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Apple Maps May Gain Custom Routes With iOS 18

johnnytravels said:
This exactly. What Apple Maps really needs is a proper review system.
The should buy the Yelp data to integrate properly into their own system and then allow people to write new reviews in that system.
Without reviews, Maps is only half complete.
And yeah I wanna switch too, but assessing businesses and restaurants is nearly impossible without proper user engagement…
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Generally if I want to check for businesses etc, I’m not driving at the time. (Too dangerous obviously) so I use google maps for that. But for Navigation, it’s Apple every single time. Google takes me on weird routes and still takes people on wrong routes. We use multiple apps for many reasons. Google is better for reviews, and I believe Apple is better for travelling.

1 month ago in Australia
"Two young men are lucky to be alive after walking for several days in the Cape York wilderness when their car became bogged after they followed Google Maps directions..​
 
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I've been asking since the Garmin days of 2006: Give me a feature where the Map takes me to my destination (say from my house to a restaurant) and then when I want to go home, take me THE SAME WAY (other than obvious issues like a One Way) home. It drives me nuts that all these map apps will take completely different ways each direction from A to B and B to A. I want this feature often because:
  1. It will teach me a way to go from A to B (and vice versa) the same nifty route that I enjoy and in the future I may not need the GPS
  2. It may totally avoid highways or terrible roads
  3. It may be very scenic
  4. It may take me near a particular store/place that might want to pop into.

If such a feature already exists on Apple Maps or Google Maps, I'd love to hear about it.
 
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This could be handy for people who know shortcuts on their route but not enough to get them where they need to be. I know my way around town, but I’m still shocked to discover a back road that saves me time.
 
I use Apple Maps. I like Maps. I almost always gets me to where I want to go.

It would be great if the speed limit for the road I am driving on could show-up on the lock screen. I don't always need Maps when I drive but it would be great to get road speed-limit information....red light and speed camera notification....road construction and delays information on the lock screen. 👏
 
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Does Maps learn from drivers as it is? I feel like it's always telling me to go a couple main routes that I know are slower at certain times of day. Most of the time it doesn't even understand my fave shortcut routes around town when I start to digress...it just keeps telling me to make a UTurn for miles. Google was little better at this last time I used it.
 
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dannyyankou said:
This was true up until like 5 years ago. Now, even people on Android forums complain about how Google Maps has fallen behind.
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I’ve said this on previous forum posts and I’ll say it again here. I’ll never forget my best friend being such an Apple Maps hater for YEARS… and on a road trip last year, I let him guide us with Google Maps to appease him, and guess what?

The app was all turned around and discombobulated. 😂 a handful of times, at that. Neither are perfect - but give up the google maps is perfect dialogue.
 
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anthogag said:
I use Apple Maps. I like Maps. I almost always gets me to where I want to go.

It would be great if the speed limit for the road I am driving on could show-up on the lock screen. I don't always need Maps when I drive but it would be great to get road speed-limit information....red light and speed camera notification....road construction and delays information on the lock screen. 👏
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In Australia and we certainly get both of those things. cameras, delays and speed limits (most of the time) on Apple Maps. I’m not sure how they are updated though. They finally (after 18 months) got rid of a camera that never existed and the speed limit is always wrong in some areas. But saying that, my Subaru (TomTom/Starlink) is also wrong and hasn’t given me updates for 2 years. But now my new car subscription has just run out and they want US$230 per year to update it.

On the iPhone there is a setting to toggle speed limit information. Settings>Maps>Directions/Driving
 
steve09090 said:
In Australia and we certainly get both of those things. cameras, delays and speed limits (most of the time) on Apple Maps. I’m not sure how they are updated though. They finally (after 18 months) got rid of a camera that never existed and the speed limit is always wrong in some areas. But saying that, my Subaru (TomTom/Starlink) is also wrong and hasn’t given me updates for 2 years. But now my new car subscription has just run out and they want US$230 per year to update it.

On the iPhone there is a setting to toggle speed limit information. Settings>Maps>Directions/Driving
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Yes, I have speed limit information when I am using navigation. I am talking about it being on the always-on lock screen when I am driving and not using navigation. It knows I am driving and puts speed limit information on the lock screen. Currently it does not do that.
 
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anthogag said:
Yes, I have speed limit information when I am using navigation. I am talking about it being on the always-on lock screen when I am driving and not using navigation. It knows I am driving and puts speed limit information on the lock screen. Currently it does not do that.
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Sorry, misunderstood. +1 for that. It’d be nice.
 
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I know this forum is US based... been said that, Apple Maps outside North America/Europe falls behind Waze and Google Maps in everything, traffic, public transportation, bike routes, etc.

The only thing Apple Maps excels at is the graphics.
 
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Speed Limit editing; Need a better way of reporting incorrect speed limits. I drive in several areas where Apple Maps says it is 40mph, but it is 20mph, or 30mph, and I have no way of correcting it. Waze in the same location shows the correct 20mph speed limit, so does Google Maps.

Apple Maps is dangerous for reporting HUGELY incorrect speed limits.
 
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johnnytravels said:
This exactly. What Apple Maps really needs is a proper review system.
The should buy the Yelp data to integrate properly into their own system and then allow people to write new reviews in that system.
Without reviews, Maps is only half complete.
And yeah I wanna switch too, but assessing businesses and restaurants is nearly impossible without proper user engagement…
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Honestly they should just work out a deal with Google to integrate their business info (the thing I mostly care about) and reviews.

But I vaguely remember reading something a few months ago about Apple prompting users for reviews in Maps 🤔
 
Still waiting on Look Around (introduced 2019) to be everywhere instead of just SF etc.
And still waiting on the high detail maps (introduced 2021) to be everywhere instead of just SF etc.

Anymore, I find it hard to get pumped about new feature announcements for Apple Maps because their recent track record is to announce at WWDC and then never deliver. Why not announce a feature when it is ready to use in 90% of the US (or whatever region they think is priority) at day one?
 
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iObama said:
Look Around was launched a while ago (iOS 13, as a matter of fact! lol). Definitely not as pervasive as Street View yet, but I use it quite frequently in the Bay Area.
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Same for me in Toronto. I use Look Around first and only go to Street View if the Look Around view has an issue, such as a tree blocking something I want to look at closer.

I'll go to google maps if I don't like the Apple Maps route.
 
Born Again said:
Not yet but that’s part of the reason why the government has a legitimate reason to sue Apple.
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Ive just done some investigating into it and it appears it’s not even on their roadmap, according to Waze.

I can’t see wher App,e have blocked them from using it.
 
Rodomiro said:
I know this forum is US based... been said that, Apple Maps outside North America/Europe falls behind Waze and Google Maps in everything, traffic, public transportation, bike routes, etc.

The only thing Apple Maps excels at is the graphics.
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I didn’t have any issues with maps In Sydney
jarman92 said:
Honestly they should just work out a deal with Google to integrate their business info (the thing I mostly care about) and reviews.

But I vaguely remember reading something a few months ago about Apple prompting users for reviews in Maps 🤔
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Please no. Keep Google malware out of my phone
 
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MacRumors said:


Apple may be planning to add support for "custom routes" in Apple Maps in iOS 18, according to code reviewed by MacRumors.

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Apple Maps does not currently offer a way to input self-selected routes, with Maps users limited to Apple's pre-selected options, but that may change in iOS 18. Apple has pushed an iOS 18 file to its maps back-end labeled "CustomRouteCreation." While not much is revealed by the file except for the name, it does mention that this upcoming feature will be limited to the United States at launch.

Custom routes would allow users to set what specific roads they want to travel down, whether for scenic purposes or for the familiarity of a route. Route options beyond the default have been a highly requested Apple Maps feature for several years now, and other services like Google Maps allow users to create custom routes on a computer and then view them on an iOS device.

iOS 18 will be introduced at the Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, June 10. For more details about the update, check out our iOS 18 roundup.

(Thanks, Nicolás!)

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About damn time
 
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