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AustinBike Author

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iOS12 GPS Accuracy is off?

Updated to iOS12 in the states about a day before my trip began. Landed in Hong Kong and the GPS functionality in my iPhone 7 (and my wife's 7) has been horrific.

In Google Maps the screen spins wildly, almost like a compass has a magnet next to it. Apple Maps is vaguely better, but both have a hard time accurately locating us. We vary from 3-6 feet to sometimes up to a block away. Navigating in a foreign country is a real pain if you can't accurately work the GPS.

Does anyone have any tips?

iPhone 7, iOS 12

Posted on Sep 23, 2018 3:30 PM

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Oct 12, 2018 3:53 PM in response to AustinBike

I just found in a Twitter post the report issue function in the Apple Maps app, maybe if we all do this we may get some action from apple?

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Oct 7, 2018 9:25 PM in response to pandahill

Also, I have tried the following without success:

Restart phone
Reset privacy settings
Reset network settings
Opening multiple apps that use GPS at once

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Dec 5, 2018 5:43 AM in response to AustinBike

since the last update my iphone doesnt work well with GPS

1 No signal
2 Not updating your location
3 Slow in tracking your location
4 Showing the wrong location

when apple is going to fix ios 12 GPS

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AustinBike Author

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Oct 8, 2018 6:39 AM in response to pandahill

I did all of those and none helped.

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Oct 9, 2018 4:49 PM in response to AustinBike

Updating to iOS12.01 also does not fix this issue

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Oct 10, 2018 4:46 PM in response to AustinBike

Make sure that WiFi and Bluetooth are turned on.

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Dec 20, 2018 12:38 PM in response to Dogcow-Moof

losing gps signal or gps doesn't seem to keep up (losing after a few minutes)

navigation apps like waze or google maps can't locate me.

but everything is working good now like i wrote before

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Dec 23, 2018 5:38 AM in response to pandahill

Anything back from them? I play Pokemon go and this issue has been plaguing my XS from the start. An entirely new XS is doing the same thing.

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iOS12 GPS Accuracy is off?

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