Problem with locations in iOS 16.6

After three weeks of dealing with apple support on the phone, they finally set me up with a Genius Bar appt last night. The Genius bar manager confirmed that everything I already new and then the support guy told me to do exactly what is described above. He said they would not issue a new phone even under apple care if I did not do this as the issue is "a software problem." I informed him that it did not seem like the burden should be on the user to fix the software issue that was caused by 16.6 as recreating my 7th iPhone would take days and you lose all of your text history. I asked if the next software release could fix this and he said it probably would. So, I went home and downloaded the ios17 beta which, as of this morning, has resolved the issue.

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I've discovered the issue is opening "Find My". Location services will work once you do the hard reset until you open the Find My app. It's like that app contaminates everything that uses location services.

Basically, if I force reset my phone and then don’t open Find My Friends then my location services works on all my other apps. As soon as I open Find My Friends it destroys location services for everything.

For those that don’t know how to force reset your handset, press volume down once, then immediately press volume up button once, and then hold in the side power button until screen goes off and then let go when you see white Apple logo.

Ben.

Can confirm as I had this issue as well with iOS 16.6.1 but after upgrading to iOS 17 the problem has been rectified, it seems like there’s an issue with the software which is reassuring since I thought I had a hardware problem.

I also figured out Find My was causing this issue. I am able to get back by rebooting or using buttons to reset my iphone 12 pro. But then cannot open Find My or else issue returns. Ipad that I have does not have this issue, only iphone after latest update IOS 16.6.

Not sure if this is related to Carplay issues too. I also am having trouble connecting to Carplay. Have not tried yet since not using Find My. Hopefully new update will come soon.

Basically if I do a hard reset my location services work completely fine until I open find my. So I just don’t use find my, or if I do I just do a hard reset straight after. I’ve had location working for several days now without using find my.

Try not opening Find MY app after you reboot or hard reset iPhone. See if that helps. My Carplay now works as long as I do not open Find MY on my iPhone 12. We need an update to come out to fix this.

Installed 16.6.1

Rebooted iPhone

So far, everything seems to work

(for 6 hours now.... Carplay, Maps, Etc...)

Yes, IOS 17 has been working fine on my iphone 12 pro max. Resolved my location issues and also Carplay.

Same case here. The 17 fixes the issues with gps on iPhone 12 Pro Max.

Today had 2 calls with the senior team support. First call told me to remove the VPN app, reboot the phone. the Apple Maps works after that, but after 30 mins, the map location freeze. The second call advise me to "Reset Network Settings", reboot the phone. The maps work with location after fresh restart, but after 30 mins, location service gone again. at this time, I still have issue with the GPS location service on camera photo, all the map apps like apple map, google map, waze.... none of the methods works so far......... someone from Apple please raise this concern and have this resolved quick.

I did not turn off Find My, I just do not open it. Have not had issue since doing that. May be lucky, who knows. Hopefully update will fix this.