How does a VPN on a mobile device hide my location but location finding apps like weather still show me at my real location?

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This obviously assumes you disable mobile data and only have WiFi enabled. I’ve seen it on my smart phone when I turn on my VPN it shows that my IP address is at the selected location but my weather app still shows me at my real location.

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A VPN masks your up address to make it look like it’s somewhere else. The weather app isn’t using an ip based location lookup, it’s using your phones location services which uses the gps system to get your phones physical location.

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