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Warning: iOS 16.1 Beta Breaking GPS on iPhone 14 Pro Models

Everything is breaking. iOS 16 and iPhone 14 Pro has been nothing but problems.

Buggy, camera shaking, etc…

This is absolutely the most embarrassing release for Apple.

Luckily I didn’t trade in my 13 yet as I had to go back to it. Apple Store said they are investigating it and refunded my purchase.
 
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SnappleRumors said:
Forbes called 16 a dumpster fire. I probably wouldn’t go that far but it‘s a reasonable point of view.



Yep. An old partner used to say, “I don’t dignify the preposterous.”
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Ah… a newbie. That reviewer at Forbes has had a stick up his butt against Apple for years. Nobody here takes them seriously
 
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BipedalOS said:
Everything is breaking. iOS 16 and iPhone 14 Pro has been nothing but problems.

Buggy, camera shaking, etc…

This is absolutely the most embarrassing release for Apple.
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Is that based on what you read, or what you actually experienced?

 
MrRom92 said:
After having the most unstable iOS experience of my life with the ENTIRE 16 beta cycle on my 11 Pro Max, even as far as still having several severe system crashes on the RC/final build, I think I am staying away from all iOS betas for the foreseeable future!!

I’m on my 14 Pro Max now (updated and then fully restored in iTunes to 16.0.1 before setting up and restoring my backup) and though it’s only been a day, things seem to be pretty good for the time being.
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Really? Sorry to hear that your experience with iOS 16 was so bad.

My experience was just the opposite (to my surprise of course) as iOS ran fine on my backup phones which are the 11 Pro Max, 12 Pro Max, and since it was so stable I ended up putting it on my 13 Pro Max, which was obviously my daily driver until I got my 14 Pro Max this past Friday.

Now iOS 16.0.1 is running great on my iPhone 14 Pro Max, which is an amazing iPhone.

Good luck with your experience on your iPhone 14 Pro Max.

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People's experiences will always differ. You can be the unlucky one who's hit hard by a severe bug. (It looks like the beta GPS bug doesn't actually affect everyone with the iPhone 14 Pro, which may help explain why Apple didn't catch it in time.)

As I recall, as far as shipping releases go, bugs in 11 and 13 seemed to hit particularly many people, whereas 10, 12, 14, and beyond didn't. I heard relatively little about issues with 15, and the fast adoption of 16 suggests it, too, is doing OK in terms of quality.

I certainly don't get the impression that "This is absolutely the most embarrassing release for Apple."
 
has anyone said this was probably caused by someone working from home while playing with their dog/cat/kid/hamster and got sidetracked?

my 14promax can't use gps apps, but i dont have the physical camera shake using snapchat...
 
I'm in the camp of not being affected by any major bugs on 16.1 on my 14 Pro Max...phew.

The last "major" bug I remember affecting everyone was the Apple Music bug on CarPlay from 18 months ago...was corrected the next day.
 
MacCheetah3 said:
P.S. I miss the days of optical media, when companies were forced to have full, high quality products on release.
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I don’t miss having to drive to the AASP to get System 7.5.3 Update 2.0 (now with different bugs!), then drive there again for 7.5.5 (no 7.5.4 for customers because that one was too buggy, oops!).

Like, yeah, easily installable patches have led to a “we’ll fix it later” attitude in some places, but it doesn’t follow that when updating was hard, releases were “full, high quality”. They weren’t.
 
Apple has acknowledged the camera shake and cut and paste issues, they have yet to acknowledge the GPS issue, I guess because it only affects the 16.1 Beta. Hopefully fixed with Beta 2 probably next week.
 
Unregistered 4U said:
As someone who has beta tested for multiple companies and multiple software packages, obvious bugs abound in any company’s software. And, with many software companies following the agile methodology, there are obvious bugs that will make it into the release candidate as well. There’s no software written today with no bugs.

If someone tells you there’s no bugs, it’s because they’re not testing their code :)
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Its just crazy how people cannot tell the difference between no bugs and obvious bugs.
 
nt5672 said:
Its just crazy how people cannot tell the difference between no bugs and obvious bugs.
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There’s no software that has “no obvious bugs”. None. For any piece of software out today, just google something like “-software- obvious bugs” and you’ll see how true that is.
 
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GPS is pooched on my 14 Pro with 16.1 beta. None of my map apps work now. It’s far worse on wireless CarPlay vs wired too which is odd. Location doesn’t work at all on wireless CarPlay. Hopefully beta 2 fixes itt.
 
chucker23n1 said:
People's experiences will always differ. You can be the unlucky one who's hit hard by a severe bug. (It looks like the beta GPS bug doesn't actually affect everyone with the iPhone 14 Pro, which may help explain why Apple didn't catch it in time.)

As I recall, as far as shipping releases go, bugs in 11 and 13 seemed to hit particularly many people, whereas 10, 12, 14, and beyond didn't. I heard relatively little about issues with 15, and the fast adoption of 16 suggests it, too, is doing OK in terms of quality.

I certainly don't get the impression that "This is absolutely the most embarrassing release for Apple."
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I'm a delivery driver with a new 14 PM that was running 16.1. The GPS bug absolutely hit me Saturday trying to deliver pizzas. I use my phone for all my deliveries and it was not fun with the bugs Maps and Google Maps was giving me. I downgraded to 16.0.1 Sunday morning, delivered again that night and it was fine again.
 
Unregistered 4U said:
There’s no software that has “no obvious bugs”. None. For any piece of software out today, just google something like “-software- obvious bugs” and you’ll see how true that is.
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What does google have to do with anything. I am talking about quality control and the difference between no QC, catch it all in beta with customers and a lot of QC, and let customer catch edge cases. With Apple the break between the two is almost all the way over to let customers catch them all.

I have been writing software for a long time and I have written no-bug software. This software if it failed had estimated casualties at 35,000. It was expensive. So yes it is possible to write no-bug software. I also wrote some different software that was used in hospitals that took 25 years to find the first bug (and no there were no updates the meantime because the software was burned into ROM). Just because you have been propagandized to believe that it is impossible to write bug free code does not mean it is so.

The issue is cost. Apple seems to have the view that cost avoidance (lack of robust QC) is more important that bug free code. Couple that with the fact that people actually believe the propaganda that bug free code is impossible and I don't think Apple will ever change.

Bugs versus cost is a sliding scale that Apple has happily moved to the lowest cost solution. I am glad you're happy with that, I am not.
 
What’s interesting is when my iPhone 14 pro max 16.1 beta is connected to car play it’s accurate. When it’s not it shows your location a few miles off.
 
MacRumors said:


iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max owners should be aware that the iOS 16.1 beta is preventing the GPS from working properly on the devices for many users. Anyone who relies on location tracking should avoid the beta for now.

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Bugs are common with beta software, but this issue affects a core function of the iPhone, prompting us to share this warning. iPhone 14 Pro users who already installed the iOS 16.1 beta will have to downgrade to iOS 16.0.1 or wait until a later iOS 16.1 beta fixes the issue in order to restore GPS functionality. A cause of the bug is unclear.

Like the Apple Watch Ultra, iPhone 14 Pro models feature dual-frequency GPS support. This means the iPhones can receive signals from GPS satellites operating on both the legacy L1 frequency and the higher-power L5 frequency, which can better travel through obstacles like buildings and trees. A combination of the two signals should lead to improved location accuracy in mapping apps and more.

The standard iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus do not have dual-frequency GPS support.

Article Link: Warning: iOS 16.1 Beta Breaking GPS on iPhone 14 Pro Models
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iOS 16.1 beta 2 has been released. Hopefully, this fixes the issue! 🤞🏼
 
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