ios 9.2 GPS Problems

Yep 9.3 didn't do the trick for me either, GPS is still buggy. The reboot trick is still working for me. I've noticed it only works when I'm outside or in my car. For instance if I reboot my phone and walk outside, it doesn't seem to grab a GPS signal and there's no hope. However, if I'm driving in my car and reboot, it'll pick up the GPS instantly. It seems there's two types of issues, a hardware issue and a software issue. My buddy's wife has a 6 and it doesn't matter if she reboots outside or anytime, it just doesn't grab GPS, I can only assume the GPS is fried although she hasn't taken it in for diagnostics either.

Regardless, Apple has botched this product line bad. The quality of this phone is not that great, for instance, the vibe stopped working on my phone Sunday morning, I'm missing calls and texts left and right. Really sad when you think about all the R&D and resources they have at their disposal. Not to mention I have my "send diagnostics information to Apple" turned on, what's the point of that if they're going to ignore the data? It has to be throwing error codes whenever this happens.

Yeah, I guess "lame" isn't very descriptive. I could understand degradation in the performance of the chip resulting in dropped/intermittent connections with devices are are relatively close to you in proximity and having an absolute horrible time locking onto a signal coming from orbit. Especially since you need to get 4 GPS signals to be accurate (3 being the minimum needed, but less accurate depending greatly on elevation).

Wife's phone is having the same problems. Went to apple store and genius bar was completely useless and fed me a BS line about well, it's not supposed to be able to track exactly where you are. Done all the resets, DFU restore, etc. and even replaced the wifi/gps antenna to no avail. FYI, the replacement antenna made the wifi signal worse, so I put the original one back in. It if the GPS needs at least 3 signals to lock, I'm guessing that's the problem. The phone will initially show a general decent location when opening any of the maps apps, but once you move, whether in a car or walking, the GPS can't relocate. Sometimes it places the phone 3 miles off for some reason. Got the phone in the fist batch of iphone 6 that went out and likely going to have to get a new one when the 7 comes out. My iphone 6 GPS works perfectly, in addition to being jailbroken. I wanted to jailbreak hers, but it's been updated to 9.2 and last night, updated to 9.3. When i put the phones side by side, and open google maps, hers shows the large circle and never gets smaller with the location. Mine starts out larger and within a few seconds, progressively gets smaller until it has the exact location with a zoomed in map. I'm going to jailbreak hers once the 9.3 jailbreak comes out to see if that will fix it. She's had uber problems because the driver is getting the wrong location from her phone. I've also reported this though the apple support page and to the apple store. Haven't heard anything from apple people yet.

well. I didn't tell that wifi and bluetooth doesn't work at all. I can still connect to wifi but the signal is much weaker now. My colleague has its iPhone 6s on the same table with the stronger signal (or he can connect to wifi on the spot where I'm not able to do that). The bluetooth connectivity has getting worse also (problems in car, my Stanmore speaker works just when there is a completely clear line etc.) I had absolutely no problem before iOS 9.2.1 update. And, of course, the warranty is gone after 15 months.

Same thing here. I give up - I'm ordering the new SE, I like the smaller phone anyway, fits in my hand better. Going to trade the 6 in for credit. Buying Apple care for sure this time, and never ever updating the OS.

I am sitting in front of my wireless router working from home and my WiFi is not connected. My GPS hasn't worked since February and my bluetooth sounds like a skipped record when I try to connect. This is ridiculous and Apple needs to do something. My contract will be up in September, which means it will be paid for then. So I will have to upgrade, but in the meantime, this is costing me data sitting in my own home!

having the same problem as all of you, I am just as agitated. Tried everything that's been listed. Apple said the phone showed no problems. This has been my first iPhone and very well be my last. I hoped 9.3 would have resolved the issue but it has not.

After following all directions, backup and restore etc. Apple set me up with an appointment to swap out my (still covered by warranty) IPhone 6 for a new one. So far I have not restored my backup and am slowly testing GPS apps and so far all work great.

If your covered by warranty or AppleCare I'd suggest swapping it out before support expires. Otherwise it seems all of those not covered by support on this thread have been forced to buy a new phone;-(

Been having the same issues as everyone else. Been into Apple, no hardware issues reported, have done every reset possible and followed all steps. Spent extra on data for months.

Got my iPhone 6 a few days after it was released. Must be an issue with this batch, would be interesting to hear from other users which model & when/where you purchased your iPhone from?

My GPS is failing, the device has Bluetooth connectivity issues & WIFI won't connect from home, unless the router is very close to the phone. However connects to other WIFI better (but still not as before ~iOS 8/9.)

Hoping this gets picked up as I'm also out of warranty and buying a new handset seems ridiculous.

Need my device for testing. Betas haven't helped.

Got my iPhone 6 day 1 of release at the AT&T store.

As noted from me several times throughout this thread, I have had GPS issues just like the rest of you.

Knock on wood/cross my fingers...I have not had any issues with GPS for about a week! I haven't done any resets or turned my phone off or anything in a long time...a long time meaning over a week or so.

Anyways...still hope Apple finds a solution because I'm sure the issue will creep back up sooner than later.

I also got my iPhone 6 on day 1 and since updating to 9.2 (now 9.3) I have had GPS, battery & WiFi issues.

I got my iphone 6 January 2015.

Bluetooth and wifi is ok. Gps stopped getting a location fix around January 2016. I get that blue circle and it doesn't track accurately while driving. Will show me several miles off and lags behind.

Thats exactly the problem on my wife's iPhone 6. We got ours first day they came out from att.

I got mine from AT&T the first day it was released also.

Bought my 6 on release day for T-Mobile. Started having gps issues back in January. Occasionally, I do notice some wifi drops but never really thought about it too much because I was mainly concerned about not finding my way to places. It sorta ***** knowing my phone is broken before I even paid it off. I like one more payment... Fantastic!