Apple to use BeiDou Navigation in iPhone 12 Series

Apple and the iPhone line, specially, has never had an smooth relationship with the chinese market. constantly due to local regulations and many legal and political circumstances. as a result, the same ports stunning and perfectly justifiable nature of the fact that iPhones still lack official help for China’s BeiDou navigation system.

According to a brand new report from industry insiders, that would eventually change with the introduction of the iPhone 12 Series. BeiDou spokesperson and director of the China satellite Navigation office, Ran Chengqi, in an interview that : “Apple will use the BeiDou navigation system…” and it give us hint toward the implementation process.

More importantly, that vague hint was later backed-up through familiar assets, claiming that Apple is presently within the procedure of debugging iPhone 12 series overall performance and compatibility. apparently, one of the assessments being conducted is verifying proper BeiDou support.


The lack of such support has simply been one in all the largest and longest-standing complaints among Chines iPhone users. presently. The best iPhone 11 pro Max(till the date) only a GPS receiver, plus A-GPS, with GLONASS, GALILEO and QZSS support.

The BeiDou system covers over 200 nations, with extra than 100 million users and 200 million daily sessions. BeiDou-capable gadgets and specifically smartphones have long been the norm on the local marketplace and throughout maximum of the Asia-Pacific vicinity, where the BeiDou gadget has the nice performance. BeiDou-succesful products are also already being exported and used in over 120 international locations and regions around the world. The dearth of help has been a prime handicap for Apple and its clear up will offer significant advantages to a massive part of its user base. In mild of that, it will likely be thrilling to see whether or not Cupertino makes a massive announcement as soon as BeiDou is hopefully completely implemented, or will definitely slip that in, with out a lot fanfare inside the respectable iPhone 12 specifications sheets.