HomeKit Home Wrong Location

Had it happen again this morning. When I went to bed everything was still fine, and at 5am I was woken up by a flurry of notifcations because the home location had shifted about 600 meters north and i wasn't "at home" anymore.

I don't understand how it gets to that place, I don't even pass near there regularly.

This time resetting significant locations on my phone and restarting didn't fix it, i also had to do the same on my ipad and reboot the home hubs. It's so annoying

And 3 days later here we go again. This time it's a bit closer, only 250 meters away. But so far no luck with any of the previous fixes. Reset significant locations on all devices of all home members, restarted them all. Restarted all home hubs. Also tried that suggestion above with taking down the home network altogether, but it still insists my home is a few streets away

I have the same issue: My home has drifted down a few streets so no automations work anymore.

I've tried clearing the significant locations and that has not worked.

I can confirm that in my contacts card & on Maps the home information is correct.

Yes. With the Mac. I just mentioned all the other things I have tried.

at first those “fixes” worked for a few days. Maybe even a week. Now they don’t even last a day. Also the home “moving back” to the correct location happens sooner, but it breaks the automations and they run when they shouldn’t.

Have you also tried to clear the history of the significant locations? It was the only working workaround for me.

In case you haven't tried yet, this is path to follow:

Settings -> Privacy & Security -> Location Service -> System Services -> Significant Location

And the click on "Clear History".

Exact same issue. Broken since iOS 17. Home pin is right on the edge of the 100m radius for automations and I can’t change it or save a change to the radius. Location based automations are triggering completely randomly so I have lights turning on in the middle of the night with a notification that “Someone arrived home” or turning off when I’m home with a notification that “Everyone left home”. Nothing works to fix it for more than a few hours.

And you have tried this that getangar suggested:

Have you also tried to clear the history of the significant locations? It was the only working workaround for me.

In case you haven't tried yet, this is path to follow:

Settings -> Privacy & Security -> Location Service -> System Services -> Significant Location

And the click on "Clear History".

Then restart your iPhone.

Did anyone have the issue reoccur after iOS 17.1.1? I had 3 occurrences under 17.1 that I solved with the significant locations reset (though the last one took several hours to show effect). But since iOS 17.1.1 it has not happened again

I', having this same issue and was tearing up my setup thinking that I somehow broke something. I just spent 50 min on the phone with Apple Care and it turns out that this is a relatively new problem but they are aware of this issue and are supposedly looking for a resolution. At-least I can stop recreating automations and reseting crap that has nothing to do with the issue. I guess we'll have to wait to see if they fix this in the next big update.

Unfortunately, I have the same issue. My location is about 100 meters away from my home. I can’t use any automations. I already reset my location, reboot my network and all Apple Home Hubs but nothing works.

What a clusterf**k! I just upgraded to iOS 17.1.2 and my location based automation stopped working. Never had an issue before, but as stated in this thread, HomeKit thinks my house is about 300 ft from where it actually is and nothing seems to fix it.

Fortunately, I only had a simple automation that triggers my Arrive Home scene and I only had it set up for when I arrive home, so I changed it to a personal automation for now.

Following up on my own post. Just had an idea. Went to Settings | Storage and offloaded the Home app, then reinstalled it and now it has my home in the correct location. Let's see how long it stays that way.

I don't know what you consider a lot. I have less than a handful of automations, but I have a number of sensors and devices. No, offloading didn't cause any issues. Offloading doesn't delete any vital data. It just gets rid of the app and temp files and then freshly downloads the app and reinstalls. It's easier and quicker than wiping the phone and restoring from a backup. The automations run on your hub anyway. FWIW, I'm on the new HomeKit architecture.

Maybe yesterday i didn’t have to the post about the problem was fixed.

During the night my automation when i’m not at home e was activated. So i open find my app and for few second my iPhone it was in status: no found location. After few second location come back on and my iPhone appear at home and the automation when i’m at home was activated. I hope it was only a sporadic case

I have two hubs (Apple TVs) and they didn't prevent me from offloading the Home app. Have you switched to the new Homekit architecture? With the old architecture, the Homekit configuration was maintained on the phone, so I could see how that would prevent offloading the app. But with the new architecture, the configuration is maintained by the hubs. The new Homekit architecture switched to a hub centric approach, and the Home app is just a client talking to the hub, so offloading it doesn't risk losing the configuration. Could also be because I'm not the only user. My wife is the second user, so my phone is not the only device that has control over my home. Are you a single user?

My home location is still correct since I did the offloading/reinstalling of the Home app, so this issue appears to be caused by corrupt data, which gets cleared when the app is offloaded or I suppose a factory reset and then restoring from a backup would work as well, but that's more drastic than offloading and reinstalling just the Home app.