How does my iOs6 iPad get the location services data from my personal WiFi net?

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How does my iOs6 iPad get the location services data from my personal WiFi net?

How does Apple determine my current location of my iPad WiFi only by the location of the WiFi net (my house net)? How is the location of my private WiFi net sent to the Apple Database? Is the information obtained from the router?

iPad, iOS 6.0.1

Posted on Jan 15, 2013 2:27 PM

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JimHdk

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Jan 15, 2013 2:32 PM in response to Yasuobushi

The location information comes from GPS equipped devices like iPhones seeing your router and it's MAC address and sending the router location to Apple for inclusion in their database of router locations.

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