According to the linked gps.gov site, there are currently 17 operational L5 satellites. The new signals are of "limited use" until 18-24 are running. The site seems to have been last updated June 26.
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iPhone 14 Pro Models Feature Improved GPS Accuracy
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You’re very fortunate to have seen 85% of the world.
Running out a ram is one thing, but if the answer is BUT ANDROID HAZ 8 GIGs then I ignore.
Part of the reason why android has so much ram is because (fact) its OS and CPUS are less efficient than apples. Been proven time and again.
Umm, I guess your city travels have been limited. Most cities have areas with poor or no signage due to vandalism, simply non-labeling of minor intersections or whatever. For instance I often find Apple Maps quite useful when parking in some poorly signed residential area to walk-access a commercial area.
I am very happy about this. Mine‘s GPS is geriatric at best when wandering around Manhattan.
Congratulations! Wish granted. They do have 2GB more RAM.
Fun fact: if your car has a built-in GPS receiver, and you’re using CarPlay, iOS uses your car’s compass and GPS instead of its own.
Sorry you get poor coverage where you are. Approx of 70% of world is covered by water which I suppose is a reasonable excuse for poor surface mapping.
Very cool! I was wondering if this would come to the iPhone as well when they announced this for the Apple Watch Ultra.
Is this just a case of wanting to see a bigger number?
Yeah apple really sucked this year. I was planning to upgrade but I am not going to now.
Right there with you. A lot of great new features and improvements over the past few years!
But can the compass now work well enough to tell me which direction my car is facing before I have driven several hundred feet in a given direction? Every single phone I have ever had including this iPhone 13 Pro just seems to take a wild ass guess which way I’m facing, usually telling me the completely opposite direction.
Oh yeah that’s definitely a worthwhile upgrade. I went from 11 to 13 and it was a big difference.
Only downside is once you have ProMotion you notice its absence on other displays.
But you no longer have to (and are completely unable to) deal with a SIM card! Isn’t that fantastic news?!
It’s going to take me a while to get over the way they presented that one. I don’t “have to” deal with a SIM card on my 13 Pro, but I *can* and taking that away from me is *not* an upgrade.
They didn’t even make any excuses about bigger battery or more water resistance. The best they could come up with is implying that we’re all too stupid and clumsy to handle SIM cards so they’re going to take that problem out of our hands.
The iPhone 14 Pro is the most sophisticated and perfected iPhone ever made. Big innovative features? Not really. It is however very well build and perfected to the max! I’m very happy and grateful that I have the opportunity to buy and receive one in a couple of weeks. Quite an impressive piece of engineering feat!
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Sure…family members. Are you one of those people stalking someone that ruined AirTags for the rest of us?
Multi tasking. Minimizing forced app reloading. The experience on the 8GB iPad Pro is much better than on the 6 GB iPhone Pro Max.