iPhone weather app displaying wrong location name

brophs

Has anyone had this before? I live on the outskirts of Carlow town and my weather app displays my location as Ballincarrig, a small rural area a few miles away. It's not a big deal, I'm just curious as to why the app doesn't seem to know my location. Is it a mapping issue on Yahoo's side?

Passenger

Happens on most iPhones apparently. The reason is probably that the GPS can only pinpoint your location within a particular distance that's outside your local area boundary.

Cerbera

It happens on my wife, my daughter and my own iPhone here.

All 3 of us could be in the same room and have different locations showing on them ... and none of them the right one

It never bothers us as the weather here is usually the same as it is at the location showing on the app

Piliger

brophs wrote: »

Has anyone had this before? I live on the outskirts of Carlow town and my weather app displays my location as Ballincarrig, a small rural area a few miles away. It's not a big deal, I'm just curious as to why the app doesn't seem to know my location. Is it a mapping issue on Yahoo's side?

How did it establish your location ? Did you add your town in the settings ? the iPhone weather app does not use your location services to establish your location afaik. Someone must have aded Ballincarrig.

guil

Piliger wrote: »

How did it establish your location ? Did you add your town in the settings ? the iPhone weather app does not use your location services to establish your location afaik. Someone must have aded Ballincarrig.

Yes it does, there's even a tab in the weather app to check the weather at your location.

Piliger

guil wrote: »

Yes it does, there's even a tab in the weather app to check the weather at your location.

Not in mine. I have iPhone5 and iOS 7.0.4

shanec1928

Piliger wrote: »

Not in mine. I have iPhone5 and iOS 7.0.4

you enable it in settings. Mine was showing the right location up until a month ago when it started showing a area a few miles away

Piliger

shanec1928 wrote: »

you enable it in settings. Mine was showing the right location up until a month ago when it started showing a area a few miles away

Cannot find this. Sure you are using iOS7 ? Anyway ... have you actually tried to add Carlow as a location ?

Cushie Butterfield

Piliger wrote:

Cannot find this. Sure you are using iOS7 ?

Settings > Privacy > Location Services > Weather

brophs

Piliger wrote: »

How did it establish your location ? Did you add your town in the settings ? the iPhone weather app does not use your location services to establish your location afaik. Someone must have aded Ballincarrig.

No one added Ballincarrig. There are several saved locations, none of which I'm referring to. The top location, which is by default your current location and can't be deleted, says Ballincarrig, even though I'm in Carlow.

guil

Piliger wrote: »

Not in mine. I have iPhone5 and iOS 7.0.4

Look at the symbol for location services.

Piliger

guil wrote: »

Look at the symbol for location services.

Yes. But a) there is no settings for finding your current location in the Settings as you claim. and b) it shows that symbol in every location page.

So I still am convinced that the Ballincarrig location was set in the past and does not represent the phone saying you are in Ballincarrig. I would suggest the OP add Carlow, and deleting Ballincarrig. I would also suggest a hard reset in order to reset the current location setting.

Piliger

Cushie Butterfield wrote: »

Settings > Privacy > Location Services > Weather

That is not a Weather setting but a phone setting. If the current location was set when the phone was physically in Ballincarrig it may have fixed on that location. See my follow up post above.

brophs

Piliger wrote: »

Yes. But a) there is no settings for finding your current location in the Settings as you claim. and b) it shows that symbol in every location page.

So I still am convinced that the Ballincarrig location was set in the past and does not represent the phone saying you are in Ballincarrig. I would suggest the OP add Carlow, and deleting Ballincarrig. I would also suggest a hard reset in order to reset the current location setting.

As I've already said, Ballincarrig was neither added nor can it be deleted. At the top of the weather app your current location is listed. As I'm in Carlow it should say Carlow, but it says Ballincarrig, a few miles away, also in Carlow. I've deleted all other locations and done a hard reset. By all means try to delete your current location. It won't work. By default the app will always show at least one location: your current location.

guil

Piliger wrote: »

Yes. But a) there is no settings for finding your current location in the Settings as you claim. and b) it shows that symbol in every location page.

So I still am convinced that the Ballincarrig location was set in the past and does not represent the phone saying you are in Ballincarrig. I would suggest the OP add Carlow, and deleting Ballincarrig. I would also suggest a hard reset in order to reset the current location setting.

Really? No setting?

When I'm at my parents' house in Kerry, my 5S goes bonkers. The weather app gets my location perfectly but Siri says I'm in Munster - a bit generic! Facebook also detects me as being in Lixnaw which is relatively near but not right.