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Kablooie

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5. Here's what worked for me...

Reply to Lionel Mandrake (Original post)

Thu Aug 25, 2016, 11:49 AM

Aug 2016

Go to:
Settings - Privacy - Location Services - System Services:
and turn off Compass Calibration.

Then the compass started working properly.
It's nuts I know but the compass refused to indicate north until I did this.

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WTF - compass for ipad doesn't work. [View all] Lionel Mandrake Aug 2016 OP

Did you calibrate it? Old and In the Way Aug 2016 #1

I tried that several times. Lionel Mandrake Aug 2016 #2

I think it is a gps sensor, not a magnetic sensor. Nt Old and In the Way Aug 2016 #3

I think you're right. Lionel Mandrake Aug 2016 #4

Here's what worked for me... Kablooie Aug 2016 #5

I tried that. Lionel Mandrake Aug 2016 #6