iPhone 13 Pro Max Phone thinks I’m at my old house

[mrochester]

Hi.

I have moved house but when connected to wifi in my new house (same network as my old house) my phone still thinks I am in my old house.

Does anyone know how to get the phone to realise I am now in a different location when connected to wifi?

Many thanks.

M.

 

[kinga]

The phone has its location settings. It may use to regulate your location. Turn on your phone's location services.

 

[mrochester]

The phone has its location settings. It may use to regulate your location. Turn on your phone's location services.

Location services are switched on. The problem seems to be my phone thinks this wifi network is located somewhere it isn’t and is showing my location based on being connected to that network.

If I turn wifi off on my phone it shows my correct new location.

 

[phone73284]

Hi.

I have moved house but when connected to wifi in my new house (same network as my old house) my phone still thinks I am in my old house.

Does anyone know how to get the phone to realise I am now in a different location when connected to wifi?

Many thanks.

M.

what model is your phone?

 

[mrochester]

what model is your phone?

13 Pro Max.

 

[eyoungren]

Hi.

I have moved house but when connected to wifi in my new house (same network as my old house) my phone still thinks I am in my old house.

Does anyone know how to get the phone to realise I am now in a different location when connected to wifi?

Many thanks.

M.

A couple of things to try.

1. Forget your home WiFi network and then add it back.

2. Reset Network settings. From Apple… "Reset your Network Settings. Tap Settings > General > Reset > Reset Network Settings. This also resets Wi-Fi networks and passwords, cellular settings, and VPN and APN settings that you’ve used before."

 

[ericwn]

Maybe renaming the WiFi would also work but I’m not sure.

 

[Cruncher]

Do you have your Significant Locations on? If so under "Settings->Privacy->Location Services->Significant Locations" you should delete your old Home Address. Maybe also forget the Wifi Network before and reconnect. This should solve the issue.

 

[phone73284]

Maybe renaming the WiFi would also work but I’m not sure.

I have tried renaming the WiFi, this worked for me and definitely to mrochester

 

[LegendaryKelpie]

I have had this same issue. The problem is your Wi-Fi router. Servers such as google will keep your location saved for quicker loading times. You'll need to wait until they save new information about your location, or buy a new router. I waited over 2 weeks with no solution and bought a new router and it was fixed that day.

 

[jeremysteele]

Servers such as google will keep your location saved for quicker loading times.

I suspect you are confusing two different things. Geo-based load balancing uses a combination of DNS tricks and routing configurations made in conjunction with your ISP (or their upstream provider) for specific major networks (google, akamai, AWS, etc). Your router won't have an effect on how traffic is routed once it leaves your LAN. At most you could set it up with some weird DNS servers that may change how DNS load balancing occurs.

BSSID databases on the other hand, are often way out of date. Google apps for instance will use a BSSID database to attempt to get a more accurate location. Apple does the same.

For the problem OP had - as others have said, resetting your wifi settings, toggling locations, etc may fix the problem. If that doesn't work, it may just be an outdated BSSID database. In that case no need to get a new router, just wait for it to fix itself.

In the past I've heard that you can flag your location as inaccurate in Apple Maps and that will update their database, but I'm not sure how accurate that is these days.