Apple Maps Ads Move Closer to Launch With iOS 26.5 Beta 2

[egdiroh]

Any directory like this will be weaponedized without a cost from the people being listed to gain any advantage and a staff to patrol for mischief.

If the revenue from ads is purely for funding the staff and improving the quality of the offering. I'm potentially ok with it. If it's going to be a profit center, then I am somewhat troubled by the descent into selling their customers.

 

[Unregistered 4U]

So, one more reason to stay away from 26.5. Got it.
I mean, if Apple offer a superior mapping product comparing to their competition, then they may have grounds to include this junk.
But, let's be honest here. Do they?

In the US, they do. I recently used Google Maps via CarPlay just because I thought Apple Maps was wrong about the location. One big difference I noticed was a lack of lane guidance. Google has this available in 30 metro areas, so, good if you live in one of those areas. I apparently don’t. 🙂

 

[9640418]

Since I am staying on iOS 18, I wonder if I will get ads

 

[Unregistered 4U]

Any directory like this will be weaponedized without a cost from the people being listed to gain any advantage and a staff to patrol for mischief.

If the revenue from ads is purely for funding the staff and improving the quality of the offering. I'm potentially ok with it. If it's going to be a profit center, then I am somewhat troubled by the descent into selling their customers.

I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s driven by companies threatening to fight Apple in the EU if Apple doesn’t give them more opportunities to advertise to Apple’s customers.

 

[Unregistered 4U]

Since I am staying on iOS 18, I wonder if I will get ads

Nah, you’ll just eventually (potentially)have your security compromised by a zero day. With many folks opting to upgrade, it’s a beacon to malicious actors when they find out what OS a particular iPhone user is using. And, the more folks upgrade, the brighter that beacon becomes.

 

[Apple_Robert]

Hopefully, NextDNS will remove the ads like it does for Apple News.

 

[lepetitnicolas]

Hopefully, NextDNS will remove the ads like it does for Apple News.

May I ask you which specific filter you use to get rid of ads in Apple News ??? For me they still show up.

 

[Zenman12]

Hopefully, NextDNS will remove the ads like it does for Apple News.

It’s insane that when you pay for News you still get ads. I had the trial and I still got ads. A joke.

 

[fortfive]

Google Maps has even more ads.

Yes but at least it works way better for finding stuff. Plus it has pretty good traffic info.

 

[dguisinger]

I’ve used Apple Maps for many years now, I’m not aware of any trouble. It just works.

I do not like the idea of ads though.

Depends on the area....

New developments near me, somtimes it can drop you at a random house half a mile away and insist that its the address when its nothing close.

My biggest issue with Apple Maps is the idiotic session management. I program routes into Apple Maps for several stops, I get out of the car just far enough for CarPlay to disconnect, I come back to the car, reconnect and it suggests going home and has wiped out my half driven route forcing my to reenter it. (and adjusting your route works via the phone when not connected to car play... once connected, you can add a destination but you can't change the order... clearly Apple Maps developers never actually use it for anything work related)

 

[datsdatcharlie]

Ad-Free with iCloud Plus maybe?

 

[Wasp14]

Entire reason I was using Apple Maps over Google was due to no ads, so tired of Apple charging a premium and then cluttering up the user experience with this. The entire point of owning their stuff was that they didn’t do stuff like this.

 

[Delivered]

Wonder if the first ads will be for new settlements near Tyre. 😂🤣

 

[Canyonero]

Final nail in the coffin for me to finally fully switch over to Google Maps. No ads was the only reason (apart from nicer UI) to use Apple Maps.

 

[egroge]

I will be staying on 26.3.1. This is not just due to ads on Apple Maps but I also find the os is being loaded with things I am not interested in and I find it difficult to turn it off and impossible to remove. Windows is going/gone the same way. I will just maintain a windows laptop with up-to-date software that I need to use where security is important.

My iPad will be solely for content consumption and not have anything of interest on it, unless someone wants to break into my netflix account. At some point the apps may stop working. I can live with that.

 

[Apple_Robert]

May I ask you which specific filter you use to get rid of ads in Apple News ??? For me they still show up.

I can tell you when I get home and in front of my Mac. I use a custom profile that works across all my device.

 

[whitby]

One of things that attracted me to Apple systems in the first place was the lack of advertising. Apple interfaces were clean with no insane popups and screen real estate being taken up by advertising. Google Maps, for example, although very good, can get overwhelmed with ads when you do a search to the point that it is difficult to find the place you are looking for. And note the precious screen real estate taken up when you do a search and get a map plus a load of rubbish advertising. I want to see the map not some ad pushing something I am not at all interested in. We pay a premium for Apple products and services and part of the pay off is that they have never pushed advertising and unnecessary promotional content at you.

I have always sworn to never pay for a service that delivers advertising. To that end I would have no problems if Apple offered an ad free version of Maps for which I had to pay. But if I am forced to take it, I am pretty sure I am going to use my BMW's built in system, which I was surprised to find out when I accidentally used it the other day, is pretty good. I can send my destination to the car from my phone, iPad or computer without using any mapping application anywhere except the built in car system. We are going backwards.

 

[Apple MessagePad]

Ads have been in Google Maps for years and no one is bothered by them. Folks looking for every reason under the sun to complain.

 

[Robert.Walter]

TL😀R but is there an off switch? That would be customer focussed.

 

[Robert.Walter]

One of things that attracted me to Apple systems in the first place was the lack of advertising. Apple interfaces were clean with no insane popups and screen real estate being taken up by advertising. Google Maps, for example, although very good, can get overwhelmed with ads when you do a search to the point that it is difficult to find the place you are looking for. And note the precious screen real estate taken up when you do a search and get a map plus a load of rubbish advertising. I want to see the map not some ad pushing something I am not at all interested in. We pay a premium for Apple products and services and part of the pay off is that they have never pushed advertising and unnecessary promotional content at you.

I have always sworn to never pay for a service that delivers advertising. To that end I would have no problems if Apple offered an ad free version of Maps for which I had to pay. But if I am forced to take it, I am pretty sure I am going to use my BMW's built in system, which I was surprised to find out when I accidentally used it the other day, is pretty good. I can send my destination to the car from my phone, iPad or computer without using any mapping application anywhere except the built in car system. We are going backwards.

note the precious screen real estate taken up when you do a search and get a map plus a load of rubbish advertising.

Hence the need for a foldable iPhone? Haha. Boo on Cue and Cook.

 

[Marbles1]

Apple don’t have to do this.

They could have differentiated Apple Maps from Google maps by making it ad free.

I don’t see the point in Apple Maps now.

 

[Lerxt]

Might as well continue to use Google Maps, they're better anyway.

 

[deathcab]

Well, looks like 26.4.1 may be the end of the line for my iPhone 17 Pro.

Dear cyber hackers, please be kind to those of us end up stuck on old versions of iOS in order to avoid more ads.

 

[Yrmmont]

I have already deleted Apple Maps. I will use Google Maps on my Tesla.

 

[Permanent Sigh]

Wonder if adguard and similar filter them out