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TL;DR A concerning number of Pixel 10 users have been reporting poor GPS performance.
Affected devices exhibit jerky location data, with incorrect speed and direction.
It’s not yet clear if this is specifically a Pixel 10 issue, or possibly something tied to Android 16.
Have we gotten a little entitled when it comes to location data? It wasn’t that long ago when we’d have to print out turn-by-turn directions and pay very close attention to where we were if we wanted to navigate anywhere — and now, we get nervous when we don’t have a GPS satellite lock pinpointing our location down a meter or two. If you find yourself in that same location-anxiety group, we sure hope you’re not rocking a Pixel phone, as a large number of users report a variety of problems concerning the quality of their GPS data.
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GPS problems in general are hardly anything new, and we don’t infrequently hear a few reports about a new phone running into some problems consistently achieving a nice, accurate GPS lock. Even Pixel hardware isn’t immune to complaints like those — but it sure feels like they’re blowing up all over the place with Google’s latest handsets.
Over the past few months, we’ve identified dozens of reports across Google’s own Pixel community forums (like this post from Matt Adamski) and Reddit’s Pixel sub alike (such as this one from Last_Ad1873), all describing inconsistent, poor-quality GPS location data — and the lion’s share of it on Pixel 10 handsets.
Are you having problems with erratic GPS location data? 2 votes Yes, on my Pixel 10. 100 % Yes, on my older Pixel phone. 0 % Yes, on another Android device. 0 % Nope, no problems here! 0 %
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