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by xhruso00 2738 days ago
Do we benefit already? I have no idea which positioning system is in effect. E.g. I am in Russia - Have I just used GPS, Galilleo, Glonass or combination of all 3 of them (iPhone 8).
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Your iPhone is indifferent to the type of the system and likely uses several of them at once.
Some (many? all? I have no idea) consumer chipsets with multiple GNSS support can get position from multiple constellations, but cannot combine the signals into one mixed constellation result of better quality than the best single-constellation result they get. In most cases what you see is the GPS result, except when you are close to one of the poles, which are uniquely (afaik) served by Glonass.
On android there are countless apps that show you the satellites currently received, I guess there are similar apps for iphones as well.