Find my iPhone... Wrong

The wifi only iPad uses cell towers to determine its location and is not near as accurate as the IPad cellular/GPS.

If you do several tries it may show a more accurate location.

I saw this post on another forum.

Question: How accurate is the "find my iPhone" app? Here's the scenario... My husband often travels out of town for business; he usually finishes work by 5 o'clock. Last night, he called late, saying he was called back in to work -- which was not unusual, as it does happen some times. For whatever reason, I decided to track him using the app. Long story short, it showed him just over the state line, in the opposite direction of his work in a completely different state. In addition, instead of being at his workplace, he was in two specific locations that he had no business being near. I accused him of being unfaithful, but he swears to God that he was at work.

I've Googled the accuracy of the app, and the consensus is that it's pretty accurate most of the time, but mistakes like showing up in another state are not uncommon. Oh, the two locations he had no business being near? They were gay bars...

Am I being paranoid, or am I justified in questioning his whereabouts?

 Cheers, Tom 😉

The WiFi-only iPad does not use cell towers to determine location. It uses the MAC addresses of nearby WiFi routers to lookup the location of these routers in an Apple database. The Apple database has been constructed from iPhones/iPads (GPS-enabled) reporting the location and MAC address of routers that it sees.

Probably a router that your iPad is seeing is misplaced in Apple's database or it has been moved from it's previous location.

I have a similar problem on iOS 8.3 over WiFi is said that my fifth generation iPod touch was in the middle of the highway. I used Find My iPhone for this. It was on my home network. A Belkin Router.

Same answer as provided above.