Calibrate the compass of the iPhone?

I have a new iPhone OS (iOS 9.3). According to Google Maps, the streets of my neighborhood are perfectly North/South and East/West as close as my eye can detect, both within a few degrees maximum. But the compass in my iPhone shows them being about 15 degrees off the coast of true North or 30 degrees on the magnetic north. The magnetic declination at my location is about 15 degrees, it's consistent, but seems to be about 15 degrees off the coast.

Is it possible to calibrate the compass of the phone? Or a compass of this kind is simply not terribly accurate? Or Google Maps is from afar? (The latter seems unlikely.)

I found the web pages that talk about ball to do a bit of red to move around the screen, but I get only the ball. I tried to quit all applications, including the compass application and then launch the compass application, as suggested on one site, but I don't always get the red ball of calibration.

What I am doing wrong? Or this version of automatic calibration and a little off?

Thank you

Calibration of the compass requires that location Services on. The phone detects if it is calibrated or not and will display the calibration screen if it is not.

Rather than relying on Google Maps, get a real pathfinder compass and check the phone against it. Use the compass to draw a North-South line on the floor with chalk, away from any metal (including the iPhone), then check the iPhone against the line you drew.

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