A Samsung Community post<\/strong><\/a> titled “S22 Ultra problems with GPS” had 203 replies in three weeks, suggesting the issue was not isolated.<\/p>\n Users noticed that navigation apps like Google Maps and Waze were unable to get the phone’s GPS position, despite the Location setting being turned on.<\/p>\n GPS is also required for pinpointing a user’s location in e-hailing apps such as Uber and Uber Eats.<\/p>\n However, users should be able to set pickup and delivery addresses for these particular apps manually.<\/p>\n Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra. Credit: Karlis Dambrans \/ Shutterstock.com<\/p><\/div>\n A user testing the problem using the GPS Test app could not find any satellites until he restarted his phone.<\/p>\n Several said that restarting the phone supposedly restored GPS functionality, but this would only work for a few hours.<\/p>\n One user had even attempted a factory reset, but the GPS would also stop working after a few hours.<\/p>\n So far, none of the workarounds noted by the Samsung Community members helped to fix the problem.<\/p>\n Samsung is yet to officially acknowledge the problem or confirm it is working on a patch, provided the issue is software-related.<\/p>\n Disgruntled users have called on fellow S22 Ultra owners to report the problem via the Samsung Members app if they are experiencing the same issue.<\/p>\n Numerous users of Samsung’s new top-of-the-line Galaxy S22 Ultra smartphone are reporting that their built-in GPS has stopped working, making it impossible to use apps that rely on location tracking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341042,"featured_media":433356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17934],"tags":[2272,60567,645,72830,9954],"class_list":["post-438222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","tag-google-maps","tag-location-tracking","tag-samsung","tag-samsung-galaxy-s22-ultra","tag-waze"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438324,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438222\/revisions\/438324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/shutterstock_2120742602-1.jpg\")
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