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I'm leaning towards a calibration issue. Apple could release an app for calibrating the sensors and offer to help you at an Apple Store. Anyone familiar with

• Osmium 13y ago
  > I'm leaning towards a calibration issue. Surely this is easy to test? Is the level always off by the same magnitude, in the same direction, for any given phone? Would be nice if the parent article had tested this... If a particular phone is always off by, say, 3.5º it's presumably an easy fix, though, as you say, would require everyone to run a calibration on their phone.
  • hmottestad 13y ago
    If every phone has a slightly different offset = not calibrated A batch of phones has the same offset, but there are different offset between batches = calibrated, but poorly All phones have the same offset = Rounding error, sensor bugs, who knows.
  • arrrg 13y ago
    It seems like my 5S is consistently off by the same amount (about 3°) in the same direction. Seems to me like a software fix will be possible. I have two years warranty, so I’m not too worried at this point, only slightly annoyed.
• raverbashing 13y ago
  " if their sensor software offers calibration" Yes, level apps on the Android offer calibration. Without that, it's worse than the values shown from these iPhones This can be solved by maybe better software and calibration. It looks like not a big issue
  • hmottestad 13y ago
    I meant system-wide calibration. Any app can offer it's own calibration and many iOS games have options for the user to calibrate.