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To: Star Traveler

On an iPhone the GPS is not GPS. It’s triangulation between cell towers or wifi.

So, if you don’t have access to more than one source, it will approximate.

It’s not accurate at all, relatively speaking.


46 posted on 04/01/2014 8:37:36 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (If you want to keep your dignity, you can keep it. Period........ Just kidding, you can't keep it.)
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To: Vermont Lt

>> “On an iPhone the GPS is not GPS. It’s triangulation between cell towers or wifi” <<

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Its both. The GPS tracking can be turned off, but the system tracking can’t.


48 posted on 04/01/2014 8:42:29 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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