Find My app in iPhone showing wrong location

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Find My app in iPhone showing wrong location

I had gotten mu first iPhone with the 12 series for the camera and the marketing department pushing the security capabilities and Apple’s laws that govern And protects this tech Goliath or their claim of protecting customers privacy. So my question is, when i look at my Mac Book Air M2 with my OS updated to 17.4 on the “Find-Me” app it says my Mac Book Air is 900 feet away. When i check my iPhone 13, the blue dot is at the neighbors house. But when I check my router, it shows that im on our network and everything should be working fine. So today i decided to install a new camera that is “the latest and greatest” and to my surprise, my Orbi that is less than 5 months old is catching 3 wifi networks with the same name as my wifi. My ring door bell doesn't go off when its to, i feel like my 2022 suv’s guidance is giving me bunk info, and every single photo that i had saved in my gmail photo’s, which ive had since 2003 has been wiped. I change passcodes, do the factory reset. Every option that Apples website recommends its like ive got either neighbors trying to hack me or im a suspect that some agent or detective mistaken my family and got some info wrong?

why are all my devices buggy,
why is my location showing 900 feet away for all my devices? 3) what can i do in a situation like this and get to the bottom of what is REALLY GOING ON WITH the tech we own?

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Posted on Jun 7, 2024 10:06 AM

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Jun 7, 2024 12:58 PM in response to lael20

Well, there’s a lot to unwind there.

First, Macs do not have GPS. So the location of a Mac is the location of its connection to the internet, which could even be miles away.

As this is an Apple forum, I can’t answer for an Orbi router, but routers have more than one band, and can have up to 3, so that might be why you see it 3 times.

Again, as this is an Apple forum, I can’t answer for Google Photos either, but I’m sure you can get help in the Google support forum.

For your location, if you are indoors your devices can’t receive GPS satellite signals, so they will use the location of nearby Wi-Fi networks that Apple has mapped. But if you have a new router Apple hasn’t mapped it yet, so your location is determined by the routers whose location it already knows. To fix this go outside, but near enough to connect to your Orbi and wait for your location to be correct as determined by actual GPS satellite signals. That should add your router to Apple’s aGPS (Assisted GPS) database.

As far as your vehicle is concerned, your iPhone must have a clear view of the sky, and if you have a tinted windshield that can interfere with GPS. In this case your iPhone again depends on Wi-Fi mapping, so you must have Location Services turned on, and also have Wi-Fi turned on even if you aren’t using it for its internet connection.

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