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

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 currently doing that right now. I didn’t know whether to have it on or familiar locations. The only thing that I think would scramble that up is even if you’re at home as if you have a VPN protection

Something in location services is not correct..

besides that I came on here to ask anyone else if they’ve had problems ever since downloading the latest version I lost my pictures to all my text messages. I lost a lot of information and unfortunately, Apple has not been a help whatsoever. They basically say oh you signed a waiver when you came in saying that you know we’re not responsible for Data what’s the point of having iCloud. Furthermore, they only allowed 10 iCloud backups from recent and it doesn’t have one eligible or prior to me going in and seeing them…

Another thing very, very important if people don’t know, I found out the hard way is that our contacts are assigned to our emails.

I have thousands of contacts in my Emails, Gmail, yahoo, etc.

If you happen to have a email on your phone or your device, they have the legal authority apparently to take all those contacts and strip them away as if you never ever had them.

When I went in the store, I asked them to and they all and we updated you to the to the most recent iOS. Well, I never do that at least three weeks.

To find out what all the problems are what everyone is experiencing, and then I decide whether I wanna update or not.

Excellent it’s I’m ready to buy a different device. I’m so upset with them. They are not calling me back. They used to call me back to never wait a long time. Said they were engineers and give me a call back. They never called. It’s just.

And I would highly suggest if anyone has AT&T to download or which carrier you have download the VPN protection it’s like $2.99 a month or something not much.

On AT&T, it’s called active armor.

I’m not sure what is going on what I do know is that my neighbor lost all her messages and pictures with her messages as well during that last update then the whole AT&T outage they had a breach when that happened

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.

You need to turn on significant locations inside system settings. Go to location services and scroll down to very bottom of this to system settings and toggle on Significant Locations. It should then learn your frequently visited places.

It works fine for me as I can turn on or off Stolen Device Protection while at home or at work.

Go to Contacts and your contact card should be a the very top of the page. Does it list your home and work address in your own contact card?

I just learned today that you have to turn on Significant Locations. See About Stolen Device Protection for iPhone - Apple Support and go to the bottom where there is an asterisk that says, "Significant Locations is an option within Location Services: Settings > Privacy & Security > Location Services > System Services > Significant Locations."

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.

Adding a VPN, can make this far worse for users. VPN on iPhone is SO NOT necessary and for location access, can completely mask where you are actually. I know you're frustrated, but if you use a VPN, it may well be what is causing the location issue for you.

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.)

Yes, my contact card lists my home and work address.

I'm very glad that the feature works for you. But it's not working for a lot of us. And, unfortunately, as per Apple technicians, there's no current fix. Setting your home location via your contact card, or via any other manual process, does not impact the Stolen Device Protection Familiar Locations.

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

或许是地区网络被覆盖了 系统分析不到都会以安全隐私理由来设置一个小时后才能更改资料 在这个时间里 你可以有时间去网络较好的安全地方去以更改 也可以设置系统位置分享把重要地图开启.