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Wednesday, December 3rd, 2014 7:48 PM

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Why does my phone think i'm in another city?

When ever I search for near by places I am directed to Chicago. Can I fix this. I have an iPhone 5s.

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23.9K Messages

7 years ago


@GLIMMERMAN76 wrote:

it depends on where the ip address the phone has was registered with ICANN.  


@Busternutt

 

dns servers are pain in the rear....  My home ip addy will say im in IOWA sometimes because of ICANN.

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1 Message

6 years ago

Because that is where your server is.... Means your location is either off or gps is not picking it up.

 

 

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2 Messages

6 years ago

Same issue here, exept my iPhone 6s thinks I live in Atlanta.  I live in Memphis.  To my knowledge, my phone has never even been to Atlanta.

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6 years ago

You are calling this a Solution?  You don't think we have tried that?  You are nuts!  This is no solution at all. 

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5 years ago

Settings

General

Reset

Reset privacy & location

 

Then try "whatever" near me

Follow Google prompts

Allow location

Etc etc...

 

Fixed my annoying is 

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9 Messages

1 year ago

There is no fix to this. Att uses cgnat and routes all traffic to main hubs so your location will never be correct with website that doesnt use gps. If everyone starting combating att's cgnat which should be illegal in my opinon we would all be on ipv6 and have betters speeds with more bandwidth too.

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