Multi tasking. Minimizing forced app reloading. The experience on the 8GB iPad Pro is much better than on the 6 GB iPhone Pro Max.
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iPhone 14 Pro Models Feature Improved GPS Accuracy
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It's undoubtedly part of the Core Location (or whatever) APIs on the devices, so anything using GPS location services should use it automatically.
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Correct. We specifically engineered this amazing new GPS technology to work with any GPS-enabled application on iPhone.
How in the hell do you expect an iPhone to know which way your car is facing? My iP13 Pro does a fine job of telling me which way the phone is facing. Try pointing the phone in the same direction as the car is pointing.
Both are wrong. The earth is a hemisphere. Half flat and half sphere. Personally, I prefer the sphere side. Everyone on the flat side is too two dimensional.
I think it military speak for “we’ve had it for a decade.”
Uh I’m not trying to trick it by turning the phone the opposite way to the car or something. It’s on a dash mount in the same orientation I would be holding it in my hand. I would think the compass could compare its orientation to the direction I’m supposed to drive and figure it out, rather than watching me drive the wrong way via GPS and then correcting.
Any app on the iPhone will take advantage of whatever location hardware the device has. And Google Maps is available for the iPhone.
With current iPhones, getting accurate GPS readings between tall buildings has always been a challenge. GPS is generally a weaker signal. Whether you had the budget or flagship phone would not have made a difference for GPS... until iPhone 14. Hence, you would always get better location results in a "middle of nowhere podunk" town.
Apple's location service does provide horizontal and vertical accuracy values for each location result that is returned. It would be up to the developer to display it in the app or not. Location accuracy is only guaranteed to be accurate within 10 meters. In the right conditions, the accuracy is usually better than 10 meters.
macRumors trying very hard to churn out a huge amount of filler content to make this iPhone release seem exciting, with just enough hint of skepticism to sound authentic.
Mine works. Maybe your dash mount is anomalous. Try it in your hand pointing the camera end toward the front of the car.
Most Android flag ship phones since a couple of years have this feature, I think. So, Google Maps must be able to take advantage.
List of phones supporting dual frequency GPS
Great to know! Improved accuracy is great.
"However, while L5 has been rolling out since 2010, the government says the signal remains "pre-operational."
Not important at all when you do 5 minutes of basic research. It’s fine, too bad Android users are stuck in navigation hell
Google Maps used to be good. Just seems like utter garbage now. It almost always sends me on crazy routes. I eventually gave up and went back to Apple Maps. I’ll never go back to Google Maps
Apple is all about privacy. So private nobody can go there.
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I bet your 6GB iPhone pro max is much better than my 4 GB iPhone Pro. Bothers me that usually if a pause a YT video to take a picture, the YT app refreshes.