Geolocation trouble on apple map, weather app and Safari

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RUAM77 Author

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Geolocation trouble on apple map, weather app and Safari

Hi all! Any one does run into the trouble like me with geolocation:

not working my location in Safari, Apple Map and Weather but at the same time
my location is managed to get in Chrome, in different map's web sites

The current status is:

all geolocation services are switched on, tried Safety Mode to switch of and on it (no impact),
changed settings of geolocation in Safari for web sites: from "to ask", "to allow" (no impact). No found any settings in Apple Map regarding geolocation, again all OS geolocation services are switched on,
restored (no impact)

I have no ideas any more. If some one know how to solve it so I kindly ask you to give me a hint pls. ))

ps: iMac has the same trouble, iPhone is working perfectly.

Many thanks,

Aleksandr

MacBook Air 15″, macOS 14.6

Posted on Aug 4, 2024 08:46 AM

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Lawrence Finch

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Aug 5, 2024 12:55 PM in response to RUAM77

Are you using iCloud+ Private Relay for Safari? It hides your location by faking your IP address. Chrome doesn’t have a similar feature (intentionally, because Google spies on everyone it can), so it can determine your approximate location from the location of your IP address and it’s connection to the internet backbone. And Google knows who you are, so if you have ever bought anything using Chrome it knows your shipping/street address.

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Aug 5, 2024 11:56 AM in response to RUAM77

The reason your Mac is having trouble is because your Mac has no GPS chip. It gets what location data it gets from the WiFi network. And that is not always completely accurate.

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