iPadOS v18.0 Location services

[Nigel Crompton]

Just moved in to a new iPad.

P4N & Google Maps can't detect my location.
Location services is enabled
Both apps are set to 'while using'
Airplane mode is off

I've had 'background app refresh' both enabled & disabled for Google maps.

Several reboots.

Any clues, anyone, please ?

 

[HarryML7]

Have you got an internet connection?

 

[AndyPK]

Have you tried turning ‘Location services’ off, waiting a few seconds, and then on again…..?

 

[Nigel Crompton]

Have you got an internet connection?

Yes, but shouldn't matter

 

[Nigel Crompton]

Have you tried turning ‘Location services’ off, waiting a few seconds, and then on again…..?

Not more than about 73 times ..

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[Millcourt]

Presume your new iPAD is a GPS equipped version. If it is, it will be a Cellular Model with a slot for a SIM card. You do not need to install a SIM card for the GPS to work. However if yours is a cheaper iPAD without Cellular connectivity, it also does not have GPS.

 

[Nigel Crompton]

Doh! Emergency Amazon purchase during the long summer trip. Thought they all had GPS these days

Because settings/privacy & security/location services was there in it's entirety I assumed GPS was there too! Doh!

 

[Jane And Rog]

Presume your new iPAD is a GPS equipped version. If it is, it will be a Cellular Model with a slot for a SIM card. You do not need to install a SIM card for the GPS to work. However if yours is a cheaper iPAD without Cellular connectivity, it also does not have GPS.

That’s the correct answer. I upgraded mine recently sooner than I would have, to get to the GPS.

 

[Derbyshire wanderer]

I did the same but returned it the next day to Argos with many comments about Apple products not being returned if opened and had to use the not fit for purpose sale of goods discussion to get it exchanged.
It’s an expensive upgrade just for the GPS though

 

[Chris]

You need to turn the ipad off.

Walk around the block three times, say 4 Hail Mary’s and neck two pints quickly.

That will sort it.

If it doesn’t just repeat.

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[Just smiffy]

Hotspot it to your phone and all will be well…

 

[Nigel Crompton]

Je suis le Pollock

 

[Nigel Crompton]

Pollock? You know what I mean ...

 

[AndyPK]

Was your previous iPad cellular then Nigel Crompton …….?

‘The iPad's location-tracking sensors are fairly accurate at pinpointing your location. An iPad that can connect to a cellular network also includes an Assisted-GPS chip to help determine the location, but even without GPS, it works almost as well using Wi-Fi triangulation.’

 

[Jane And Rog]

WiFi positioning is OK when and where it works. I don’t know who Apple use to supply this tech but none of the systems have a complete map. Unlike GPS where accuracy generally degrades fairly gracefully, you can easily find yourself in a blank spot and WiFi positioning fails completely.

What tends to happen then is that the positioning falls back to a known IP map and your iPad looks like it’s in the data centre where your network connects to the internet. If you’re tethered to your phone that’ll be your network providers data centre.

Hotspot it to your phone and all will be well…

My experience with Apple is that although this could easily and should work, Apple don’t share location info between the phone and anything tethered to it :-(

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