iPhone 15 Pro GPS is worthless!

[azerik]

BTW mine was made in July 2023.

What app did you find that can do this?

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[Mach-Lee]

to be fair, the car is further away from the satellites. lol

By about 0.05% (of the total distance to the SAT)...

 

[Kamuelaflyer]

BTW mine was made in July 2023.

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It’s ok, but free

It’d be interesting, although rather useless to us, to see what Apple uses GPS wise. How many satellites, averaging etc. What might h be more useful us to know just what the changed (in layman’s terms) in regards to their gps receiver on the iPhone 15 and/or software. There are too many folks with issues that haven’t had those issues in the past. And as far as we know Ford hasn’t changed a thing related to GPS.

 

[mdolan92869]

It’d be interesting, although rather useless to us, to see what Apple uses GPS eudr. How many satellites, averaging etc. What might h be more useful us to know just what the changed (in layman’s terms) in regards to their gps receiver on the iPhone 15 and/or software. There are too many folks with issues that haven’t had those issues in the past. And as far as we know Ford hasn’t changed a thing related to GPS.

There are the tear-down sites that take new machines apart to see what’s inside. They might have some info about the GPS chip(s). I guess it’s time to head off to Google to find one.

 

[mdolan92869]

There are the tear-down sites that take new machines apart to see what’s inside. They might have some info about the GPS chip(s). I guess it’s time to head off to Google to find one.

Didn’t find anything except sites talking about the India navigation system that Apple now has. But I did find an article saying it’s not just the MME that is having problems. A bunch of others are too. So that tells me it’s an Apple issue, software or hardware or both.

CarPlay GPS issues

 

[azerik]

I think it's probably them derating the number of locked sats because otherwise the GPS module might melt. To me it looks like it yo-yo's about 30% accuracy.
/s

 

[Kamuelaflyer]

I think it's probably them derating the number of locked sats because otherwise the GPS module might melt. To me it looks like it yo-yo's about 30% accuracy.
/s

I’d not bet against that hypothesis. I’m back to using native nav virtually exclusively. Besides, it pronounces Hawaiian street names far better than Siri when I have the audio on.

 

[azerik]

But Siri does a better job than my ex wife did for sure!

 

[txaggies07]

I’d not bet against that hypothesis. I’m back to using native nav virtually exclusively. Besides, it pronounces Hawaiian street names far better than Siri when I have the audio on.

Siri should always be changed to British

 

[mdolan92869]

Siri should always be changed to British

Irish, female

 

[Kamuelaflyer]

Siri should always be changed to British

Irish, female

I have it set to Australian female. So now it mispronounces Hawaiian names with an accent. Waze is far worse though. Ford navigation is pretty close in its pronunciations.

 

[Melancholy1980]

I have a theory that this started after they rolled out offline map support. I notice sometimes the map switches to offline map even though I have cell coverage so the back and forth between offline and online might send the gps haywire. Just a theory at this point though…

 

[txaggies07]

I have a theory that this started after they rolled out offline map support. I notice sometimes the map switches to offline map even though I have cell coverage so the back and forth between offline and online might send the gps haywire. Just a theory at this point though…

Mine went crazy on the iPhone 14 Pro before they rolled that out in beta.

 

[jasdf2345]

I began having this problem a little while ago on my 14 pro. How many that have this issue have a pro model of iphone? I ask because there was a bug that only effected pro models that have two GPS radios installed.

Apple supposedly fixed it, but to me it seems they actually didn't.

iPhone 14 Pro GPS problem just got fixed — thanks to iOS 16.1 beta 2 | Tom's Guide (tomsguide.com)

 

[Kamuelaflyer]

I have a theory that this started after they rolled out offline map support. I notice sometimes the map switches to offline map even though I have cell coverage so the back and forth between offline and online might send the gps haywire. Just a theory at this point though…

Better theory than mine, which was Elon Musk miniaturized and multiplied himself in an experimental transporter beam accident then entered all our phones and messed with the GPS software/hardware so we’d get mad and buy Tesla’s. We’re on to you Elon! Umm, I mean, yours is as good a theory as any.

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