My wifi ipad shows the wrong physical location when connected at home.

Chris Sparno wrote:

Not sure whether I should waste the time contacting Apple since it sounds like it's hit or miss on whether the Airport will ever report the updated location.

Use an iPhone in the area to pick up the your router and location to report to Apple. Read page 3 of this topic.

Did that 5 weeks ago when we moved here. It's my router for sure. At another location and it shows me in New Mexico on this iPad.

No, it's Apple's location database.

The current location of your router is not identified in Apple's location database.

Thanks for the assist, Chris. Have a Happy New Year!

This stinks. I am having the same problem on my iPad 1 as well. I recently moved, same town, but the location is showing that I am in my old apartment a little over a mile away.

So, I just found out, my iPad and 1st gen ipod touch show my old apt, and my wife's 4th gen iPod touch shays location coud not be determined. Strange.

I ahve the same issue, myipad shows it's in China, while I am in Central Asia and have never ever been in China. And I have an iphone, which identifies location correctly, being connected to the same wireless network. However, even when these two idevices are sitting side-by-side in my living room, one thinks it's in the house and the other one thinks it's in China! It screws up my time zone, weather forecast and it's frustrating in general. Plus icloud's "find my device" also places my ipad in China, thus becoming completely useless! Any ideas?

Here's another side for ya. I work for a college with eight geographical locations. We use the same SSIDs at each location. Considering the amount of times Apple's DB is being updated by our students, could the DB be "getting confused," throwing out junk location data or not showing location at all? It has worked before with my 4s in Airplane Mode w/ wifi on. Or got me reasonable close anyway. Problem children are wifi-only ipads.

I recently had an issue with locating myself with my non wifi ipad2 after we moved from state to state.

The fix was to locate the iPad with my iPhone via find my IPhone app. It required refreshing the location until it showed the correct location (twice).

Now my iPad finds itself just fine and the time is correct etc.

I have the same issues. Moved to florida from Arizona. All devices on same router. 2 iPhones, an air,a MacBook pro, and an iPad3 wifi. The iPhones and mbp show correct current location. The air and ipad3 have cupertino as location

No clue what to try next as the suggestion on page 3 about using an iPhone isn't working

Have the same issue after I moved within California (about 100mi). My iPad 1 WiFi insists it's at the old house.

I tried your trick, but on my iPhone (physically residing in the new house and showing the same for itself) Find My iPhone shows the iPad at the old house! Which makes sense, if the device itself thinks it's there...

Is there still no way (like the Skyhook's webform) to manually add/update a router to Apple's database? I had hoped they would eventually provide this.

I live an work in an urban canyon where GPS is not very precise. Sitting in my office on the 50th floor of building among a bunch of other buildings, my displayed location is frequently off by a city block or more. We've had wireless routers in our office for years, and an office full of iPhone users. I expect that Apple's database has never been given an accurate location for our routers because of all of the tall buildings throwing off the GPS and cell tower signals. I would love to manually enter our routers' locations.

I Have the same problem in that my location is shown as being in Hawaii whereas I am in Port Elizabeth South Africa. I have just logged off my Linksys wifi which is connected via 3G and logged on via my neighbours ADSL link. On reconnecting via my own link I am now located correctly 😁.

UPDATE to this CURRENT LOCATION on iPad / iPhone / Find My iPhone issue -

I have a iPad that kept showing my OLD adress in Orlando Fl on BOTH google maps and Apple Maps, even after I moved up north to South Carolina. I tried everything. I then tried my FIND MY iPHONE on my Macbook Pro and same thing. Annoying.

This evening I set up my BACK TO MY MAC so i could acess my Time Capsule from work. After I set it up, and just for grins, i renewed the DHCP Lease while doing this. After the Time Capsule rebooted, my iPad displayed the correct location immediately. My macbook pro was still showing the OLD location in my FIND MY iPHONE. Did a restart and BAM, its all good.

Not sure if it was the renew or restart of the Airport Extreme Time Capsule.

Hope this helps.

Apple Macbook Pro 15" OSX Lion 10.8.2 and iPad iOS 6.1.2

I know this thread is old. I just wanted to add my 2 cents.

I think the iPad also calculates its location if Apple's database has the approximate locations of any nearby Wi-Fi hotspot. I say this because when we moved to our present location, we brought our old router with us. As I recall, my iPad placed me in the vicinity of my house the first time I used Maps since we subscribed to Internet service. Granted, we brought an iPhone, but seeing as it can take a few minutes for an iPhone to get its current location, I don't think it did anything to help my iPad find itself.