![]() Now I look here and I see WiFi connected and it shows me my network name. ![]() If I disable WiFi I have that same location problem. You can see, indeed, I've got Ethernet and WiFi. What you want to do is to go into System Preferences under Network and here you'll see all of your connections listed on the left. I just want to be connected to my wired connection. ![]() So in my case I'm connected to WiFi and my wired connection. If you turn on WiFi you'll find that you're suddenly connected to your local WiFi networks. So you have to type in an address or zip code or something like that.īut here's the problem. Or you may be on a webpage, like say you want to look up movie times, and you decide yeah what are my closest theaters and hit the button that then should just show you your closest theaters but it doesn't because your Mac doesn't know where it is. But if you do and say you're in Maps and you hit the little location button you're going to get this message saying you need to turn WiFi on. People have a variety of reasons why they want to use a wired connection rather than WiFi. Now why would you have WiFi turned off? Well in my case I have a desktop Mac and I have it right next to my actual internet connection so I just have it wired connection over there instead of using WiFi. So if you have WiFi turned off your Mac doesn't know where it is. ![]() This is also what mobile phones, like the iPhone, do primarily but they have GPS and also cell towers as other sources. So instead it looks at the local WiFi networks and uses them to actually figure out where you're located. It can't detect your location from reading the information from a GPS satellite. Why is that? Well, there's no GPS chip in your Mac. Video Transcript: On your Mac if you want to use Location Services, in other words have your Mac automatically determine where you're located, you need to have WiFi turned on. Check out How To Use Location Services On Your Mac Without Wi-Fi at YouTube for closed captioning and more options. ![]()
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