How to set my location manually so I can use Apple Maps

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Background: I am switching to Apple Maps from Google Maps. Unfortunately, unlike with Google Maps, searching “Restaurants near [your place]” will not work.

When I use my browser and allow maps.apple.com my location, it simply use my internet location, which isn’t my real one since I use a VPN.

What I would want is be able to set my location manually. I don’t want my precise location, I will just select a nearby point in my city. I also need it to be consent-based, preferably only give it to browsers.

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Pretty sure there’s no easy solution for that. In Google Maps one can set their location IIRC. Better contact Apple Forums or whatever they are called.

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See for some background:

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I saw geoclue2 was installed on my system so I did give it a try:

> /usr/libexec/geoclue-2.0/demos/where-am-i
Client object: /org/freedesktop/GeoClue2/Client/1

New location:
Latitude:    41.336480°
Longitude:   2.116970°
Accuracy:    0 meters
Altitude:    14.000000 meters
Description: Static location
Timestamp:   Thu 19 Mar 2026 07:22:27 CET (1773901347 seconds since the Epoch)

That is ~1200 km from the location I am writing this.

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