Apple Maps constantly opening over California. I live in the UK.

After letting this run for a while since this post from BDAqua, the locations and setting connection order seems to have nailed the iterations. This means I can leave the wifi on and not get the annoying name increase every time wifi and ethernet compete. That also means maps is behaving with wifi on.

Thanks.

(now the OS re install cos disk errors, oh well.)

Only iCloud Relay. That doesn't affect it. Router has been rebooted/full factory reset etc. for other issues regarding ISP service but no change.

I understood it would take home from contacts and use that?

Apologies for the delay. Part of the problem is the iteration of the name increasing if I use wifi, see other problem as mentioned. This has been happening for some time (it just hit that point of "lets ask someone"). I just cannot see why MacOS cannot pin a desk top to an address with an option and that will be home, no wifi. I thought I was missing something obvious.

Only time I use it is when I plan a route for a trip or check traffic to the next city etc.

OK, been looking at this, threw me for mo. the option for location in Sonoma is in a drop down box in System Settings>Network> bottom right drop down box (no gear logo)

Proxies wont work with iCloud Private relay but I notice 8.8.8.8. is google and aI prefer to avoid them.

Will try the network locations later after I have had a chance to get to grips with it.

Thank you.

Old fashioned, prefer hard wired where possible for internet especially when I have 500mb/s download speeds to play with.

My mansion is about the size of a shoe box and ISP router can sometimes be flakey, though this latest one surprises me compared to the older one (that older one was really really flakey, had to use a 3rd party router but fibre to the home requires this new router for certain functions).

Yeah, I know iPhone is fine, as is iPad. iCloud relay will not allow manual DNS inputs (disabling relay is not a fix either). Just that I thought that Apple will allow you to pin home on the desk top in maps somehow and work off that (You know, dropped pin or the contacts means home, desk top is here, X marks the spot). Seems I am misguided.

Hit a few snags with disk errors (unrelated, needs a reformat) but you mention of locations settings, seems to be working. I have set up Ethernet as "Home Ethernet" then wifi as "home wifi" and ordered them as per instructions and it seems to be holding, it was on auto. (But I suspect a reformat may be on the way due to aforementioned errors and will have to re input changes).

Gonna have to reformat then start again and make sure its a solid fix on the iteration's using "locations" (this reformat is gonna be a pain, yes I am all backed up, hate it when this happens).

Yeah, call it years of working in an environment where we didn't trust wifi when a hard wired option was available. (My test shows a 80mb/s difference and sometimes higher and appreciate many things can affect that especially when I see so many local same ISP and channel conflicts using the Apple WiFi sniffer)

But look like the annoying naming iterations are on a fix leading to more use especially if I can order the method as mentioned by BDAqua.

Thanks, already got but don't like the extension to check external disks, it does work with the internal but shows nothing. I rarely use it. Errors through searches with Apple Diskutil. Answers already found indicate reformat. Comprehensive backup plan across cloud, several HD and off site so data loss not a huge issue. Just a drag.

Edit. Etre Check shows nothing either.

OK, will have to do this later then get back to you. Does this clash with icloud relay in anyway?

Thanks