Comment by metalliqaz
8 years ago
Airplane mode would work, yes. But it only works against the cell provider. The on-phone GPS can still work and sync the data later.
8 years ago
Airplane mode would work, yes. But it only works against the cell provider. The on-phone GPS can still work and sync the data later.
I would imagine the airplane mode deactivates GPS signal recipience?
I can confirm that it doesn't, at least on the iPhone 7. I recently took one on an overseas trip and left it in airplane mode the whole time. The photos I took during the trip were all properly geotagged.
Nope https://www.macobserver.com/analysis/ios-airplane-mode-gps-n...
GPS is passive, so there's no need to disable it in airplane mode.
Why?
Would it only prevent transmission of radio signals, not reception of them.
Just the TX, not the RX.
Inside of a faraday cage, there is no GPS reception.