iPhone 7 gps and cell dropping

The way it was explained to me is the iphone has a separate gps antenna but it also uses cellular and wifi to determine location.

LawrenceCooper wrote:

Tonly a partial answer - GPS is not dependent on the towers and should not cut.out

That's not true - cell phones use A-GPS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_GPS

if this problem happen to iPhone 7 means trouble is with the iPhone 7 not with the network provider. I am in UK on 3 network and since day one i notice significan dropping in the signal, 4G only in an ideal conditions and once signal goes to 3G never returns to 4G , wifi was also weaken than the iPhone 5s 6 and 6s. However I never had total lost of GPS and only few times had No Signal. I found similar problems ppl had with previous iPhone releases ., 5s and 6s, but now these phones works a treat, maybe Apple knows about the issue and works on a solution but will take some time, or just there are faulty components inside the first produced iPhones 7's.

just an update i now have phone #5 and this one is a Verizon unlocked phone the apple store thought that changing the phone model all together would help. It didn't phone still freezing, call connections are not good at all. I am going to return the phone and probably go back to the 6S. So Sad....

Tried two things on my way to work today:

1. Turned off cellular roaming - GPS signal was still lost.

2. Turned off LTE - restricted to 3G speeds but GPS worked fine.

For my situation, I still feel this is more of a software/hardware issue with Apple since GPS works fine on my daughters iPhone 6s. I haven't noticed any issues with data or voice calls dropping only GPS losing connection.

It's ddefinitely iPhone 7 issues software or hardware or both but it's not the network provider. If all older iPhones and other make phones work properly with the network iPhone 7 should do straight out of the box.

OK. So I have a fix that worked for me. i got the beta from Apple of iOS 10.1. It cleared up all my Verizon gps and no service bugs. I used to lose service and gps woth Waze google and Apple maps. no problems since I got it. Just google Apple beta program and install it.

Finally good news here! That means that the new software update will fix the problems. Thanks for sharing!

I just tried the new iOS 10.1 beta 3 (developer version released today), my GPS is still not working.

I don't have any cell drop on my side, only the GPS that is not working.

- Carrier: ORANGE / Sosh (France).

- Device: iPhone 7 Black 128GB.

That sounds more like just a bad GPS and I would think there is a decent show it would be fixed with a new phone. If there really is a problem with the GPS, Apple should replace it under warranty.

The problem most of the people in this thread are talking about seems to be related to the hand-off between cell towers causes both the service and GPS to drop (while the GPS is technically separate from the cell capabilities) they interact when A-GPS is being used.

I went to an Apple Genius, and he proposed a replacement (warranty). But there is currently no stock for the model I have... so I have to wait. What a shame, for a 2 weeks phone I paid $900...

https://www.change.org/p/verizon-get-verizon-wireless-and-apple-to-fix-the-iphon e-7-dropping-service-issue?recruiter=608…

unofficially members using beta can not discuss. But 10.1 is showing signs of improvement. I haven't turned VoLTE off since beginning testing in first public beta

Unofficially of course regarding the beta. 🙂

Installed 10.1 beta 2 and GPS is working for me now with LTE setting left on.

Sprint, iPhone 7 32GB