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dwrufus53

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Jun 20, 2025
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For the life of me, I cannot understand why Apple refuses to allow us to force Apple Maps to orient NORTH as up on the maps. It seems to always default to north as up when holding my phone and using maps. But connect that phone to CarPlay, and Apple Maps insists that the direction that your car is headed is "up". This is incredibly disorienting.

Both Google Maps and Waze do this properly, but for some unknown reason the engineers and developers at Apple insist on doing this their way.

Is there a way for force the issue here? I've reported it, suggested and provided "feedback" to Apple, but so far to no avail.
 
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