iPhone 8 GPS problems

Ah, okay. The first post on this thread sounded just like my problem so I just replied to the last writer (you) on the thread.

My accuracy is 20-50 m which is not tolerable at all in my opinion.

I have checked the compass setting and they are fine.

I am starting to get really frustrated with this problem. :( Customer service said that the next step might be contacting Apple about the problem. I’m not very optimistic..

the.Jo0Lz wrote:

It seems they will not recognize the issues with the GPS for iPhone 8/8+ and iPhone X. And I don't understand why not more people are complaining and why no tech site has written anything about it. iOS 12 is around the corner, 11.2.5 was supposed to fix it, we're on 11.4.1 and they will just not help their users. I think nobody is using their GPS enough to notice the awful accuracy and constant drift.

I have had no issues to complain of with the GPS in my iPhone X; I use it daily for Waze and it gets me where I want to go and with Wi-Fi on it's as accurate as any other iOS device I've used.

As an aside, a little about accuracy:

US Government Info: GPS Accuracy

Correct; Apple does not publish specs regarding its GPS accuracy, and Location Services always operate in conjunction with other methods such as using the published locations of various WiFi hotspots.

Note that as Apple publishes no specs for GPS accuracy and the app is a third party product, what it has to say actually means little, especially as the 4.9m figure is for a "typical smartphone" and was based upon user-provided survey data, not actual data taken from phones.

Yes Akuphon, I remember your post, as well as those by others, and my own experience. That is why I wrote "people here are having problems with accuracy worse than that in open spaces, not in downtown NY etc"

jihui88

Have you read other people's posts here or on other GPS-related threads?

Why do you assume your situation applies to everybody else?

Some people have fixed their problem by repairing or replacing their phones, others have found different solutions.

Also, I had problems with an iPhone that had a Qualcomm GPS chip- the Qualcomm MDM9655 Snapdragon as used in the iPhone X A1865 model.

And, I am curious: can you provide the source of your information that the next generation of iPhones will all have Intel chip/GPS?

Hi jihui88,

Do you have any source for the claim that the problem is hardware (Intel chip) based? If Apple hasn’t acknowledged it, then who has confirmed it? I’m just curious.

If this really is a hardware issue, then I guess I’ll have to start thinking to change to Android phone.

I have had the GPS issue on my 6s ever since iOS11. The SIM trick seems to have worked for me now. I usually resorted to factory restore which would fix the issue temporarily, but would crop up again. Hopefully the SIM trick can be used in the future without having to resort to factory restore.

Do you know the percentage of iPhone X owners (or iPhone 8 owners) for whom GPS is an issue?

And can you tell me what percentage do you deem it so insignificant that the problem doesn’t merit attention by the maker?

I can’t give you either percentage but judging by activity on this forum and elsewhere, it seems to be an issue that the maker should fix or at least acknowledge.

Otherwise, how do you explain the 52 pages in this thread which started in Sep 2017 and has been viewed 40,491 times as of now, or the 51 pages on the iOS11 and GPS thread, which started in Oct 2017 and has been viewed 81264 times as of now, or other threads here which have also attracted plenty of posts and attention ?

Relative to other issues raised in this forum, this GPS issue has become prominent and persistent, which is reflected by the length and views of these threads, as well as by the number of blogs and articles attempting to find a solution.

I don't know the percentage, but current estimates is somewhere around 12.7 million iPhone Xs have been shipped worldwide since launch (plus around 8.5 million iPhone 8s and another 8 million iPhone 8 Pluses.)

If even one percent of those users experienced that issue, that would be 127,000, and if one percent of those complained of issues here, that would be somewhere around 1,270 posts here complaining of the issue, and we haven't seen that.

Views aren't a reflection of anything; I've viewed this thread hundreds of times to reply to questions here, yet I've had zero issues.

If you feel it's an issue, take your phone in to be analyzed; there must be some reason for the variance, even if a bug exists as most have had no issues whatsoever.

If there is an issue, only examining a misbehaving phone would allow Apple to track it down.

Genius Bar Reservation and Apple Support Options - Apple

I have the same problem on Waze and Google maps. On the iPhone 7+ and the 8+. Both programs run beautifully until I plug in CarPlay and the BLOOIE. Within seconds the get hopelessly lost.

Bluetooth and Wi-Fi enabled and iOS current.

I’m getting kind of desperate. If this can’t be resolved CarPlay will be useless.

I tried that it worked for about 30 seconds. I may try to sacrifice a chicken next. It’s about as useful as that idea!

This is a CarPlay bug. Someone at Apple has to look at it and not just point fingers.

Let me make two points and then I give up.

(1) I had the same problem on my iPhone 7, which was a big part of the reason I upgraded to the 8.

(2) I took the phone to a Genius Bar and they pronounced it perfect and sent me on my way.

Given that, what do you suggest?

William,

You say "Views aren't a reflection of anything" and "As stated before, this is far from a common issue, number of views of threads notwithstanding."

These GPS threads on this site have a total of about 150,000 views: 40,000 here, 80,000 plus on the iOS11/GPS thread, and a few thousand on other threads, which seems way higher than other threads I have seen, and all threads presumably have the same small proportion of "helpers" that are not personally affected.

Surely that means something?

How many views would meet your definition of a non-"far from common" issue?

That's amusing. The dealer said that the car's GPS would rarely be as accurate as the GPS in the phone. It would be nice if there were an option to disable this "feature" and allow the phone to use it's own GPS. The GPS in my phone, either Waze or Google Maps, is awesomely accurate, but when I try to use the car's build in nav system,Garmen, it spends more time looking for satellites than actually using them.