iPhone 7 GPS constantly changing in Maps

I have this same GPS accuracy problem with my iPhone 7 Plus (model A1784) which has an Intel GPS chip.

What is the (AXXXX) model number on the back of your new replacement iPhone 7 that has perfectly working GPS?

I am aware that some iPhones have Intel LTE chipsets. However I believe the Intel iPhones use a Broadcom GPS unit. Of course LTE as well as GPS can affect location services.

In any event my working phone is an A1784. So was the non-working one.

Thanks for sharing your model numbers John. (And thanks for correcting me on the Intel / Broadcom chip combination).

So far I thought I heard only replacement units with model number A1661 had an actually working GPS unit.

(More people have similar problems as discussed here: http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/gps-problems-iphone-7-or-ios10.1998933/)

It's good to know your new A1784 does indeed work correctly after swapping it from an A1784.

Solution for others in that case might be trial-and-error swapping until you hopefully hit an iPhone with a properly functioning GPS chip...

Have you found a solution? I have the same issue with my iPhone 7. It's running the latest iOS. I have a feeling it's a hardware issue. I got my phone through sprint so I wonder how many of us did as well and if it might be an issue with the batch sent to them.

Agree with you🙂

If it's a hardware problem indeed, I'm trying to make sense of whether this is tied to the actual model number and gps chip used.

Jmcoy, since you got your iPhone 7 from Sprint, does that mean your model number (on the back of your phone) is A1660?

A1661 same problem😢

I'm from Germany (T-Mobile) too and have a similar problem using the runtastic app.

Tracks i ran for several years with iphone 5 and 6 seem to be "longer" now, on my new iphone7 256gb. The auto-pause feature is not stable on this phone anymore.

Good point about the auto pause feature. I've seen the same with both iSmoothRun and Strava. And when I walk with Apple Maps running I can see why: instead of moving smoothly with me, my position will move in an irregular fashion, often stopping for a couple of seconds and then "jumping" forward.

Another thing that came to my mind is the fact, that health does not count the number of climbed stairs correct anymore.

Does this "climbed stairs issue" is another error caused by the mentioned "gps issue", or does it belong to a new - let's say - "barometer issue"?

Any comments?

Hi

Same problem here in France with my iPhone 7 Plus 128go ...

Apple changed my phone for a new one but the gps issue is still here !

Customer service tell me to wait for the next ios update ! ...

I've wondered if it it might be an accelerometer issue rather than a gps issue.

Btw there's one guy over at the MacRumors forum discussion on this topic who says that he got a replacement phone that works as good as 6 or SE. And he's using Runtastic just like you:

http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/gps-problems-iphone-7-or-ios10.1998933/page- 8#post-24030956

So now I wonder if the error is not universal after all, so maybe I should ask for yet another (a third) replacement phone. My iPhone 7 is a brick to me anyway, so if they accept a return again, it won't matter if I have to wait a few days for a replacement.

This is a pretty long thread, but there are plenty of people, myself included, who had their defective phones replaced with new phones that work perfectly.

If your phone is replaced with a new phone but still exhibits the same problem, just keep sending it back. I've found it's easiest if you make a video of your GPS bouncing around by miles or something.

The thing is, my phone doesn't bounce around by miles, the GPS isn't that bad. It's just that it's not precise enough for tracking sports, it gives me (with every app I've tried) runs that are overestimated by at least 10%, sometimes up to 50%, with wiggly tracks that veer off the street I walk on, while my iPhone 6 mostly locates me even on the right side of even a narrow street.

Since you're satisfied with your replacement phone, do you use it for running or just ordinary GPS use with e.g. Apple's Maps app?

Here's the difference as illustrated by a walk I recorded simultanously on my iPhone 6 and iPhone 7 (I don't think I have to tell you which is which :-)):

I persevered for 6 exchanges. 7 phones in total, yes seven - which was getting a bit ridiculous and taking too much of my time too. Every unit demonstrated the same random errors, ie. unusable position services data (jumping around in Maps/Gogle Maps and jagged zig-zag positioning in sports apps, eg. Strava, Endomondo, etc, etc).

Cycle rides 10-15% longer for the obvious reason:

Everyone has their limit with patience and frustration, and I'd exceeded mine - plus, despite technical demonstrations of the faults, the manager at my local Apple Store was starting to get a bit of an attitude frankly... so I walked away with my refund and am back to using my old faithful iPhone 4 for now until such time there appears a confirmed fix.