iOS 10 GPS bug?

Hi everyone,


I have just updated an iPhone 6s, 6 and 2x 5s to iOS 10. All worked and works well, seeing that some are having trouble updating, I thought I might add that. The only problem I have is with GPS and it appears to be a pattern. Let me explain.

After the update, my location on Apple Maps is way off. There difference varies between a few meters and a few kilometers. This is noticed by other apps as well, google maps, Navigon and Here all show the same problem. Trails and Easytrails confirm these findings. Again this happens on all 4 phones!!


In the meantime, I have tried downgrading, restore, reinstall w/ and w/o DFU mode and the error does not go away.

I will report this issue to Apple asap, but would like to raise it here as well, to see if I am the only person with that problem.


Any feedback is much appreciated.


Regards,

tronicIO

iPhone 6s, iOS 10

Posted on Sep 13, 2016 11:25 AM

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Mar 16, 2017 7:06 PM in response to tronicIO

Is everyone still having this problem? I just got an iPad mini 2 with iOS 10 on it, and the GPS does exactly what everyone here is describing. I purchased this to use as a car audio head unit with navigation.


I even took my iPad into Apple today, and the tech seemed baffled by it. I showed him a video of my iPhone 6s side by side with my iPad, and my iPhone was working flawlessly in Google maps, and my iPad was all over the place. They ended up swapping it out with a new iPad mini 2, and it does the exact same thing.


This is clearly a software issue. Has anyone found any solutions? I would gladly try some other versions of iOS if that fixes it.

Apr 23, 2017 10:42 AM in response to joaocdestro

I don't think it's hardware I think software because all this started with an Uber update 4/5 months ago. I did a complete restore and then loaded my profile after and it was fine maybe a few months and back to same GPS issues and it started this weekend. I have a iPhone 6 with iOS 10.1. Going to restore it again once home hopefully it corrects it a while. I researched which iPhone model not affected but seems iPhone 6s and iPhone 7 affected also. I would upgrade Only IF it fixes issue but if it's software for sure then it won't matter if I get in debt for a new phone

May 20, 2017 10:06 AM in response to RashidButt

I've been having this issue for a while but getting worse it got to point I had no service at all yesterday after careful research fault keeps pointing at the wifi flex cable antenna network signal ribbon. During replacement it was found out mine was broken. I also changed but probably didn't need to the gps antenna flex cable bracket. I think maybe the times the phone slipped off my hand may have caused it. I tried it with UBER and wow it was back to normal. I say research if this is a possibility for you.

Sep 13, 2016 3:02 PM in response to tronicIO

Same problem here. It started about a month ago when I downloaded the beta version. At first it woudl still load the GPS coordinate accurately, but when i would "start route" then it just would stop, and it wouldn't follow me down the road. It wasn't solved in any of the betas for me. Now my GPS location is WAY off by about 1/4 of a mile when I pull up my "current location" and it just says "GPS not available" when i try to start any routes.

Oct 31, 2016 12:01 PM in response to tronicIO

Same problem for me. To add to this, sometimes the direction arrow in the GPS points in different directions and sometimes opposite too while i'm moving straight ahead. The arrow points north but the map route is sideways. It gets stuck at one location sometime. I'm attaching the screenshots if they need to see. This happens for all map applications. User uploaded fileUser uploaded fileUser uploaded file

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