iPad cannot determine location. Defective?

I have had my iPad (wifi only) and my GPS has always worked UNTIL I did the latest update to 7.0.4 last week. Now it will not work at all and I get the "Can not determine location" message. I am trying to access it from my home which I have lived in the entire time I've had the iPad and my internet provider is the same as well. I haven't been able to find any way to reset it or anything like that either. Does anyone know a fix?

If you have the WiFi-only iPad your location is determined by the location of nearby WiFi routers. The WiFi-only iPad does not have GPS. Without GPS location-finding is done by using a Apple location database which contains the MAC addresses of routers and their physical location. A MAC address is a unique number which is built-in to all network devices when manufactured. The Apple database is built and updated by Apple GPS-enabled devices (primarily iPhones) actually seeing your router and then adding/updating the router's location in the database.

Bottom line: Your Router is probably not yet in the Apple location database. It hasn't been seen yet and added to the database. Without this your iPad cannot be located. Unfortunately, there is no way for users to request information to be added to Apple's database.

Go to a public wifi location and see if your location works there.

In settings>general>restrictions is privacy> location services. Could that be the cause of both your problems.

I am having the same problem. I have lived at my location since I purchased the ipad. My locator worked fine. When I did my update , I suspect that also is when I lost it. Nothing else has changed and my settings are correct. I believe the new update has caused this problem. What can I do?

Exact same problem here. My location settings worked before the update. Now I have tried everything. Nothing works. I even tried Skyhook.

It does work away from home. Annoying. 😕

Same here. All location services worked fine. All quit after update. Apple needs to get with it!

I have the same issue. Ios 8.0.2 iPad 4 16Gb Wifi. Siri will say " I have no clue where you are" .. Maps will say "Cannot determine location" .

I tried the reset all settings and reinstalled apps. Still not working. Then thinking this is a problem of geo location over wifi not working. I reset my router (altough upnp on) and briefly it got one locatiopn (of where I am) and then 10 minutes later it had the same problem again.

So then went outside with the iPad , there (using sattrack) it is working fine. So it's WIFI related problem since IOS 8.0.2.

There is NO SOLUTION whatsoever untill APPLE will fix this in the next update, so meanwhile, forget "Maps, "Siri", "Find my Iphone/ipad", "Find my friends" ... in short find anything....

Sincerely thinking that saving blobs and going back to former IOS versions shouldn't be a HASSLE but a STANDARD OPTION in ITUNES ! Because now it renders my iPAD useless untill APPLE decides to look into it SOME DAY! Unacceptable !

All go here https://www.apple.com/feedback/ to report issues.

Regards

Location services are not working on my iphone5s. I've done a reset but still the location service is not working. Please help me 😟

HI, I have the same model iPad and today had the exact same problem. Location services suddenly stopped working . Google maps, find myiPhone, etc all not working. Yet, the compass app worked and knew exactly where I was.

I then powered the device off and on again and location services are all back to normal. So I think Apple may have a wee bug or two in the latest IOS.

MY husband and I both have iPad Air. He has not upgraded to iOS 9.2 but I have and since being in Las Vegas but now back in the uk, mine still thinks I am in Vegas. Very annoying if there is not a fix as it messes up my schedule.

Mine worked last week and now it won't work this week.

I didn't change any settings from then to now.

I haven't changed any hardware.

Annoyed.

I just updated Google Maps, now location services don't work on my iPad Air, neither for Google Maps, Sygic or 'GPS Locator'. . . Still working on my Android, which also only connects through Wifi.