find my mac not showing mac location, but its online

I had the same issue in my MBP. I was able to solve it using the following steps:

1. Disable Find My Mac from System Preferences --> iCloud --> Unckeck (Find My Mac).

2. Go to System Preferences --> Security & Privacy --> Click the lock to make changes. Make sure to keep it unlocked.

3. Return back to System Preferences --> iCloud --> Enable Find My Mac.

No the issue is solved. You can go and check it from icloud.com. If it is working, you can go back and return the lock from Security & Privacy to its origional status.

That's it 🙂

This was the one... tried everything in this thread, did not work until I acted on

hsahliApr 5, 2014 4:39 PM Re: find my mac not showing mac location, but its online
Re: find my mac not showing mac location, but its onlinein response to sayadil

Sayadil,

Oh one more think, please make sure under Safari ==> Preferences ==> Privacy ==> the check box of the website tracking is uncheck/unselected.

Good one - cheers 🙂

Please verify that the box marked Enable Location Services is checked in the Security & Privacy preference pane, and that the one marked Find My Mac is checked in the iCloud preference pane.

If so, take the computer and the iOS device to a public place with Wi-Fi access. You don't necessarily have to connect to a network; you just have to see it in the Wi-Fi menu. Verify that the iOS device can be located but the Mac can't.

Location Services relies on a database of known Wi-Fi access points. If Wi-Fi is not turned on, or if you're not within range of at least one of those access points, you won't be located at all, or your location will be wrong.

Open system preferences > open the pad lock by entering user name & password > check the box enable location services , maps , weather .

Open safari > safari preferences > website use of location services > prompt for each website one time only .

some settings are there in screen shot to be enabled & you can also , follow an apple article : About Location Services in OS X and Safari - Apple Support

Some sites like location.org tells exact location

I get only a parking page at that address, so I don't know how to interpret your comment. It's not clear whether you carried out the test I suggested. If you don't intend to, I have no other suggestions.

I wanted to add to this discussion what I found today on my own Mac. I have been trying to get Calendar to show my location and it wasn't working, so I tried to find out why. Similar to the original poster, even my location in "date and time preferences" was not working with all settings set properly. At my office, which is where the Mac rests most of the time, I have access to both wifi and LAN, but I prefer to send wifi to my iPad through my mac and the ethernet for a more consistent connection, so I regularly use ethernet instead of wifi on the Mac itself, obviously. I noticed that once I turn off wifi internet sharing or unplug my ethernet and the Mac connects to the local wifi, I all of a sudden have a location.

This seems silly to me. I shouldn't have to only be on wifi as most ethernet connections also have logged locations, either provided by the ISP or whatever. I think this might be an issue with the provider of the network myself and the user is on. Even though my wifi is broadcast through my mac's ethernet to my iPad, the reason the iPad gets location is because it has a second source of location, the actual GPS chip (like the iPhone from the poster). And since the issue seems to be with the ISP (work network well locked down in my case), it seems there may not be anything the poster can do to turn it on.

You might try looking for any specific ports the location services on Mac use, or see if there is anything your ISP/network is blocking.

I have had this problem myself on my Mac mini, and MacBook Pro. If I go into my iCloud settings in System Preferences, and then toggle Find My Mac on and off, the service starts working again... for a few days. I've seen this happen no matter where I am with my MacBook Pro. This service is totally useless if it is going to shut it self off all the time. It's no my ISP. It's not my wireless network. This is an iCloud bug.

I also want to bump this issue: MBP late 2011, 10.9.2

In icloud find my devices- my macbook pro is showing online, no location availible.

I have date & time preferences selected to set automatically- but I always receive the message "unable to determine location at this time"

Location services on.

Find my Mac- selected.

What is this issue? I've read everthing (as far as I can tell) from support.

Has anyone got any idea about this?

Thanks for that, hsahli- but for me, it was a bit more complicated. DIagnostics at the Genius bar showed nothing special. They then did a bit deeper test and fund an issue with what they thought was third party RAM. Remoded that, put in official RAM, and still reproduced the problem. Turns out it's the logic board. No fix available here. It is a discrete issue that hasn't been seen by anyone at the store I visited and I got a high five for stumping the entire crew.

Rock on.

Guys facing the same issue with my MBP Retina Mid 2013 with latest Mavericks.

Unable to find mac on find my phone app. unable to determine location in date and time preferences setting.

Also sites like google not able to determine my location on safari. as soon as i open the page and get Allow Location sharing box i click allow... i get an error by google saying unable to determine location.

Now just to clear things up its got nothing to with ISP as error is same even when we go out of home to public wifi spots... also not to forget all other iDevices like ipad iphone work fine in determining location and are available on the find my iphone app.

even maps.google.com determines current location quite accurately on a windows machine in my room.

Now heres the interesting part....

Location services work fine on my mac when i use firefox browser. meaning same maps.google.com website determines current location just fine so problem lies solely with the safari browser.

Contacted Apple support earlier regarding this issue and was told to reset pram which dint do anything. was told to reset safari that doesn't help either. so im contacting them back regarding how location services are working fine on a firefox. i wonder if we can easily reinstall safari.

Hsahli..

i tried that but it doesn't do anything.

first you want me to unclick find my mac on icloud setting then unlock the security preferences and without doing anything there you want me to click find my mac on icloud again and check.. right?

i did that but no progress.. do you want me shut safari when i'm doing this? or restart before or after/?