iOS 6 breaks GeoLocation in webapps (apple-mobile-web-app-capable)

Question

I have an app that does a simple textbook navigator.geoLocation.watchPosition(...) that works great in iOS 5.x both in Safari and as a web app (using apple-mobile-web-app-ca

Answer 1

here is a video of me replicating the bug and demonstrating a work around. This bug appears to exist weather you use the web app meta tag or not.

http://youtu.be/ygprgHh6LxA

Update: 121212 - IOS 6.1 Beta 3 testing shows the bug is still not resolved...

Update: 122012 - IOS 6.1 Beta 4 testing shows the bug is still not resolved...

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Update: 031113 - Replication Example

Okay, it is a simple issue to replicate in just a few seconds. I feel it is not a safari, but an IOS issue. It’s almost as if Google wrote the bios for the IOS to meet the WC3 html geo location spec and took it with them when IOS6 kicked them off the bus. Using an IOS device go here:

http://uc.myaesc.com/geoloctestorig.htm

Click start, watch should return result almost every second. Then click the Google link to leave this page. Then user browser back button to return Click start. Watch will return 1 to 3 records and hang. Minimize safari (home button) and then restore (safari icon); stops hanging

That's it. until it does not hang, the issue remains.

Mark

UPDATE:

IOS 7.1 fixed the issue...