To do that you should just add your frequently visited destinations to Favorites. Then it will go through the route when you choose it, and you can silence Siri. Alerts should still appear (they do on mine).
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Apple Exec Explains Why You Should Use Apple Maps
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This argument comes up often in these messages, yet Google were developing something new, while Apple came in [supposedly] knowing the state of play at the time. Of course AM will improve with time, but so will Google Maps and the rest of competition. I prefer AM interface to anything else and my major issue with them is a currently poor POI database and absence of most new & cool features talked about in the CNN article, as the new AM have not been released here yet. For now Google are just way bolder with implementing new features and rolling them widely for as many people as possible worldwide.
Every year, I give Apple Maps a chance. I do a simple test: I type in 3 common addresses that I go to every day. If it can get the continent right, I will switch to Apple Maps. So far, no luck. It will suggest matches in thousands of small Chinese villages, or in Russia, or in some extremely far away places. I don't care how good Apple Maps is if it can't resolve simple addresses then it's useless.
In the beginning, I always said it was okay, since Google had a head start. But today Apple Maps is 2 years older than Google Maps was when Apple maps was introduced. And back then, Google Maps was great and worked perfectly well. Apple still hasn't come close to getting there.
Pro tip to Apple engineers: if someone types in an address, chances are, 99.99% of the time, it will be in the country they are currently in. No need to search the entire Earth for partial matches. In fact, chances are, you only need to search in a 1-2 hour radius, before looking any further.
In the beginning, I always said it was okay, since Google had a head start. But today Apple Maps is 2 years older than Google Maps was when Apple maps was introduced. And back then, Google Maps was great and worked perfectly well. Apple still hasn't come close to getting there.
Pro tip to Apple engineers: if someone types in an address, chances are, 99.99% of the time, it will be in the country they are currently in. No need to search the entire Earth for partial matches. In fact, chances are, you only need to search in a 1-2 hour radius, before looking any further.
Actually, Apple maps is now 9 years old. Google maps was 7 years old when Apple maps was released. And even then, Google maps was better than Apple maps is now. There are simply no excuses.
Next year, Apple will announce a change to Apple Maps so it can log and report everywhere you travel, on the off-chance you have someone locked in your trunk.
I refuse to use google for the tin hat reasons. Id rather have apple track me and pretend they dont than google who says they do and then uses that advertising information to sell me an ice cream.
This App..rural is a disaster. There has been times in which it told me to take a fire road up to a waterfall. I get to the location and its a 1/2 mile hike straight down a cliff.
It took two weeks before it knew a road that was closed to fire was open again. Google had it updated the next day but if you did the directions via Apple Maps it had you take a three hour journey the other opposite way.
GPS.. ill be driving down the road, and all of the sudden im two blocks away.. Yes more internal but the software should realize I just didn't magically transport 100 feet away. Then reroute it.
They need to download more of the maps into the phone Cache. My 2008 Stereo navigation can get me from point a to point b with out the need for internet because of internal storage. The cellular industry is horrific. You might get to a camping spot and there isn't any cell service, so give me a choice to download the local area.
Then maybe know how to get back to point A.
Give the option to turn off the Lock Screen map option. While its a great feature when your visiting a city you might want to take pictures. I swipe right to left on the Lock Screen to take a quick snap shot then put it back into my pocket before anyone notices and tries to steal my phone. When that is open I have to swipe up usually twice, then put in my password because for some reason it didn't connect to my Apple Watch then leave the app then open up the camera.
One other thing. When using it and walking. I have gone the wrong way more than once because the little arrow that points my direction is going the wrong way.
Also this artwork during my visit to New York City was beautiful no idea what happened but had to quit maps and reopen it.
This App..rural is a disaster. There has been times in which it told me to take a fire road up to a waterfall. I get to the location and its a 1/2 mile hike straight down a cliff.
It took two weeks before it knew a road that was closed to fire was open again. Google had it updated the next day but if you did the directions via Apple Maps it had you take a three hour journey the other opposite way.
GPS.. ill be driving down the road, and all of the sudden im two blocks away.. Yes more internal but the software should realize I just didn't magically transport 100 feet away. Then reroute it.
They need to download more of the maps into the phone Cache. My 2008 Stereo navigation can get me from point a to point b with out the need for internet because of internal storage. The cellular industry is horrific. You might get to a camping spot and there isn't any cell service, so give me a choice to download the local area.
Then maybe know how to get back to point A.
Give the option to turn off the Lock Screen map option. While its a great feature when your visiting a city you might want to take pictures. I swipe right to left on the Lock Screen to take a quick snap shot then put it back into my pocket before anyone notices and tries to steal my phone. When that is open I have to swipe up usually twice, then put in my password because for some reason it didn't connect to my Apple Watch then leave the app then open up the camera.
One other thing. When using it and walking. I have gone the wrong way more than once because the little arrow that points my direction is going the wrong way.
Also this artwork during my visit to New York City was beautiful no idea what happened but had to quit maps and reopen it.
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One to do not use it:
1 - Select an alternate route of the ones shown (not the main suggested)
2 - Get lost
3 - Recalculation will use the preferred one and not taking into account your initial choice anymore. This is really frustrating in long travels because you have no warning of this route change.
1 - Select an alternate route of the ones shown (not the main suggested)
2 - Get lost
3 - Recalculation will use the preferred one and not taking into account your initial choice anymore. This is really frustrating in long travels because you have no warning of this route change.
Two weeks is impressive. A major highway in my city took Garmin a year and a half to deliver their update.
I have grown to dislike anything google touches and have come to agree with jobs in this. He saw the monster google would become. I don’t care if Apple Maps has less features, they aren’t selling my location to companies and countries. That in and of itself is enough to make me like it better. That being said, I’ve used Apple Maps for a long time now and it just keeps getting better. I have no issues with it and haven’t for a while.
Stupid question but how long has Apple Maps had street view like Google Maps? I only found this out last week when I was in the Apple one and without thinking went to street view and thought wow they have upgraded it... then I realised I was using Apple not Google. When to Google Maps and OMG it now feels so old. Good work Apple on the improvements over the years.
Sadly nothing beats Waze for traffic alerts….cops! Until other apps catch up, other features mean nothing to me.
Can you mark a police car on Apple Maps?
Like others, I use Waze, but I really want to like Apple Maps.
Yes, you can report "speed check" on Apple Maps (in countries where they've rolled it out)
Counter point: the lack of any junction labels/numbers on UK motorways makes Apple Maps absolutely useless.
Thanks for taking one for the team and actually reading a CNN article haha.
I think the reason they’re creating this mini animated world is to prepare for AR/VR and Apple Car.
In the meantime, I’m with you… more frequent updates would be helpful. Little details, like, remembering which direction you were facing when you parked the car?? It’s such an obvious “feature” that the oversight makes me wonder if Apple engineers and execs even use AM.
I prefer Apple Maps precisely because of its integration within the Apple ecosystem including Car Play and the fact that you can shut off historical location tracking but Google Maps remains the best overall traditional maps app and Waze remains the best app to monitor traffic jams and reroute you in in real time.
I have all 3 on my phone though I find myself using Google Maps less and less. I’d really like for Apple to focus less on chasing Google Maps at this point and to focus more on chasing Waze style features. I’d like to be able to pick a mode. Either focus on getting me there with the shortest / quickest overall route and real time route suggestions if there’s a bad enough traffic jam or a on real time re-reroute mode that uses as much real time traffic data as possible to detect and re-route automatically around traffic jams even if it means taking some side streets or state highways versus major expressways / freeways without having to do anything.
I live in Metro Detroit and we have zero public transportation outside of a patchwork bus system that is more county based than region based. It is also common for those of us in the area to have a place “up north” (a generic term for a 2 hour plus drive northbound). When you’re stuck in rush hour traffic or heading “up north” on a Friday or coming home on a Sunday you want real time rerouting. Traffic jams heading to and coming home from “up north” happen often given the limited amount of freeways /expressways that can get you there. I’d rather be moving around traffic than sitting in it stopped while there is construction or an accident. At least you can stop somewhere if you’re hungry or need to use the rest room. When you’re stuck in traffic you’ve got no options when you’re far enough “up north” that you know the next exit isn’t for a couple of miles. It would be nice to have one app that could do both depending on what you tell it when you head out and to be able to switch between modes easily when en route.
I have all 3 on my phone though I find myself using Google Maps less and less. I’d really like for Apple to focus less on chasing Google Maps at this point and to focus more on chasing Waze style features. I’d like to be able to pick a mode. Either focus on getting me there with the shortest / quickest overall route and real time route suggestions if there’s a bad enough traffic jam or a on real time re-reroute mode that uses as much real time traffic data as possible to detect and re-route automatically around traffic jams even if it means taking some side streets or state highways versus major expressways / freeways without having to do anything.
I live in Metro Detroit and we have zero public transportation outside of a patchwork bus system that is more county based than region based. It is also common for those of us in the area to have a place “up north” (a generic term for a 2 hour plus drive northbound). When you’re stuck in rush hour traffic or heading “up north” on a Friday or coming home on a Sunday you want real time rerouting. Traffic jams heading to and coming home from “up north” happen often given the limited amount of freeways /expressways that can get you there. I’d rather be moving around traffic than sitting in it stopped while there is construction or an accident. At least you can stop somewhere if you’re hungry or need to use the rest room. When you’re stuck in traffic you’ve got no options when you’re far enough “up north” that you know the next exit isn’t for a couple of miles. It would be nice to have one app that could do both depending on what you tell it when you head out and to be able to switch between modes easily when en route.
I use Apple maps, have for several years now. Mostly because its there. The nav has been wrong a couple times for addresses - once was VERY wrong, but it's generally fine.
"3D" view stopped working for my area a few months back, but at least the imagery is no longer 10+ years old. You could previously still see some of the 2010 Olympic games setup.
"3D" view stopped working for my area a few months back, but at least the imagery is no longer 10+ years old. You could previously still see some of the 2010 Olympic games setup.
Another Apple customer fooled by Apple advertising? Google does not sell your location to anyone. Sticking with Apple Maps you just keep using inferior service
Yea, and only 7 years (September 2012) after Goolge maps (February 2005) was introduced, and 16 years (1996) since Mapquest was introduced.
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”Hand crafted” is a great selling point when buying Italian leather shoes.
”Hand crafted” in software can only mean two things: it doesn’t scale and it requires manual maintenance. It’s another pretty feature that will never go beyond a few metropolitan cities and mostly in US.
Apple Maps is a work in progress.
The main feature that's missing is the ability to program in a route with intermediate stops. It's incredible that Apple has left off this very commonly used feature; Apple Maps only has the lame "Pit Stop" feature, while on Google Maps you can have up to nine intermediate stops. Hence, for long road trips, where you're planning on making several stops along the way, Google Maps is far better. Google Maps also has better navigation for bicycling and walking, as well as more photos of places, and works better in rural locations as well as outside of the U.S..
And of course Google Maps is a multi-platform application so if you're on a road trip with multiple vehicles everyone can program in the same route as well as sharing locations.
Google is very responsive when you report an error in Google Maps, but I've never tried reporting an error in Apple Maps.
Where Apple Maps is superior is in its audible instructions, at least I have found it better when away from home and trying to figure out where to turn. Apple Maps is less reliant on street names.
Apple really needs to get on the ball and add multi-stop capability to Apple Maps. They might also want to offer it on the Google Play Store.
The main feature that's missing is the ability to program in a route with intermediate stops. It's incredible that Apple has left off this very commonly used feature; Apple Maps only has the lame "Pit Stop" feature, while on Google Maps you can have up to nine intermediate stops. Hence, for long road trips, where you're planning on making several stops along the way, Google Maps is far better. Google Maps also has better navigation for bicycling and walking, as well as more photos of places, and works better in rural locations as well as outside of the U.S..
And of course Google Maps is a multi-platform application so if you're on a road trip with multiple vehicles everyone can program in the same route as well as sharing locations.
Google is very responsive when you report an error in Google Maps, but I've never tried reporting an error in Apple Maps.
Where Apple Maps is superior is in its audible instructions, at least I have found it better when away from home and trying to figure out where to turn. Apple Maps is less reliant on street names.
Apple really needs to get on the ball and add multi-stop capability to Apple Maps. They might also want to offer it on the Google Play Store.