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HomeKit Home Wrong Location

This morning my HomeKit ecosystem completely broke, all the automations went crazy and I didn't understand why. I then understood why: Apple's "Home" app shows the WRONG home address.

So, suddenly, without sense.


The home location in the contacts card is correct, the home location in Maps is correct.

On the Home app it is wrong and there is no way to change it manually (absurd). I restarted all the devices (aTV, Homepods, iPhones, etc...) and logged out-login on iCloud everywhere.

Why does this happen? how can it be solved? Is it possible that you can't enter the address saved in your Maps favorites on the Home app?


Two things: I've already tried all the wizards and I have no intention of deleting my home from the Home app, I've paired more than 50 devices over the years and I feel sick just thinking about it.


Posted on Sep 30, 2023 1:00 AM

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Posted on Oct 26, 2023 4:56 PM

Ok so this is that pretty common issue people are having with where HomeKit thinks there home is, showing it in an incorrect spot.


It seems this has been a problem for people for a while but only showed up for me in the last day with iOS 17.1. When I check a home automation that uses location is set my home location about 500m away even though its correct in contacts.


I found a fix for now:

Privacy > location > system > significant locations Clear history. Reboot phone. Go back to Home and open automations that use your home locations and check where it thinks home is, mine fixed itself.


BUT! Now thats its fixed I restarted the Home Hub that was being used, and it switched to another Home Hub in my house. As soon as it did it thinks I'm not home again so something to do with the address storing on the home hub too. Did the fix above again and it worked again.

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HomeKit Home Wrong Location

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