Q: Can I make Apple iCloud locate New Brunswick better than "near Toronto"?
Recently changed my Apple user account password.
Since that, I'm dealing with trying to settle down the iCloud from constantly sending 2-factor authentication alerts every time I do anything - but that's not my main question.
Rather, it is about the disconcerting way Apple tells me that my mac mini or iPad sitting within arm's length of me in a city in New Brunswick, is a device located "near Toronto" (a "fact" which is (un)helpfully verified by a little map).
Now, I know Canada doesn't matter on the world stage, but it does matter to me whether someone near Toronto is trying to abuse my Apple account. And while I'm pretty sure most of these times it's me their lousy geography is referring to, the odd time when maybe a family member is using an iPad away from my view, or such, and I get the alert on the device I am using - well, how am I to know?
So: is this just normal Apple geo-ignorance? Anyone know of a
And yes, I have location services on for both iPads and the mini.
running Mavericks on late-2012 mac mini, and iOS 9 on iPad mini 2 and iPad mini 4
iPad Mini, iOS 9.3.1
Posted on May 14, 2016 7:03 AM