What should I do if iOS 17.3 doesn't recognize my home as a familiar location?

Apple has made it clear multiple times via multiple litigations that they do not believe that you own the iPhone they sold you. It’s not even in question for them. They believe they own it, and can do whatever the **** they want with it and to it.

This despite the fact that a) you paid for it outright, and b) they constantly disavow any responsibility for its proper operation.

They believe both of those things, simultaneously, with no cognitive dissonance issues whatsoever.

Same here! Did anyone ever figure out what to do about this? I hadn’t ever had an issue with this (honestly didn’t even know the stolen protection existed) but suddenly just 2 days ago I had to log into my secondary iTunes account so I could log onto my Patreon account and suddenly I can’t because “I’m not in a familiar location” while at home! I too have also had this device for a year and I don’t even travel so I’m ALWAYS within a 10 mile radius from home because my work is less than 5 minutes from my house. I’m not happy because I can’t access my Patreon account without my Apple ID being logged into, but I can’t shut off Stolen Device Protection to prevent this from happening either.

I’m stuck between always and away from Familia location. I’m always on a 15 minute delay sorry one hour delay between trying to change from always to away from family location I’m just not able to change it. I need help regarding this.

This is such a goofy thing to have happen and it is kind of shocking that there is no workaround using my biometrics, GPS, or anything really that would prove to IOS that I am the owner of the device and it hasn't been stolen. I recently copied everything from my old iPhone to a new iPhone, which of course included my HOME and WORK addresses in Maps. I'm sitting at HOME now and unable to install my employers Google MDM without enduring a 1 hour delay. Just feels completely needless and that there ought to be smarter/better ways for IOS developers to implement this Stolen Device feature such that the rightful owner could prove their identity.

I suppose the edge case in action here though is that a phone could be stolen and then the rightful owner, made under duress to prove they own the phone, thus unlocking it to the aggressive thief.

It still feels extremely intrusive to be sitting here unable to complete this action because my new phone doesn't recognize my home. It has that same feeling as being delayed at Self Checkout at the grocery store because an overzealous software sensor wrongly detected potential theft while scanning items.

Same, i am home everyday but it still says “ security delay takes one hour because stolen Device protection is on” and I don’t even know how to access the familiar locations I can only find significant locations and on significant locations it shows my location sooo can anyone tell me how to flippen do it?

Same here. Phone is set to allow "familiar location". Maps thinks that I am *2 metres* away from home. So I have to wait. (And I'm resetting my password in order to try to fix another Apple bug, ugh.)

Same for me. Home is a favorite on maps. I’m sitting home and find my phone shows me there. Still have to wait an hour. The information not Katana-San may be correct but it doesn’t fix the problem

Adding a familiar location on iPhone,how do i?

Some of us can’t even turn off the feature it just stays on regardless and then times us out

Just experienced this and I would say that the serious inconvenience of this feature outweighed the benefit for me.

Interestingly what I found our homes were never a familiar place for apple devices, the place where we spent more than 50% time of a day is not familiar for iOS 😂

Nothing

It doesn’t answer the question, I work from home so I am here probably 80% of the time minimum but I have to wait for an hour to make changes because of this ridiculous flaw!

I’m using a vpn but when I’m on maps it shows my current location. I also have iCloud relay and advanced protection on.