Safari not appearing in Location Services on MacBook Pro

I had exactly the same problem on my iMac M3 Tahoe 26.2 connected via Ethernet.

Find My Mac wasn’t working, and the location services in Safari and Apple Maps weren’t working either.

I tried the procedure suggested by GlenMohr in this post

Find My Mac doesn't work on MacBook Pro after MacOS26 upgrade

I also tried reinstalling the OS in Recovery Mode (without deleting apps and data, of course).

Then I had an intuition: I turned on WiFi and, magically, location started working again!

Now my iMac is connected to my network in both ways, but priority is given to the cable because in my case it is faster.

Apparently, Wi-Fi provides location information that the cable does not.

I bet many people who have this issue are connected via Ethernet...

pstevens3307 wrote:

Working on a MacBook Pro, 16 inch 2021. Recently upgraded to Tahoe 26.2. Trying to enable location services for Safari, but Safari does not appear as an app in the Location Services pane under Privacy and Security. Looking at Websites>Location under Safari preferences, it shows that Location is allowed for discussions.apple.com (the only window open at present) and lists a few Configured Websites. Chrome has no trouble finding my location, but I much prefer working in Safari. Anyone have a suggestion as to how to fix this?

For Safari I do not see it listed in System Settings...

In the Safari.app >Settings change to allow..(?)

I’m sorry for you and you’re not alone 🤷🏻‍♂️

In my case, I think I found not a bug but a design choice of the more recent macOS versions that I really don’t approve of.

My old 2011 iMac was able to locate itself even when connected only via cable…

I'm on wifi only, no ethernet.

Wi-Fi triangulation requires that it can see WiFi access points that have known locations on Apple’s database. That data base gets updated through location data collected from iPhones and iPads that have GPS or cellular locations.

You should start a separate question to try to resolve your problem which is different than this post.

malessere wrote:

No, it couldn’t. Location finding has always worked using Wi-Fi triangulation.

Are you seriously telling me that in 14 years (I changed the iMac in April) I didn’t know I had Wi-Fi on? 🤣

I guess that must be true because macOS has never had any other method to derive location.

I'm having the same issue. Did you ever get this fixed?

My old 2011 iMac was able to locate itself even when connected only via cable…

No, it couldn’t. Location finding has always worked using Wi-Fi triangulation.

No, it couldn’t. Location finding has always worked using Wi-Fi triangulation.

Are you seriously telling me that in 14 years (I changed the iMac in April) I didn’t know I had Wi-Fi on? 🤣