[Solved]Why Does It Say Location not Available

No Location Found vs Location Not Available

First of all, we should distinguish the location not found iPhone issue and location not available on iMessage, it's not the same issue but may use the same solution to fix it.

What does no location found mean on Find My Friends? It means that no location found of the friend on Find My Friend APP or Find My APP when you want to track someone. It's the location of your friend's iPhone/iPad is unavailable.


What does location not available mean? It means that the location of your iPhone is unavailable rather than your friend's location. You can't get your iPhone location and share the exact location information for your iMessage contact.


It's the location of your iDevice or the location of your friends' iDevice location, it's almost using the same tips to fix location not working issue on iDevice. When location not available or location not found, please try all tips one by one.

• Check Location Service Turned On or Not
• Bluetooth Turned On or Not
• The APP is Using Share My Location
• Reboot Your iPhone
• Restore iPhone from iTunes
• Factory Reset iPhone from Settings
• Find My Friends No Location Found
• Fake Location When Location Not Available

Check Location Service Turned On or Not

Go to Settings>Privacy>Location Service, if the Location Service is off, turn it on. It's an essential condition for iPhone location. Generally, you don't turn it off, the Location Service is used widely in the case that you're using your iPhone, it's one necessary requirement to use iPhone normally.

Bluetooth Turned On or Not

You'll notice that, below the Location Service feature on iPhone settings, there is the location alerts about using Location Service: the Location Service uses not only the gps, but also the Bluetooth and the available mobile data, so even the Location Service feature was enabled in advance, you should be sure that the Bluetooth was turned on, and the mobile data is strong and stable.

The APP is Using Share My Location

The location not available on iMessage, you can't send your location information to your friend coming with the iMessages, go to Settings > Privacy > Location Service > Share My Location > iMessage, select one option to allow the using of Location Service when you're using iMessage-you can tap on While Using APP or Always to get the Location Service when you go to iMessage to send messages to your friends with the exact location information.
Under iMessage APP, if you tAPPed on Never, the location not available on iMessage, just switch to While Using APP or Always to make iMessage location available. Then go to iMessage to send message to your friend with your exact location information.

Reboot Your iPhone

The location not available iPhone, after all checks the Location Service/Bluetooth/network are all enabled, reboot your iPhone, hold the power button to turn it off and then turn it on after a while. When iPhone restarts, go to iMessage to check the location is available or not.

Restore iPhone from iTunes

When iPhone location not available, and you've backed up iPhone data to iTunes, you can restore from iTunes. Link iPhone to computer and then launch the iTunes on PC, from the Summary section of iTunes, tap on Restore iPhone button to restore iPhone. All data and settings will be restored to the factory settings.

Factory Reset iPhone from Settings

When you want to restore iPhone without computer, restore iPhone from iPhone settings. Go to Settings>General>Reset>Erase All Data and Settings, enter iPhone passcode to confirm the operation, because all data and settings will be erased, you'd better be sure that all data was backed up.

Find My Friends No Location Found

In the case that no location found on Find My Friend APP, you can't get your friend location information, the Location Service/network/Bluetooth are all enabled on your own iPhone, apart from all tips above, the following solutions are for your friend iPhone:

Sign in Find My Friend APP
On your friend iPhone, not only the Location Service/network/Bluetooth should be enabled, your friend should sign in Find My Friend APP using the Apple id and Apple id passcode.

Correct Data and Time
On your friend iPhone, go to Settings>General>Data&Time, correct iPhone data and time one more time to sync location information to Find My Friend so that you can get your friend exact location information from Find My Friend APP.


Share My Location on Location Service
On your friend iPhone, the Share My Location feature should be enabled to share the exact location to all friends in Find My Friends list. Go to Settings>Privacy>Location Service>Share My Location, turn on the Find My iPhone and Share My Location.

Fake Location When Location Not Available

All tips above can't fix location not available issue on your iPhone, EelPhone Location Faker can fake location and share the virtual location information to your friends-it's one iPhone GPS changer, you can select any location all over the world.


Step 1: Download EelPhone Location Faker to your PC. Launch the location faker after installation. The first feature on the left side is enough to fix location not available on iPhone. Tap on the Enter button to switch to the next interface.


Step 2: Plug the location not available iPhone to computer, and select one fake location from the map on the location faker.


Step 3: The fake location was selected, tap on the Start Modify button to change iPhone location to that you've selected.


The location not available iPhone will pop to the fake location, you can share the fake location with your friends from iMessage APP. Before restarting your iPhone in the next time, your iPhone is in the fake location you selected.

Not only the location not available iPhone, when Find My iPhone no location found, your friends can also use the EelPhone Location Faker to create one virtual location so that you can find location on Find My Friend.

Location not available meaning your iPhone Location Service gets wrong, no location found iPhone meaning your friend iPhone Location Service get wrong. But the tips to solve the location issue on your iPhone is almost same, follow all tips above and try one by one.