Find my shows my wrong location for my friends

No updates. Annoyingly I figure this is a low priority unless it gets picked up by the media outlets to put some pressure on Apple to fixed it. I’m going almost a year now with my location being wrong to friends and family.

Even searching for others who have this problem is a pain because the typical response is “you’re using Find My wrong”. Since Apple updated the timestamp label to default to “now” instead of showing a future timestamp this issue, which is a legitimate issue, gets lumped into the same issue as AirTags updating slowly or friend’s location only updating once a day.

This is a fundamentally broken part of the Find My network that makes it worthless when stuck with a future timestamp. Friends continue to see me in the wrong location and AirTags can possibly be corrupted to not update their correct location anymore. Ridiculous that this issue has existed a year now with no acknowledgment of the issue and no indication of an upcoming fix.

That is an insane number of hoops to go through. I’m hopeful enough people are reporting this bug to apple so it gets fixed.

Hey there same problem here. If you change your system time to a future date, then open find my then it will corrupt your shared location. The location will be stuck on wherever you were when the time was changed. Your friends will see that location with the “now” timestamp. Once the future date that was originally used passes then the location will start to update again. This has been a bug for the past year. Hoping for a resolution soon.

Any update to this? It’s quite an annoying bug. Makes my friends think less of Apple for not fixing this quickly. A future dated my phone to get a large app update over cellular and now my location always shows at home. Nothing I do fixes it, and I’ve tried everything.

Campulina Said:

"Find my shows my wrong location for my friends: my find my app show my location when i was in vacation. I am stuck there. How can i fix?"

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Troubleshooting Find My:

Clarify your Post:

So, are you saying that you cannot see your iPhone where you currently are, and that it is showing af this former location? Or are you saying that you have not left yet, and it is showing you when you currently are?

Some Thoughts:

A. Use Siri:

Open Siri, and then say something like "Show my Location in Fiind My". Learn More Here: How to Use Siri on your iPhone - Apple Support

B. Troubleshooting Find My on an iPhone:

Be certain Find My is set up correctly.

1. Set Up: Set up Find My On your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac - Apple Support

2. Add: How to Turn On Find My for your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support

3. Use: Locate a Device in Find My on iPhone - Apple Support

rexiisaur Said:

“do we know if restoring the phone via iTunes fixes this problem? I'm having the same issue.”

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Restoring iPhone from a Backup:

Doing so, you’d clear your caches. Caches remember application use, so that they operate in ease of operation. So, it may just work. Perform the my User Tip, and report back the results: How to Clear "Other" in your iPhone's Storages - Apple Community

I have fixed this myself after months of trying different things. Context - one of my family members appeared as being permanently at work when looking at the "people" tab in 'Find My', whereas when you then selected 'devices' - all of his devices would show the correct location. Very annoying.

Solution that worked for me.

ON HIS PHONE (the account showing an incorrect location)

1. Open 'Find My'
2. Select anyone you are sharing your location with and scroll to the bottom and select "stop sharing my location"
3. Repeat this until you are not sharing your location with anybody
4. Close Find My
5. Press and hold 'Find My' app and delete the app
6. Go to settings
7. Click the name of the person at the top (Apple Account, iCloud etc.)
8. Select "Find My"
9. Turn Find My iPhone off (enter apple password)
10. Toggle "share my location" and turn it off
11. Delete "Find My" app from any iPads or other devices that the person has
12. Restart iPhone
13. Go to App Store
14. Download Apple 'Find My' app and reinstall it
15. Open Find My app
16. Invite people to share your location - and invite all those you previously deleted
17. Go back to Settings, click the name, select Find My - and make sure that Share My Location is turned on, and that the My Location shows "This device (and mobile data apple watches) if they have one
18. Reinstall Find My on other devices such as iPads etc.

I hope this helps everyone. We have been experiencing this for over 6 months hoping that the next iOS would fix it. After iOS 18 was released and did not fix it, I spent hours working on this and the above formula was what got the job done.

The family member is now correctly appearing in their live location regardless of whether I am looking at the Friends or Devices tab.

Nick from Australia

do we know if restoring the phone via iTunes fixes this problem? I'm having the same issue.