Why is my husbands phone showing wrong location

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DH and I share location on our phones.

Went to check his location to see if he was on way home from gym. But it was in a very random place that he would never be. I was a bit worried that someone had stolen his phone.
suddenly the phone showed that he was at the gym (phone had been in a locker)

the locations were a couple of miles away.

any idea what could have caused this?

I don’t time it for pasta. 😂 But the traffic where we live is awful and I want to know if we should wait 5 mins so we can eat together as a family or my hangry kids should get started without him. We moved so my child with additional needs could closer to a new school, and it meant changing his commute from cycling or an easy 10 min drive to over a hour through terrible traffic. I feel bad for him missing out on more family life during the week and we try to eat as a family where we can.

Tracking lunacy again. Just stop it. And stop with the ‘ it helps me put the pasta on in time’ excuses

That can happen

Even at home - centre of a village - my phone can sometimes think it’s in a town 7 miles away. Location accuracy isn’t always brilliant.

My phone often shows my location as being a couple of miles or so away from home when I am sitting on my sofa.

That is awful. Why on earth was he tracking you at 3am?

Why would he check your location at 3am?

God forbid they should wait to eat
Lunacy!

they’re not a hundred percent accurate especially with poor signal, dh uses a tracking app when he’s travelling back home when it’s a long journey. Instead of him on the a9 it will often show him suddenly in a field or miles away on a random road

Sounds to me like the perfect excuse if he is having an affair. I would be really cautious and consider hiring a private detective.

I wouldn't worry too much - these things are often inaccurate due to lousy signal. My DC and I are all on Life 360 (just the basic app), and we all have iPhones (so have the find my phone thing switched on). Useful for finding the tech (well, me finding my tech when I put it down in the house and can't bloody find it!). Handy for having a look to see if DC are on their way home from school/work/night out (my eldest works shifts)....but sometimes timings or places are slightly out of whack.

That's not normal!

Very random place ... Drug cartel, hiding bodies?
😂
Basically what others said, OP.
All is most probably good.

My car has been insisting that I’m in Belgium for quite some time. Imagine it’s delight when a few weeks ago, we were actually in Belgium.

I refuse to activate location and tracking on my phone and won't spy on anyone else either. As has been shown, it causes suspicion and stress.

Presumably because the signal is poor in the locker.
All this tracking isn't healthy. You knew he was at the gym, he'll be home when he's done. Do you really need to know when, down to the minute? It's weird.

I track my exercise on strava and the map afterwards jumps all over my town/where I am even if I haven't been anywhere near there🤔 does it on other apps too

Honestly, OP, this level of surveillance isn’t healthy. If you weren’t really afraid his phone had been stolen, but that he was having sex in a lay-by with slutty Mags from his Pilates class, then that’s your problem, not glitchy tech.

DH and I don’t share locations. He did recently check his own history out of curiosity though, after I’d told him about a couple who almost divorced over location sharing fuck ups.

He was most surprised to discover he’d been travelling extensively around Europe for the previous few months, without even realising.

My sons did this even though he was in the same location as his Dad.

This is creepy and controlling, tracking people is not reliable it can glitch even if it was a good idea in the first place

I’d be really disappointed if he was. Especially as our son was with him at the gym.

If I’m honest it’s a bit of a novelty for us at the moment. We randomly message each other to ask silly questions and send silly texts about where each other are. And it’s useful when I leave my phone somewhere.

It’s not about stalking in our relationship: but I can understand how it could be used that way

I agree that it’s not a good thing. But the pasta thing is often quoted as a justification….

Self fulfilling prophecy- that did make me laugh

Definitely shagging someone else at the mystery location. Hope you confronted him and kicked him out the house.

Or might have just been shit signal.