Apple Car Play gives wrong Location w/iphone16pro & ios18.1

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Apple Car Play gives wrong Location w/iphone16pro & ios18.1

My navigation apps in my iPhone 16 pro with ios18.1 work ok (I live in Argentina - south Atlantic coast), but when I connect the phone to my Apple CarPlay (Ford Territory 2022) my location goes to he Equator near Africa´s Atlantic Coast!

Imposible to navigate cause the navigation apps tell me I am far away from my destination.

My Location in the iPhone (Buenos Aires - Argentina):

Wrong Location (Equator/Africa) when connected to CarPlay:

I guess this can be the following issues:

a) CarPlay update for iPhone 16 pro and iOS 18 - Does anyone knows something about this

b) Sync Nav firmware update in the car system - (Ford issue)

c) Car GPS System malfunction (Ford issue)

Please if anyone have the solution for this, please let me know.

iPhone 16 Pro, iOS 18

Posted on Nov 14, 2024 4:09 PM

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MartinB_Arg Author

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Nov 15, 2024 6:36 AM in response to MartinB_Arg

Hello, This morning I tested the problem again with my phone and my previous iPhone 12pro with iOS 17.6 and the conclusion is not the Car GPS nor the Car´s Nav Sync App. It´s the iPhone 16 pro and/or iOS 18.

With iPhone 12 Pro and ios17.6 Both the phone and CarPlay works ok and gives correct location and navigation, while CarPlay still have the same problem with iPhone 16 pro and iOS 18.

Please see the follwing photos (apple CarPlay and gps diagnostic app)

Connected to iPhone 16 pro / iOS 18 - Location in Maps Equator Africa see coordinates too (10:29 am)

Connected to iPhone 12 pro / iOS 17.6 - Location in Maps Buenos Aires / argentina see coordinates too (10:36 am)

Please someone from Apple, please take note of this and send us an iOS update. Thanks

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MartinB_Arg Author

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Nov 15, 2024 7:54 AM in response to MartinB_Arg

Apple Engineers!, I think I have just realized what is the problem...

When connected to CarPlay the program take the degrees coordinates as minutes coordinates and put 0 degrees both in latitude and longitude coordinates.

Please can you solve this bug?

Thanks!

PS. My iOS is 18.1 on my iPhone 16pro

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