How GPS Finds Your Phone is an AI-narrated story video made with TubeTube in the Motion-graphics flat visual style, 0:51 long across 5 scenes. Scene images were generated with GPT Image 2 · Low and animated with Hailuo 2.3 · 768p, narrated by the "Liam - Energetic, Social Media Creator" voice. The full recipe below is remixable: reuse the same style and settings with your own words.
Your phone knows your location, yet satellites cannot see you. High above Earth, GPS satellites constantly broadcast signals containing their position and a precise timestamp. Your phone simply listens. When a signal arrives, it compares the arrival time with the transmission time. Since radio waves travel at the speed of light, this delay translates into precise distance. One satellite places you on a massive sphere. A second and third narrow down the possibilities. With multiple signals, your phone calculates its exact coordinates. You are not being tracked from space. Your phone is solving a geometry problem using signals from thousands of kilometers away.