do iphones use Galileo gps yet?

Michael,

Not sure. To my knowledge iPhones are "hardware technically ready" for Galileo system, but now it's a matter of permissions / agreements / certifications and... software.

Didn't find any official announcement from Apple.

Regards

Giulio

The already support it, and have since the iPhone 8. See for example the tech specs for the iPhone XS - https://www.apple.com/iphone-xs/specs/

“Location

• Assisted GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, and QZSS
• Digital compass
• Wi‑Fi
• Cellular
• iBeacon microlocation“

And this - https://www.gsa.europa.eu/newsroom/news/latest-iphone-8-iphone-8-plus-and-iphone-x-are-galileo-enabled

Deadrivermike,

I wish I could have helped you, but I know I didn't. And that's because I don't have any real official statement from Apple saying that that system is working on iPhones.

As you already noticed, we are just users like yourself and are not aware of Apple's future plans.

I'm Italian, I live in Italy and I really don't know (because I don't have any evidence about that) if Galileo system is running on my iPhone yet. I'm pretty sure that Apple will let us know (using a complete, technical announcement about this matter) when GPS is activated using that satellite system.

I even didn't know that US goverment approved the use of that system last November. Are you sure about that?

Coming back to your last question, I can't imagine the reasons of this delay. (bureaucracy???)

As soon as I have certainties, I'll keep you informed.

My best regards.

Giulio

The US government had no basis to disallow it really. They already allow use of the Russian system, and the current US system not only abandoned the ability for selective availability (the degradation of signal and accuracy they had built into the original system so only the military had the high accuracy signal) but the current and future US GPS satellites are incapable of SA anyway (it used a random or pseudorandom degradation of the satellite timing signal to introduce location errors of approx. 100m or so). So in the end all they do by allowing Galileo is literally nothing more than adding redundancy to a system that everyone seems to agree should be highly redundant anyway given modern navigation and communications reliance on it.

Not sure. None of us can say since we don't work for, nor can we speak for Apple.

How could we know what Apple hasn't or perhaps won't reveal?

Thanks for your input, but I was not asking for a official statement from apple. I was asking if anyone had any information on whether iPhones would be able to use Galileo satellites any time soon.

There are rumours about GNSS on iPhones, but we don't have any official announcement yet.

Regards

Giulio

Thanks for sharing that doc.

Giulio