Apple Maps Currently Experiencing Outage [Update: Fixed]

[Schizoid]

Phew! That was close!

 

[belvdr]

Streets are far more complex and busy these days. The gadgets are needed to maintain sanity.

Heh, I don't think they are more complex, and likely not as busy as before. It's just easier to use an app and not a map.

 

[geartau]

I wonder when was the last time this occurred with Google Maps?

we wouldn't know because it's only news worthy if Apple does it.

 

[Wildkraut]

$h17 - the fix came too late

 

[matrix6028]

Any buddy having issues with Carplay? My location on Maps on Carplay keeps jumping all over the place!

 

[JerryDon]

Maps has been jinxed from the get go - albeit improved through the years.

 

[bobtem]

Poor Maps, had to experience this. I hope it is ok.

 

[ponzicoinbro]

I'm gonna have to ask you to turn in your Guy Card for this infraction. A guy would wander around aimlessly, rather than ask for directions.😁 My generation at least.

🙃Hail yeah! Just a compass and the stars, amirite?🙃

Naw man, eagle senses.

 

[sos47]

i just traveled this afternoon from Amsterdam over Brussels and Luxemburg to South Germany, no problem with Apple Maps. Awesome since last update in spring, much better than google maps

 

[acctman]

I wonder when was the last time this occurred with Google Maps?

Today https://downdetector.com/status/google-maps/

 

[ignatius345]

Elaborate. I find Apple Maps navigation to be superior over Google Maps. It does have its oddities, such as choosing routes with U-turns at intersections, which are not permitted in Canada on most highways.

My only beef with Apple Maps is the availability of points of interest. Apple needs to make or buy up a comprehensive and up to date database ASAP. I love navigating with Apple Maps, but all too often I have to look places up on Google or something and then plug them into Apple Maps to get there.

 

[ignatius345]

Elaborate. I find Apple Maps navigation to be superior over Google Maps. It does have its oddities, such as choosing routes with U-turns at intersections, which are not permitted in Canada on most highways.

You can report bad navigation steps, if you have time. Sometimes they actually will email and ask questions when you correct something.

 

[MrCrowbar]

At first glance I read the headline as "Apple Maps Currently Experiencing Outrage" and for a second I thought Apple Maps became self conscious and got really angry at the bad reviews it got a couple years ago and started denying navigation or routed cars into bodies of water.

 

[AppleFanatic10]

And this is why I have more than one maps app.

 

[CarAnalogy]

I wonder when was the last time this occurred with Google Maps?

March 18 of this year according to a quick Google search.

Of course when that happened, Android users likely had no recourse. I know there are others, but I doubt most Android users go out of their way to install a second navigation app. At least as an iPhone user I have Apple and Google maps so on the off chance one of them has an outage, I can just use the other.

 

[ignatius345]

Maps has been jinxed from the get go - albeit improved through the years.

Yeah it was quite rough at the beginning. Turns out it's pretty ambitious to build up mapping system from scratch. The good news is they've put an absoluely massive amount of work into it since and it definitely rivals Google Maps in many ways, and they're continuing to improve it.

 

[randyhudson]

This aged well. Why write articles that have a useful lifetime of minutes/hours? Even my grandmother knows to just check downdetector.com

 

[Granville]

When are they releasing the Maps update in Europe (Belgium, Netherlands, ...)
It should have been updated with the iOS16 release, but it's still not here...

 

[lindros2]

Again outage?
No lookaround in areas which have had it forever.