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Why is the map/location for 2 step verification completely wrong?

Whenever I am signing into anything with 2 step verification, I notice that the notification on my phone says that I'm signing in from a location that is completely incorrect. (i.e.: Portland, ME...) I thought it was just me when I asked a few friends with 2 step verification if they had seen this before. Several of them said that this was the case for them. Does anyone know the reason why this happens? Is it bouncing from a server there or is Apple Maps just acting really weird again? 😉

iPhone 6s Plus, iOS 9.3.2

Posted on Jul 5, 2016 5:22 AM

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Icelyn

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47 points

Posted on Jul 2, 2017 8:26 AM

Oh Apple is always "watching" or "here" if you will. I posted "following" on a thread once and received an e-mail saying my post had been deleted since it didn't contribute to the topic. 😐

It is very frustrating that the "location" for apple ID verify is for me 350 miles away. How on earth can this POSSIBLY be the IP address I am using? I have only started having this trouble since I changed my apple password. And since I currently live in a very small city and the city it keeps pinging me from is millions population, the odds that someone *might* be attempting to hack me from that city are very high so the whole thing just stinks.

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fromsouth

Level 5

4,945 points

Sep 30, 2016 3:29 AM in response to Tjerk Houthuysen

You have 2 options. You are free to choose.

1. let apple know on their feedback site

http://www.apple.com/feedback/

2. start working for them as developer/designer.

Jun 16, 2017 10:25 PM in response to fromsouth

If your device has GPS in it, like my iPhone and iPad do,

WHY DOESNT IT SHOW THE TRUE MAP LOCATION instead of. City 200 miles away?

Jun 16, 2017 10:50 PM in response to LACAllen

Yes I saw that but can't figure out WHY they don't use the GPS. Politics? Laziness in code?

Find my IPhone does use it.

"Do you want to allow a login 200 miles away?"

Duh!

Jun 16, 2017 11:05 PM in response to LACAllen

My question was WHY?

in English we use WHY when we want to know the reason for something, especially something apparently stupid

Jun 16, 2017 11:14 PM in response to William Donelson

No one from Apple is here. We are just users like you, so we don't know WHY the process is designed the way it is. And as LACAllen has indicated, we cannot speculate on WHY either.