My Iphone11 Pro got problems with Location Service after updating to the latest IOS 16.6. Even if I try to reset Location Service, restart apps or restart the device. Seems that all my apps that using Location Service fail to get location and get stuck. For example, Weather App, Yr App (another weather app) , and Google Map. Please consider fix this error ASAP.
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iPhone 11 Pro, iOS 16
My Trial-and-error works but just you will miss an important feature, Find my phone. I turned off the feature Find My iPhone. Now all my location service is back to normal.
First, in settings, search the Location Services, then in Share My Location, turn off Find My iPhone.
Second, you need to reset the settings->general-Transfer or reset iPhone->reset->Reset Network Settings.
After it is back. then re-attach to WiFi and other stuffs, allow apps to use location services, etc. as normal.
It works for me for a day now. I think it is fine, but Find My iPhone is important. Waiting for the real fix.
My Trial-and-error works but just you will miss an important feature, Find my phone. I turned off the feature Find My iPhone. Now all my location service is back to normal.
First, in settings, search the Location Services, then in Share My Location, turn off Find My iPhone.
Second, you need to reset the settings->general-Transfer or reset iPhone->reset->Reset Network Settings.
After it is back. then re-attach to WiFi and other stuffs, allow apps to use location services, etc. as normal.
It works for me for a day now. I think it is fine, but Find My iPhone is important. Waiting for the real fix.
K.Suwat,
Try below. AT least works for me.
Please try yourself with force restart the iPhone.
Press and quickly release the volume up button.
Press and quickly release the volume down button.
Press and hold the side button until you see the Apple logo.
Please make sure to press the volume up quickly then release it. then do the same with volume down button. Then long press the power button for at least 30 seconds.
How is everyone getting on? Have you managed to fix it?
I contacted Apple support in the end. They told me to factory reset my phone. I did that on Wednesday (5 days ago) and not had any problems since. Previously I had to reset network and location settings every day.
Factory reset might be the best way to resolve this for you all.
Also, turns out my battery health is down to 80% and Apple said that is when it can start to fail and location services can be affected by the degrading battery.
Guys, I contacted Apple support. At least mine was solved with below steps.
Please try yourself with force restart the iPhone.
Please make sure to press the volume up quickly then release it. then do the same with volume down button. Then long press the power button for at least 30 seconds.
Hi Guys,
After upgrade to IOS16.6 situation, the location service was gone as you know. Before I did the following, I need to reset my network setting every time I need to use GPS and location services.
I finally sacrificed myself by doing factory reset.
This seems to work fine now for 4 days already.
Firstly I did a full backup 140GB to my PC since I don't have enough iCloud storage.
Secondly I restore my backup from PC to iPhone.
Of course there are some drawbacks.
For my case, all my Apple Wallet credential is gone because it was factory reset. All my Bank apps need to re-login and activate face id again.
I see some differences in User Interface in IOS 16.6 that I didn't see after I do an upgrade from 15.6.1. This seems to have some more features which are not seen in case of upgrade. It shows all possible features.
Battery life seems to decrease more than before 10-20%.
So think about it and decide if you wanted to do factory reset or not. Good Luck.
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.
2 weeks since the factory reset and everything is working fine. It even seems to have resolved a problem with car play where Google maps would sometimes just freeze. Currently on holiday and have been using the phone to navigate car journeys and mountain hikes with no problem at all. Just make sure you’ve backed up all your WhatsApp/Signal messages or any similar apps you use, and back up your phone to iCloud before you do any reset. Then you can restore your phone from backup and should keep everything.
This happened to me too. My parents couldn't see my location after updating to one of the newer IOS updates. I took it into my local Verizon store and they got it back working in less than 3 minutes.
The associate said to do the following:
Settings > Click your name at the top > Find My > Toggle the "Share My Location" off and on to reset it. You may have to turn your phone off and back on to complete the process. I did this with my Mom's phone and it worked as well.
Try this: turn off Stolen Device Protection then switch off and on Find my Services. (Can then go back and turn on Stolen Device Protection if you want). No idea why it worked for me, but after 2 unsuccessful trips to Apple and 1 to AT&T troubleshooting, I found this worked. I was going to trade in my otherwise good phone, but once I turned off Stolen Device Protection to determine trade in value, location services started working!
I fixed this because for some unknown reason it was using my son's school Google account which must have restrictions on Google Maps. After switching to my personal one it is working fine now.
Everything is working for our 3 phones that had the 16.6 location issue after we updated to iOS 17 on Sept. 18. We have to re-log in to many apps and go adjust some settings back to where we had them, but other than that we are back on track.
Hi,
the Update 16.6.1 solved the problem for me.
Ok. I downloaded 17.0.
30 mintues in and everything is still working.
I will continue to report back as we get into the evening/morning.
hope this ends almost 2 months of frustration and wasted time.
If you're facing issues with GPS on your iPhone for quite sometime, here are possible solutions that can help:
Read all the posts and tried everything -
off & on location
find my phone off them on in settings
restart
deleted map app and re added
THEN noticed there was a find my app, I clicked on that, the app opened and it showed all the people share location with and it said where they all were
got out of app and everything worked!!!!
hope this post might help someone else
Location Services not working on iPhone
