Alert: Compatibility Issue with Apple iOS 8.3 and External GPS Receivers
DO NOT UPGRADE YOUR APPLE DEVICE TO iOS 8.3 IF YOU RELY ON AN EXTERNAL GPS RECEIVER.
We are investigating reports that iOS 8.3 (released by Apple earlier this week) is not feeding GPS data from most external GPS receivers into 3rd party apps, such as ForeFlight, WingX, JeppFD, Navionics, and others. We have reproduced this issue in our lab and confirmed that this issue is not unique to Bad Elf GPS receivers, but affects other GPS receivers from Garmin and Dual Electronics as well.
Our newer GPS accessories, including the Bad Elf GPS for Lightning (BE-GPS-1008), Bad Elf GPS Pro+ (BE-GPS-2300), and Bad Elf GNSS Surveyor (BE-GPS-3300) do not seem to be negatively impacted.
We are working with Apple to resolve this issue and will provide status updates as we get more information. In the meantime, we recommend you wait to upgrade your Apple devices to iOS 8.3.
Update (Monday 13-April): We've passed all of the necessary information to Apple Support and got confirmation over the weekend that it has been passed to the correct team. We're optimistic it will be fixed in the next iOS 8.3.x release, and will post updates as we receive them.
Update (Thursday 16-April): We're still awaiting any news from Apple. In the meantime, we’re exploring several possible workarounds. We have confirmed that the beta iOS 8.4 released earlier this week has the same GPS issue. Some customers have reported successfully downgrading their iOS back to iOS 8.2, but we can’t recommend that process to our customers — it’s not supported by Apple and requires a complete wipe of your settings/apps/data. If you are a pilot grounded by this issue, please contact us via email to support@bad-elf.com and we’ll see what we can do to help. Rest assured we are doing everything in our power to get this resolved and will send another email when we have any new information.
For future updates on the iOS 8.3 situation, please view the latest information on our supplemental blog post, available here.
I too did an upgrade before seeing anything about this issue.
I have been happily using my BadElf 2200 Pro with an iPad and iNavX until now.
I have had email w iNavX that resulted in a few links, but none of the discussed solutions fixed the issue. I even did a reinstall of the App.
BadElf does connect to the iPad, and show the info in the BadElf app, but not in iNavX.
I spoke at length with Apple Support today, also to no avail. They finally ended with the revelation that the problem was NOT the OS 8.3 but either iNavX or the BadElf. When I asked if they were doing anything to help resolve this issue, the support person said they were not working on it.!!
So who is looking into this and when will it be fixed!!?
Help.
Thx
Too late for me as well, I am a sailor and use the iPad for a backup navigational system and for an anchor watch program. All worked well until my last trip with the newly upgraded iOS8.3!
Hi folks,
Still no updates from Apple, so we don’t have much to report. We do know that the issue is being worked internally, and assume it will be fixed soon. Many commercial and military pilots are being affected by this issue.
We will post any updates we get ASAP via the blog, email, and Twitter. Thanks for your patience.
Best regards,
Brett
I upgrades to 8.3 on my mini iPad and the external GPS stopped working with sky demon.
I have bought a google nexus 7 second hand with a built in GPS and this works a treat.
You can pick up a second hand Nexus 7 for under £100.00
So much for that Monday update