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iPad iOS 16.6 latest update
is someone in Miami getting my info from my iPad? I have reset it, turned off location sharing etc. nothing works when I put the password in I get a verification code on my iPhone and it shows a map that the iPad is in Miami.
what gives. Don’t know what else to do with it. Is it safe and secure to use?
You have no cause for concern with regard to security and privacy of your iPad or its data.
Only WiFi+Cellular models of iPad have GNSS/GPS functionality - this being a function of the iPad Cellular chipset. WiFi Only models of iPad have no GPS capabilities with which iPad Location Services can derive location. This fundamental difference may significantly impact your apparent location or ability to use mapping Apps - in particular if real-time positioning (e.g., a moving map) is required.
WiFi Only models can only “infer” their location from a database lookup of neighbouring WiFi networks for which the geographic location is known, or the geographic location of your public IP address. For static applications in urban locations, where the location of IP public IP addresses and WiFi networks are known, an “inferred” location can be relatively accurate. However, in rural locations, or when using a Cellular/Satellite/VPN connection, location accuracy of an inferred location [if it works at all] may be very inaccurate.
Location derived solely from your public IP Address can be very inaccurate. Due to internal network routing by your Internet Service Provide (ISP), the IP Address used to derive location may be located a significant distance from your actual location.
You have no cause for concern with regard to security and privacy of your iPad or its data.
Only WiFi+Cellular models of iPad have GNSS/GPS functionality - this being a function of the iPad Cellular chipset. WiFi Only models of iPad have no GPS capabilities with which iPad Location Services can derive location. This fundamental difference may significantly impact your apparent location or ability to use mapping Apps - in particular if real-time positioning (e.g., a moving map) is required.
WiFi Only models can only “infer” their location from a database lookup of neighbouring WiFi networks for which the geographic location is known, or the geographic location of your public IP address. For static applications in urban locations, where the location of IP public IP addresses and WiFi networks are known, an “inferred” location can be relatively accurate. However, in rural locations, or when using a Cellular/Satellite/VPN connection, location accuracy of an inferred location [if it works at all] may be very inaccurate.
Location derived solely from your public IP Address can be very inaccurate. Due to internal network routing by your Internet Service Provide (ISP), the IP Address used to derive location may be located a significant distance from your actual location.
So because I use a VPN it is showing location as Miami FL. If I turn off the VPN will it update location? It is just annoying and a little scary that it always shows Miami as my location when searching for something
In using a VPN service that has its VPN Gateway in Miami, your public IP Address (and derived location) may very well appear to locate you in Miami.
In turning-off your VPN connection, your public IP Address is likely to more local to you.
wifi ipad does not have gps at all it ask the wifi router it's connected to if that has a location and if it does not it will ask the router it's connected to for a location and so forth
it's pretty much the purpose of a vpn to do that
My iPad says it is in Miami FL. I live in Myrtle beach SC I have wifi only iPad
