iPhone 4s location wrong... Why?

NO jailbreak

Just adding my issue to the pile to hopefully get this noticed - iPhone 4S.

My phone now reports that it's in Saudi Arabia.

Questions that come to me are:

Are my details getting mixed up with another user at the backend somehow?

Is this indication of some kind of fraud?

Is there something I can disable to stop this issue?

like disable iMessage?

Is this even acknowledged as an issue by Apple?

Should I return this phone? It's less than a month old.

*Edit: I first noticed this because it means that automatic setting of the Time is out by 3 hours, that's a serious flaw

Just to let you know... I called Apple Care and the lady told me that we tryed everything we could and that this problem might be a hardware issue!? I went to the store of my service provider and they gave me a new iPhone. It works fine now and I hope it says like that. I hope Apple is aware of the situation since it's not a minor problem.

Frustrating is not the word, I could probably come with 30 miles or so (which would still be annoying) but it's putting me a couple of thousand miles away in Turkey! I'm in Wales UK! Times wrong, alarms going off wrong, getting well annoyed. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Tried everything in this thread. Thanks in advance

I am getting exactly the same location(Ljubljana Slovenia) and I'm from the Highlands in Scotland. What's going on?!

Just stepped through with Apple support.

First instructed to delete emoji keyboard, don't know if that was significant or just resetting to UK default

then

Settings > General > Reset > Reset All Settings

fixed the problem

just had to set up my ringtones and wallpaper (they were all on the phone though, no data was lost)

hope this helps

jaked1991 wrote:

Has anyone from apple got an answer about this? Have also found out my friend with a 4S has the same problem ending up in the same place as my phone does!

#1, This is a User to User help forum as outlined in the Apple Support Communities Use Agreement

#2, Feedback via the web to Apple is through Apple Product Feedback

#3, From personal experience, my 4S (AT&T) is much faster and more precise in locating me in Maps than my old 3G. It does show me as being in my driveway 20 feet from my actual position. (programmed, regulation limited precision). I'm in the Detroit, Michigan metro area and have had it correctly track my location for the duration of a day while running errands, driving over 100 miles.

#4, From looking at the location of the complaints (now 4 pages long,) and how if someone is only connecting via WiFi results are correct, it would appear that this problem may purely be software and not hardware related (since the locations for this issue seem to be limited to Europe region).

I know this can't solve your problem, but anyone affected by this issue should contact AppleCare so they get more data to quickly solve this problem. You can most likley skip the hassle of getting the phone replaced as many people are saying this does not fix the issue.

Erm, spoke to soon...

No longer in Saudi Arabia which is good

Now in San Miguel, Manila!

Will try reset again without adding emoji, just in case that is significant

Nope resetting all settings did not help for me it just changed location to China (I'm from Europe). Apple what's going on?

Worked for me, thanks. I had installed emoji this morning that's when the problem started

Ive been stuck in San Miguel, Minila all day! And I am really almost 7000 miles away in Glasgow!!! I've done everything except wipe my phone!

Changed back to Slovenia. Ffs

I have the 4s my husband and daughter also have the 4s. All of a sudden the location is all out of whack. I found this out when i used find my friends to see if my daugther had made it home safely from college and it put her in the middle of nowhere next to a river!! scared the life out of me.. then i looked and i myself showed i was in the middle of Lake Ponchatrain! My husbands showed he was near the river by my daughter.. what is going on?? i checked once we were all in the same place and while we were connected to wifi at my home and it said the same thing.. i turned wifi off.. same thing.. went outside and it changed.. it's just very concerning and annoying... hope an answer comes soon!

Just did a factory restore, still in San Miguel. My wife's phone is iPhone 4S too is located in Anaizah... Find my iPhone is useless!

Thanks for the link to Apple Feedback :-)

Somebody else mentioned here that it is the Emoji keyboard causing the problem - how do you know? Does everyone who has posted here have Emoji? I'm loathe to reset all my settings on perhaps a hunch (no offence intended).