"Find My" gets my home address wrong

When I look on the Find My app, my various devices all appear with an address that is the house next door to me. When I leave a device behind at home, I get a notice from Find My that my device is at the house next door. In all cases, the device is always at my actual home. I went to change the "notify me" settings, which I'd like to set so that it doesn't notify me when my devices are at my actual home address, instead of the incorrect neighbor's address the software is making up. However, I cannot see any way to tell "Find My" that I don't live at my neighbor's house instead of my own. Is there a way to tell Find My what my actual home address is and have it list all of my devices being there instead of, falsely, at my neighbor's house?

iPhone 14 Pro

Posted on Feb 15, 2023 07:11 PM

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Posted on Feb 24, 2023 08:30 PM

Thank you. I will keep trying that and seeing if I can trick the computer into behaving long enough to do the setting. What I am trying to do is tell "Find My" to stop notifying me that I have left my Mac behind when I leave home -- an address loaded into my identification on my Mac. So I go into the relevant place and am given the option to tell it not to bother notifying me if I leave the device at what the Mac understands is my home address (say 1234 Main St.), so I click to say, yes, not if I leave it at home at 1234 Main St. Which is just what I want, but then the Mac confirms my selection by then informing me that I won't be notified when I leave the Mac at 1254 Main St., which is not what I had just asked it to do, not the home address I just told it to use, and not an address I want to train the Mac to recognize as mine. I get it that the Mac can't really tell the difference between addresses within a few 100 feet of each other, but still I don't want to leave the setting on the address of my... interesting neighbors instead of my own address. It's not the end of the world to be told I left the Mac behind whenever I leave the house, so I don't mind messing with it for a while as I figure out this Mac (my first one after a lifetime of PC use -- so far it is driving me nuts, but I figure that's the price of admission for changing to a different user interface/operating system). Again, thank you for your reply. I'll reboot periodically and see if I can get a better result.

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Feb 24, 2023 08:30 PM in response to Bob Timmons

Thank you. I will keep trying that and seeing if I can trick the computer into behaving long enough to do the setting. What I am trying to do is tell "Find My" to stop notifying me that I have left my Mac behind when I leave home -- an address loaded into my identification on my Mac. So I go into the relevant place and am given the option to tell it not to bother notifying me if I leave the device at what the Mac understands is my home address (say 1234 Main St.), so I click to say, yes, not if I leave it at home at 1234 Main St. Which is just what I want, but then the Mac confirms my selection by then informing me that I won't be notified when I leave the Mac at 1254 Main St., which is not what I had just asked it to do, not the home address I just told it to use, and not an address I want to train the Mac to recognize as mine. I get it that the Mac can't really tell the difference between addresses within a few 100 feet of each other, but still I don't want to leave the setting on the address of my... interesting neighbors instead of my own address. It's not the end of the world to be told I left the Mac behind whenever I leave the house, so I don't mind messing with it for a while as I figure out this Mac (my first one after a lifetime of PC use -- so far it is driving me nuts, but I figure that's the price of admission for changing to a different user interface/operating system). Again, thank you for your reply. I'll reboot periodically and see if I can get a better result.

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