Question Weather widget on lockscreen

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MrPeaski

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Jun 4, 2012
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My Pixel 7's weather widget on the lock screen would be useful if it got my location right.
Every time I tap it, it shows the weather for 'My Location', but it thinks I'm in Greater London. Thing is I'm about 160 miles away in South Wales.
I've got all the location permissions set to allow, in Google etc.
I can add my real location as a saved one, but it fails to take this as default.

With Google maps, it picks up my location correctly, so I can't see why the widget doesn't.
Any info as to make it work correctly.

Thanks

Edit stock Android 13 with latest update
 
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MrPeaski

Member
Jun 4, 2012
35
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Google Pixel 4a
Google Pixel 7
This seems to have fixed itself!
This morning the widget still thought I was in Greater London, but now it finds me correctly!
Android Device Policy got updated via the Play Store ( I have auto update off as a couple of apps lose functionality when on their latest versions), and when I used the Assistant (long press on home button) it needed a download and asked me to sign in.
Since then it appears to work :unsure:

Another quirk to this is if on mobile data (4G in my area) I asked the assistant "where am I ", it came back as Greater London, repeating this on when connected to my home WiFi it replied "Cardiff", which is approx 20 miles away, a lot closer but still a bit off.
Re-testing this and its the same :(
 

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    My Pixel 7's weather widget on the lock screen would be useful if it got my location right.
    Every time I tap it, it shows the weather for 'My Location', but it thinks I'm in Greater London. Thing is I'm about 160 miles away in South Wales.
    I've got all the location permissions set to allow, in Google etc.
    I can add my real location as a saved one, but it fails to take this as default.

    With Google maps, it picks up my location correctly, so I can't see why the widget doesn't.
    Any info as to make it work correctly.

    Thanks

    Edit stock Android 13 with latest update
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    Most of the time mine won't even show up, consider yourself lucky!