When my iPhone was in Tucson, Google thought it was in Japan
a year ago
- #iPhone
- #Geolocation
- iPhone in Tucson showed Japanese Google results due to cellular IP issue.
- Problem occurred only on cellular data, not WiFi.
- Google's IP-geolocation mapping had stale data from SoftBank Japan.
- AT&T assigned new IP addresses in Arizona and New Mexico.
- Google's internal database incorrectly mapped these IPs to Japan.
- Other users in Arizona reported similar issues.
- ChatGPT suggested the issue stems from outdated Google IP-geolocation data.
- Fix requires Google to update its IP-geolocation mappings.