divjyot_sngh Author

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find my mac not showing mac location, but its online

i having problem :

location servics enables (nothing in list)(no app in list which accesses location),

icloud "find my mac" enabled,

and WHEN I TRY TO FIND MY MACBOOK ON icloud or "find my iphone app" on iphone.

it says:

"ONLINE,LOCATION UNAVAILABLE"

and one more thing, when i set "time & date" to "set automactic according to my location"

then the result is "unable to determine location at this time."

CAN ANYONE TELL, HOW TO MAKE LOCATIONS ACCESSED? IS IT WIFI SETTINGS? OR IS IT OTHER SETTINGS BEYOND MAC .???

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4), OSX 10.8.4, mac book pro

Posted on Oct 13, 2013 3:09 AM

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sayadil

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Posted on Apr 6, 2014 12:56 AM

SOLUTION!

Ok guys this works for sure... apparently apple uses www.skyhookwireless.com for thier safari based location services and easiest fix is to go to thier website and give them your router mac address along with your location lattitude and logitude along with your email.

thats it. 6 hours later u get an email from them and now my mac is locating myself.

apple needs to change this though.

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sayadil

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Apr 5, 2014 4:19 PM in response to sayadil

pls note location services are working fine on firefox rite now but still not working on safari.

c_estus

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Apr 5, 2014 7:35 PM in response to sayadil

Sayadil-

One more thing to check- Safari- Preferences- Privacy- Limit website access to location services- make sure 'Deny without prompting' is not selected.

Good luck.

Nov 20, 2014 1:12 AM in response to hsahli

Genius! Thank you

enrgarci

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Jul 26, 2015 9:20 AM in response to divjyot_sngh

Just wanted to say that I had the same issue, I was connected via Ethernet, as soon as I turned the WIFI on I was able to Find my Mac Mini.

gteaches

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Jan 15, 2016 9:23 AM in response to divjyot_sngh

this didn't work, but another post about needing Wifi turned on for location services to work was the answer for me

Jan 24, 2016 11:41 PM in response to divjyot_sngh

I'm having the same problem with el capitan. Find my mac won't show location in find my iphone.

Feb 11, 2016 5:20 AM in response to hsahli

Thanks, worked for me.

Feb 14, 2016 6:41 AM in response to divjyot_sngh

Dear all, I solved this issue by turning Wi-Fi on. It was off since I'm using LAN cable to connect to network.

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