GPS Not Tracking Location Accurately On Galaxy S8 And Galaxy S8 Plus

More often than not, we get messages from our readers about the GPS not working on Galaxy S8 smartphones. If GPS navigation is your problem too, you may not find great comfort in the news that many other users are dealing with GPS issues not accurately tracking location or giving directions.

Nevertheless, you probably experienced all those problems on your Samsung Galaxy S8 smartphone, while using the Google Maps app, right? The troubleshooting shouldn’t be too complicated since it can be:

A software issue;
A hardware issue with the physical GPS antenna of your smartphone.

As you can imagine, the latter will require taking the phone to a technician. Still, if it’s software, you can fix it yourself and it’s not even that hard:

Go to the Home screen;
Tap into the Apps menu;
Select Settings;
Navigate to Privacy and Safety;
Select Location;
Select the Location Method;
From the list of options, check the one labeled as “GPS, Wi-Fi, and mobile networks” – it should give you the optimal GPS performance;
Leave the menus and try to use the GPS again.

Another easy software fix you could try is to download the GPS Status and Toolbox from your Google Play Store. It’s a super simple app that does a great job with increasing your GPS accuracy.

When the two options from above combined don’t seem to have much effect, your Samsung Galaxy S8 GPS tracking problem could have some hardware issues…