iPhone 8 GPS problems

My case that I've been working on with a senior adviser and engineer is being pushed up the ladder. There are different tiers of engineers, and my case is progressing to the next level. What that means is unclear, but it seems they are treating this seriously enough. Unfortunately, as we all know, they don't seem certain what's causing it, and will still take time to figure out.

Good luck, but I can tell you from experience in dealing with the exact same progression up to the executive level, they intend to bury their heads in the sand.

Obviously I think we’d all love to hear if you end up hearing something new. I’m not holding my breath though.

Just chiming in to say that I have this issue as well on my iPhone X. 256GB, Intel modem. I’m glad I found this first and didn’t waste my time with getting it swapped at the bar or doing the whole set up as new thing (which I did when I first got the phone, so I’d be hesitant to do it again just shy of two months later).

I wonder if I call Apple Support if they’ll let me skip the set up as new process and just get straight to the gathering of diagnostics and logs for engineering, I’d be cool with that.

Anyone on the 11.2.5 beta and notice any difference?

Yeah, that’s what cemented the issue for me tonight. I’ve had the issue of maps losing my location every couple minutes while driving, but just tonight I was sitting on my couch and I watched as my location started at my spot then slowly drifted over to the next street. It was quite strange.

Personally since it seems pretty clear that swapping the phone won’t do anything, at least not consistently, I’m not gonna bother it would just be a waste of time restoring the backup and all that jazz. I’ll wait for a quality program or, more likely, a software fix.

The only real solution if you want to keep the X: iPhone X exchange and hope for another production week at another factory than the first one. Thankfully it worked for me. But you‘ll first know when you look up the series number when you get home.

I had mine swapped over today by the “Genius” Bar but the problem persists on the new handset and if anything, it’s a little worse. Apple support are still to call me back once engineering have further information but at this stage I’m so fed up I would consider dropping to an iPhone 7 if I knew that would work properly.

I have the iPhone 7 (as well as the Hyundai Sonata that seems to appear a lot in this thread) and that GPS works perfectly in the car cradle mount as well as everywhere else. Same with me wife's iphone 7 plus. I returned my X and got my $1400 back (including case and applecare) and I wouldn't even consider buying another X until I see some documented evidence that this problem has been resolved.

For now the 7 works just fine. The X was a novelty and I like new gadgets, but not enough to be an unpaid beta tester.

Yeah, the 6S is on 11.2.1, I updated to the beta 11.2.5 yesterday hoping it would resolve my issue. I've been running iOS 11 on the 6S since it was in beta, never had any issues with the GPS. (Battery and Bluetooth issues, but never GPS...)

Because I am on holidays and it’s not my local Apple Store. When I am back I will go down the replacement route. But from what I read from other users it’s a hit and miss situation at the moment as there are devices with the same problem on the market.

I had my X replaced and the replacement is the same. Still waiting for a reply from a senior adviser, they have been consulting with an engineer. Over £1000 for something that doesn’t work properly, i must be mad putting up with this.

Good to hear it worked for you. I've done 2 hard resets and they didn't solve the issue. There's no way I am going through this procedure once more, I will have my phone swapped. Even apple admitted on the phone that we did everything we could in terms of resetting /setup as new. :(

I understand that, but it's also a matter of Apple using the latest Bluetooth standard, which is designed to be backwards compatible.

However it may not be if the accessory vendor did not adhere to the applicable standards or made an error in doing so.

Took mine in for a genius bar appointment this afternoon, mostly for the fact that unless I put the phone to my mouth people can't hear me (if I move it slightly away they have no chance) but also mentioned the GPS issue. Guy says to me "there are no known issues" . Told him there are tons of pages on their very own forum about it but got no change out of him and wouldn't even swap my 8 over to see if that worked.

This will be the last iphone I buy now as I've always been happy to pay a premium price for a premium product but clearly both the Samsung S8 and the google pixel 2 are on a par if not better and for a smaller price. Won't be easy for me to do as I have a macbook and two ipads, my wife has an iphone and my kids have ipod touches. Looks like my love affair for Apple and their now clearly overpriced products is at an end I'm afraid.

You should certainly purchase whatever product meets your needs.

For me, the voice problem was easily resolved. All that I had to do is get into the habit of rotating the phone to get the mike really close to my mouth when I speak. That solved the issue 100%.

Same here...After replace my iphone-x, the gps issue persists. I don't have a Sonata like the others, but it's not working on my BMW. In fact I am actually inside s train to london and the GPS is totally looney.