can my iphone still be tracked on airplane mode

beatsareme wrote:

Try this: Use Apple Maps to get directions somewhere and press start. Then, turn on airplane mode, and guess what? It still tracks your exact GPS location and continues to give you perfect directions. How is that possible, when airplane mode is supposed to turn off all internet connectivity?! Apparently Android users aren't the only ones getting tracked even when airplane mode is on..

Airplane mode hasn't turned of GPS on the iPhone in couple of years. However, that doesn't have anything to do with the question that was posed in this thread. In order to track a phone using Find My iPhone (or other services), the phone has to connect to either a WiFi or cellular data network in addition to having location services turned on. If the phone can't connect to a network, it can't be tracked.

GPS satellites are not tracking you. You're tracking the satellites. Then, the phone calculates where you are based on the position of those satellites relative to you. GPS has nothing to do with the internet.