Carplay
offer many great feature for iPhone users including navigation maps but some of
the car owner are reporting that CarPlay works except for navigation apps.
There is CarPlay GPS issue - iPhone, iPad, iPod on iOS 12. The CarPlay GPS location wrong and it does
not matter which apps you are using for maps i.e whether you use Waze, Google
maps or Apple maps, the location gets switched between the actual current
location and somewhere 20-30 meters from the car or in some cases it is several
miles away from actual location. It seems that the iPhone XR/XS/X or iPhone 8/7
plus GPS "pointer / compass" pointing at wrong location in maps.
Doing system resets, network resets, delete and reinstall apple maps is not helping
to fix the issue.
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| GPS car play maps issue |
GPS
apps on the iPhone works fine when not connected with CarPlay in this car. The maps show incorrect
GPS when connected to carplay only. GPS navigation system from the car works
fine when the phone is not connected or using Carplay. Some users say GPS
intermittently showing incorrect location when using CarPlay but for most of
the iPhone user the GPS issue in carplay in very frequent and the iPhone XR/X
users are seeing it much often while accessing the maps on Apple devices. The
issue is producible on multiple
infotainment systems of different manufacturers. And the issue is repeatable.
This also happens on an iPhone 7 Plus, 8 Plus and XS Max.
And the
Wrong GPS location on Carplay is not only for random or dynamic location but
also for saved location also like CarPlay Maps shows "Home" Location
Inaccurate. The GPS Carplay Issues is with iPhone after Latest iOS 12 Upgrade.
One
user stats as :
If I
disconnect the phone, the car and iPhone GPS give me correct location. If I
reconnect them, both give me the wrong location. When the car is not moving,
the wrong location remains at the same spot even after I disconnect/reconnect
the phone. So it's not giving a random location. It's off by 20-30 meters.
Maybe iPhone can't interpret the GPS coordinates correctly from the car GPS
antenna.
Why Carplay is showing working GPS location on iPhone XR/XS/X/8/7Plus on iOS 12:
It
seems like a bug in the latest iOS 12 which is causing GPS location issue in
Carplay. Technically, it sounds like the GPS in the head unit is malfunctioning.
Some reports state that GPS location issue in CarPlay is fetched with the help
of car and the cars which are not able to sync properly are facing these issue.
For now
Apple is working on the issue and hopefully they will roll out a permanent fix
for the issue in upcoming releases.
Comments
Prior to this change, as soon as my phone CarPlay connected to my Pioneer AVH-W4500NEX via wired or wireless, the map on the phone instantly shifted my location rendering any navigation app useless. I luckily found another thread which mentioned to change this carrier setting to 3G, and it worked after turning off/on Location Services. Then I tried LTE, VoLTE Off and that has seemed to work as well. So far so good.
Prior to this change, as soon as my phone CarPlay connected to my Pioneer AVH-W4500NEX via wired or wireless, the map on the phone instantly shifted my location rendering any navigation app useless. I luckily found another thread which mentioned to change this carrier setting to 3G, and it worked after turning off/on Location Services. Then I tried LTE, VoLTE Off and that has seemed to work as well. So far so good.
Prior to this change, as soon as my phone CarPlay connected to my Pioneer AVH-W4500NEX via wired or wireless, the map on the phone instantly shifted my location rendering any navigation app useless. I luckily found another thread which mentioned to change this carrier setting to 3G, and it worked after turning off/on Location Services. Then I tried LTE, VoLTE Off and that has seemed to work as well. So far so good.