Why is my husbands phone showing wrong location

[Justacigarette]

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?

Mine has been extremely inaccurate in the past. My family like to track me when I go running and I went out for a run and got a message "I didn't know you were in New York!" and I hadn't left the UK. Another time I had just come in and my husband showed me on his phone that I was in Beijing!

My concerns about the location were nothing at all related to suspicions that my husband was having an affair. I actually thought his phone had been stolen.

Do you work for Tesco?

Yes sometimes my DD at uni shows her in the middle of a field somewhere. Then she texts me and is in the library. Just take it that the satellite is off for a bit then will correct later.

That doesn’t make it any better. Worrying that so many grown adults are normalising this.

It isn’t useful in the way you’re pretending it is. If poor DH can’t wait 20 mins to eat when he gets home then he can text when he’s leaving the gym. Or tell you what time he’ll be back as he leaves. Or, wild idea I know, just wait a few minutes.

This . I get exactly the same

But why are you checking?

Your adult daughter is away at uni, she’s moved out, living her life and learning to stand on her own two feet. Middle of the afternoon and she’s working in the library and her mum is sitting at home stalking her (with inaccurate results). It’s just fucking bizarre

I'm the same I find it highly irritating having a plate. of food put in front of me the minute I step through the door. For heaven's sake let me got my shoes off, freshen up and have a cuppa first

I know - still a bit stressful and inaccurate..

Nobody needs to eat the minute they walk through the door. And I do think people love to track their spouses - just being nosey - and dress it up as checking when to get the dinner on…

No, but it was on the same retail park

Why is this bothering you so much how other adults are using technology? I agree, that in an abusive relationship, this could be used as a tool of abuse. But otherwise, why are you so wound up?

I’m being nosey as I recognise the place from the back of tesco packaging, and imagine a beautiful town

Doesn't pasta take like 7 minutes?

I think the idea that it's a perfectly normal thing to do (it isn't) normalises it for those who will abuse it.

Mate, I’m not wound up. Nobody is tracking me 😂 I think maybe you are protesting just a little too much.

Let’s face facts. This relatively new phenomenon is not normal but grown adults are adamant that it is normal, they are justifying it with extremely loose and weak reasoning (pasta anyone?). Teenagers are leaving for uni and instead of a sense of freedom, responsibility and self sufficiency, they’ve got mummy sitting watching their every move and panicking when it suggests they are in a field or speeding down a river.

The fact you checked your husbands location when you already knew he was at the gym with your son is weird enough. But then you panicked because he was “somewhere he’d never go” (how do you know that I wonder?!) and then, hours later, it was still niggling at you enough that you made a thread about it.

Isn't a more normal (healthy?) arrangement simply that he tells you what time he'll be home/you tell him what time dinner will be? Or that he waits 7 minutes for the pasta to cook 🤣

@Justacigarette can’t believe how irate people are getting.

i think it’s a great tool for getting dinner sorted tbh and my daughter likes to track when daddy is nearly home and greet him at the door which is sweet :-)

when you go on WiFi it sometimes stops tracking location mine does this when I’m at the gym. Just take the location with a pinch of salt sometimes

Its a nice looking town, but i find it a bit soulless. There's a decent John Lewis, a big Sainsbury's, a few independent shops and lots of bars, restaurants and charity shops. Its worth a walk around if you're nearby but not really worth travelling to.

For clarity, I hate men in general and do not trust ANY of them. That said, my phone does this all the time. I don’t think it’s anything to worry about, I think it’s maybe just the closest tower etc. wouldn’t hurt to keep a check on it though.

It’s not always 100% accurate. Sometimes my husbands location show in somewhere completely random when I know he is on the tube, for example.

I wasn’t panicking: more thinking that his phone was stolen and it was going to be a pain in the arse to sort out. But yeah, I was curious as to how accurate these trackers actually are