Keeping Google Maps data on phone

[joe8232]

Hi all,

I am planning a trip to New Zealand towards the end of August and was just wondering if I use my iPhone to view street maps of the major cities will they stay in the cache so that I won't have to reload them when I get there to avoid huge data costs?

Hope that makes sense

[Minimoose 360]

Well, it does make sense. I believe Maps does have somewhat of a cache, but it only remains there for a very short time. I know when I use it, load some locations, they are cached as long as I don't put my iPhone back to sleep...but sadly after I do and open Maps again, it has to load it again.

I hope in an update they make an option where you can choose to have Maps cache everything permanently or not, that would be so nice.

[emirates]

it's not an ideal solution but you could take a series of screenshots before you set off on your trip. Just a thought.

[EvryDayImShufln]

I dont really understand how the cache works. I'm not subscribed to any data plans, yet when I click locate me (with wifi off, and me in my house (I've clicked it earlier with wifi on) and it locates me no problem, and shows a cached image of my location. This is even after rebooting the iPhone, so it's baffling that google maps would keep this in its cache on the flash memory.

Strange.

[livemixer]

It's frustrating to me that you must have cell service to be able to use Google Maps with GPS. Especially when I'm camping in the mountains or somewhere I don't have any service and I need to use the GPS. Any chance of this being rectified in an update?