Apple CarPlay GPS wrong location issue

Do you find any solution on the GPS wrong location issue, I’m facing the same issue too

I’ve got the same issue on a new Pioneer DMH-WT7600NEX. Phone was on ios16.5 and Pioneer firmware was 3.0. Updated to iOS 16.6 and firmware 3.4. Have tried forgetting the devices, wireled, and wireless. Every time the phone is connected to the headunit it says I’m in a different location than I really am. Sometimes a road over or 10+ miles away.

Tried looking for this, just to be able to use the CarPlay GPS, but unfortunately I wasn’t able to figure out how to reset it. Could you help us out with this, please?

Also, has Apple or Toyota helped with this problem so far? Have they even acknowledged that it IS a thing? It’s frustrating to buy a new vehicle and have this specific thing be an issue when the sole purpose of CarPlay is to mitigate the use of a phone while driving. 🥲

Same here, and even weirder!

I've got a new used car, Peugeot Rifter 2021, with wired carplay.

Using an iPhone 13 Pro Max.

At the beginning I noticed some rare difficulties to connect (had to unplug/plug a few times so that carplay pops-up in the car.

Then, after a few days, while I was driving, boom, same problem than this topic (position offset by a few meters).

Happens on Google Maps and Waze. When I disconnected the phone, position came back OK on the phone, when I reconnected to the car, after a few seconds, position came back offset.

Weirder part : the next day, the car doesn't recognize at all my phone. On the phone, carplay settings, I delete the car profile, plug it, and see like during 500ms the popup asking to accept carplay in locked mode. No time to accept it, the popup disappears, and the car is not registered.

After a few tries I got this message on the phone "water detected in lightning port, charge will not be active".

Never got it wet..

So I quit trying to make it work, make my drive with the phone not connected..

The next day, each time I try a connection it's the same story (the connection happening during 500ms... not the water detected part). Once on like 50 tries, connection establishes OK, I see carplay on my car, and a few seconds after it disappears for ever.

I've tried to connect the phone to a charger, a computer, everything works perfect.

I cleaned the lightning port which had A LOT of dust in it, but it's the same.

Yes. We had the exact same problem. I don’t understand why car manufacturers are installing apple car play. It’s useless for navigation. Everybody having this problem should complain. I filed a complaint with Ford.

I have been having this issue as well with a 2017 Range Rover, I had an iPhone 12 and it was driving me crazy.

Especially since my wife's phone works fine when plugged in.....

So I can sort of rule out the car being an issue.

I recently got a new iPhone 15 and was so excited to not have this issue! But it is still happening!

Not sure I have s setting that is messing my phone up particularly. I reset my location and privacy, hopefully that helps will see when I take car out again tmr. I asked apple and they said to restore....

Also just plugged into a friend car earlier and it worked fine. No real rhyme and reason to my problem!

Same issue, plug the phone directly into the car with USB cable. Solve the problem. I think that the car turns off the Wi-Fi on the phone when it’s connected to CarPlay but normally the phone uses Wi-Fi to triangulate so this causes the discrepancy. But if you plug the phone in the phone, then uses the cars and antenna or whatever to get your location and it seems to fix the problem.

I've had no experience of your exact problem myself, but again it would be a problem with the car GPS position being relayed to CarPlay. So it would still likely be fixable by a vehicle software update.

I have had the exact same problem. It seems to work fine locally, but we were on a 5-1/2 hr road trip and the GPS just went off and on. It’s pretty scary when you are on a major highway with cars going 80 MPH and you’re missing exits because the GPS is not working. Apple needs to do something about it. I brought my car back to my dealership and they ran diagnostics on it, but said it was fine and that it’s an “Apple Car Play” problem.

Yes, GPS loss on busy roads is a bad situation to be in. But it's the car's job to give CarPlay the GPS data. A dealer running diagnostics isn't going to find issues in their own software. And yeah, of course they are going to say it's an Apple problem. Did they update your car system & mapping software to the latest versions?

Yeah, I guess you might be completely up to date then. In which case you might have this problem until their next software update ☹️. With wired systems you can usually work around the issue by disconnecting your phone from the car when the nav screws up (and continuing on your phone which should now show the correct position). But I don't know how difficult it is to disconnect on the move with wireless systems.

Yes it absolutely needs to be fixed. I checked to see if Android Auto users were having the same issue, which of course they were. However at the end of this thread I was interested to see an Android Auto team member say:

A software update has been released to fix this issue with GPS. Please reach out to the car dealership for the updates.

So it looks like Android were able to work with the car manufacturer and get a fix out. One can only assume Apple is doing the same. Although it is worth noting that this Android fix still took well over a year to arrive.

Do your phone maps show the correct position when not connected via CarPlay? If so, you need a car software update. Just remember that after your dealer has updated system & maps software, it might still show the wrong position. You will need to drive your car for a couple of miles for it to pick up the satellites again, after which the position should fix itself.

That's bad. If your car is still under warranty then they should offer to replace the hardware, as software updates don't seem to be fixing the issue. That's what my dealer did when they thought the software updates hadn't worked. However for me the software updates actually had worked, but the car just needed to be driven a bit. So I ended up getting them to cancel the order for the new hardware unit.

I found a solution that fixed the issue with my CarPlay. It appears that the map app had never properly updated previously and was using an old format and graphics display.

1) Delete your phone profile from your vehicle then do a forced reboot of your vehicle's system. You'll need to find the instructions for your specific vehicle make;

2) Delete the maps app from your phone;

3) Delete the CarPlay profile from your phone for the vehicle (settings, general, CarPlay). From the list under "My Cars" tap your vehicle profile/name and select "Forget This Car";

4) Do a forced reboot of your phone (in quick succession tap volume up, volume down, then press and hold the power button for approximately 15-30 seconds until the phone restarts;

5) Reinstall the maps app;

6) Pair your phone with your vehicle.

These steps have resolved the issue with my vehicle's CarPlay. In addition the map display is now showing an updated graphics display.