iPhone 8 GPS problems

Send your iPhone to the warranty and don't wait! Mine started with your problems and after some months ended with no carrier service!!! Now I don't have warranty and it's dead forever 😢

I tried everything

My recollection is that many people with GPS problems did send in their phones, but that the problem persisted. As I wrote earlier, I just handed in my iPhone X for a refund. However, my new iPhone XS works extremely well. The GPS is excellent, both while walking and in the car.

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hi , i also have same problem , i'm using iphone x problem with waze , not accurate on gps, before this i using iphone 6s , gps/waze work properly no problem , i also have xs max problem with waze not accurate on gps , i think the problem is , when apple start using intel modem chipset on the latest iPhone , because when u on outside u using data , 4g data speed / ping is not strong then qualcomm chip have (iphone 7 and below) thats why gps cant accurate detect location when your data 4g have lost speed data ..i hope apple can fix this problem with ios update ,

On the iPhone X, my issue was (TTFF) time to first fix i.e. getting the initial GPS-based location. Once I got that, the locations were always accurate, if I started my journey without waiting for that, I had problems.

TTFF seems much better now probably because I did the following:

SIM trick (see previous postings and warnings about removing/reinserting SIM cards while phone on)

Set Compass to True North

upgraded to iOS 12.0.1

turned off all GPS apps apart from the one I am using

turned off all other unnecessary background apps

stood motionless in clear view of sky until I got GPS-based (not Wifi/Cellular-only) location. to be absolutely sure of this, I use Motion X and look for the blue/green globe to spin, and sometimes also use GPS Diagnostic.

All of these may have helped, particularly the first, third, and last steps.

Even after all that, TTFF is still slower than on my wife's iPhone 6S which uses the same carrier and same iOS.

Anyway, apart from looking like an idiot standing on the spot outside for 10 to 30 seconds to get the first fix, I have no problems at the moment.

I’m not sure if anyone has already tried or if this is the correct forum to post this (as I’ve read too many forums for this gps issue and I’ve lost track). But I thought I would let folks know a solution I found for my gps issue.

As some have mentioned, my gps doesn’t update frequently enough to be accurate on Google Maps, Waze and Apple Maps when my phone is on the center of the dash. So I put a 1.5”x1” aluminum foil on the top left corner (screen facing you and length of foil horizontal) where the gps chip supposedly is. Voila. It’s been working for 3 whole days now! MacGyver saved me from months of frustration.

Excuse my rant: they don’t make iPhones like they used to.

Still hates my magnetic mount, guess i need to stick to the bulkier cradle mount

I have the Iphone X on IOS 11.1.1, and this sounds like the exact same problem I have. Waze and Apple Maps are useless. It constantly drops the GPS signal. Or keeps me frozen in one location.

The next time Apple says to anyone of you "strange, first time I've heard of this GPS problem" show them these:

AppleQer wrote:

GPS Diagnostic app should give its optimal reading of plus/minus 10 meters (its scale doesn't go below that).

It does go below that...

Mine was from GPS Diagnostic - Satellite Test Tool & Coordinates on the App Store - haven't tried Motion X

HereIsTom wrote:

Outside WiFi and Bluetooth does nothing for GPS!

Wrong, wrong, wrong!

Go here for an understanding.

Everybody should write to Apple via this link under feedback type ´bug report´. If we are enough complaining about this, they might just fix it faster.....

Feedback - iPhone - Apple

Apple does not normally respond on this forum, which is for support from fellow users.

if you want to comment to Apple, do it here:

Product Feedback - Apple

This guy reports having 11000 iphones in the same company having the same problem:

Re: GPS not working after update to IOS11

IzzyKat had his phone replaced by a new one and it did not solve the problem:

Re: Why is my GPS not working on iPhone X?