to fix itself (for now)

And you have tried this that getangar suggested:

Have you also tried to clear the history of the significant locations? It was the only working workaround for me.

In case you haven't tried yet, this is path to follow:

Settings -> Privacy & Security -> Location Service -> System Services -> Significant Location

And the click on "Clear History".

Then restart your iPhone.

Since I deleted all the automations related to the position and recreated them with the Mac everything has started working again(7 november) (hoping it doesn't break again)

EDIT: I have disable Frequent places and position in HomeKit It's back correct

Myself and a lot of other people have the same problem.

Deleting frequent locations on all phones of the home repairs it most of the time for a few hours. Then it randomly moves the home location again.

It is unusable right now.

Here is a Reddit thread showing the problem existing for a few years now:

https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeKit/comments/114fyjm/home_app_home_location_moved_seen_in_automations/?sort=new

The solution for me was to reset all location settings on all devices with Home configured. Every time I reset one device, I would turn it off. Once all are off, I turn them one by one and check (before turning on the next one) if in Home app my home location is back to normal.

I deleted location-based automation on iPhone and recreated from Mac and now it seems to work for both me and family members. I don't know if it can be a solution try and let me know

Hi, do you have 2 home icons in ios location services on your iPhone, after upgrading to iOS 17.0.2?

Same here (Germany)

resetting location&security did help for a while. Started with update to 17.

its off about 500 m north/west ????