Findmyphone does not FindmyMacbook Pro

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Findmyphone does not FindmyMacbook Pro

I have spend hours on this and obviously am to close to the trees. My wife and I have an iPAD Air each, an iPHONE 5 each and I have a MacBook PRO. Findlay phone plays well with all the family except the laptop. We moved three months ago and the Laptop says it is at the old house. I can play a sound and lock it just fine. I jut cannot get it to move. Can someone tell me how to get this cantankerous device to report correctly? Thank ou.

MacBook Pro, iOS 8.1.3

Posted on Feb 26, 2015 5:13 PM

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Answer 1

Feb 26, 2015 8:44 PM in response to gregory156

System Preferences > Privacy > Location Services > [√] Enable Location Services

grant access to Applications that have to do with Find My Mac. (I am not sure which these are. I have granted requests from Safari, iStumbler, Maps, and Calendar.)

System Preferences > Date&Time> Time Zone > [V] Set Time Zone automatically based on Current Location

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Answer 2

Feb 26, 2015 9:24 PM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder

OS X Mavericks: About Find My Mac

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Answer 3

lllaass

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Feb 27, 2015 1:56 AM in response to gregory156

For wifi only devices (not iPhone or iPad with cellular since they have GPS) the device use the location of nearby wifi networks that are in Apples database. Since you moved Apple has not yet updated their database. Apple up[dates their database based on information obtained by iPhones and maybe iPads with cellular radio. No one has found a way for overly get Apple to update their database.

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gregory156 Author

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Mar 3, 2015 8:13 PM in response to gregory156

Sorry for all of the typos. I missed them or spellcheck went crazy helping me.

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gregory156 Author

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Mar 3, 2015 8:15 PM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder

I tried this, no help. Thank you however.

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gregory156 Author

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Mar 3, 2015 8:18 PM in response to lllaass

Based on this it just fixes itself some day. If it happens I will let you know.

Makes no sense why they would log what appears to be a static located device however.

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Answer 7

Mar 4, 2015 5:27 AM in response to gregory156

Take it out and connect to a Router whose internal Location is accurate. The Apple Store would be good, but any public network will do. Then it should show up as the location of that new network.

If that works, then you can assure yourself that when your Router location gets updated, everything will work as expected.

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