GPS! SOMEONE realize this is an issue!!

GPS works just fine on both our phones. If you have a problem with your phone, make an appointment at the Genius Bar - http://apple.com/retail/geniusbar

I know several iPhone users and their GPS works very well. Follow Tamara's advice in the post above mine.

Sounds like all of you should be making appointments. Everyone I know with iPhones aren't having any GPS issues.

I'm having the same issue. Here is another thread with the same topic:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2043918

Greetings,

It works fine here, and is as accurate as most any hand held GPS devices. I use it everyday for a walkabout around the campus and the town.

Cheers,
M.
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Try restoring as new (this is generally the last troubleshooting step). This solved several minor issues on my 3G with the 3.0 upgrade.

If this doesn't work, you'll have to return or take it in to Apple.

You're options are limited but pretty straight forward.

Sounds like another disappointing example of our 'instant gratification without understanding the underlying technology' society. Ho hum.

Personally I've found that if I wait for the update cycle on the GPS then it is pretty-much spot-on pretty-much 100% of the time. If I expect it to know RIGHT NOW where I am RIGHT NOW then I am likely to be disappointed (by ANY GPS) 100% of the time!! That's how GPS works though, whether it's iPhone GPS or not! 😉

Many of us fully understand the technology involved and we still don't get a gps lock. It's great to hear that most of you are having no problems, but don't be so quick to accuse everyone else of being ignorant. Do you really think that we are only giving the device a few seconds before coming to the conclusion that it is broken?

Perhaps it's a location issue; but when I attempt to get a gps lock, it quickly gives up and defaults back to the cell tower location path (with the larger blue circle). If I mess with the connections by turning them on and off (with an occasional reboot) it works fine 20% of the time, but when I close the maps and re-enter, it goes back to the cell tower location finder. It seems like some kind of software/timing issue to me.

"Perhaps it's a location issue"

As you don't deign to give a location, who can say? <shrug>

In the UK (us out here in the 'other' world) there doesn't appear to be the same 'issue' (either in expectation, understanding of the technology, or in delivery).... How's MMS in the US btw?

I'm in the Seattle, WA area. Although I doubt it is a location issue in that regard. Just speculating...maybe it has something to do with our service provider and the speed of which the maps open vs. the GPS signal seeking services reaction. All I know is that sometimes it works when I trick it into trying to connect again and most of the time it does not work. Is there a way to force it to attempt another connection? Like I said, it acts like it gives up on GPS and goes straight for the cell tower location process. Once it gets this cell tower location, it does not try again.

Touché on the MMS remark. We are also waiting for tethering over here. It seems that our provider is holding back on these functions for greed purposes (we can start dozens of new threads on this topic).

This is not necessarily an iPhone issue. Mainly to deal with service. In some areas of Texas the GPS is updated faster than I can walk, and i'm some areas i'm driving too fast for it to keep up. Mainly the EDGE network and GPRS networks. So it's not really the iPhone.

My comments were in no way meant to be personal beyond the issue about identifying location (something which many 'new' posters seem to have chosen to ignore).

I guess that we've been used to 'acquisition times' for GPS, having fewer satellites overhead at any instant. I guess also that we've been aware that sometimes we're 'lucky' and acquisition happens instantly and sometimes we're unlucky and it can take many minutes so we have to be prepared to wait.

We have been lucky with GSM (and you've been unlucky with AT&T's slow uptake, wanting to be unique rather than be seen to be a 'follower'), but as I was involved with trying to get some of this stuff accepted a decade ago you cannot begin to understand the level of frustration that I feel about every negative comment that appears here about AT&T's short-comings in this area!

It gives me no pleasure, I can assure you.

All that I can say is that if you truly understand the limitations of the underlying technologies then you may not be so quick in condemnation of the iPhone and its capabilities - it actually does a pretty good job! <----UK-ish for 'thank your lucky stars that it works so well most of the time!' 😉

Oh, I'm only poking fun of AT&T. I'm happy with the service - although a little jealous that you have a couple more features. I've very appreciative of all the functions that we take for granted. This GPS thing is just a small glitch that I hope will be resolved soon (no matter what is causing it).

I just started my maps and clicked on it to locate me. took about 10 seconds and I'm inside my house. I am on 3.0, so this may be an issue on your iPhone. I would try the Restore as new and if that fails take it in for service.