Apple Maps thinks my parents’ home is my workplace

[sully54]

My dad is sick so I’ve been frequently going to my parents home to help out and now maps thinks that my parents house is my workplace.

I have no work address set in my contact card, nothing set in Maps either. So it seems it’s made this determination based on…I don’t even know.

And now when I search for “work” in maps, it comes up with my parents address. It also comes up as a suggested work route on CarPlay.

How do I remove this?

 

[Jakimo]

I believe it's set to your identified contact. Label your home as "home" and add your work as "work" and it may just do the trick! I believe Siri can also be told "this is my home/work address"..

 

[kitKAC]

I believe it's set to your identified contact. Label your home as "home" and add your work as "work" and it may just do the trick! I believe Siri can also be told "this is my home/work address"..

Do exactly this. If you tell your device what your Home and Work addresses are, then it doesn't have to guess.

 

[sully54]

I believe it's set to your identified contact. Label your home as "home" and add your work as "work" and it may just do the trick! I believe Siri can also be told "this is my home/work address"..

i only have a home address identified in my contact and maps. I don’t have a work address because I work from home.

I guess my main issue here is that maps is assuming a place I go to during typical work hours is my workplace when it isn’t.

And especially when my parents address is already in my contacts as my parents address.

 

[gwang73]

Try going into Settings -> Privacy & Security -> Location Services -> Significant Locations & Routes and delete your parents address in there. That "should" remove it but it won't stop from iOS adding it back later. You can turn off Significant Locations altogether but that will also disable some other location features like parked car, etc.

 

[Artemiz]

i only have a home address identified in my contact and maps. I don’t have a work address because I work from home.

I guess my main issue here is that maps is assuming a place I go to during typical work hours is my workplace when it isn’t.

And especially when my parents address is already in my contacts as my parents address.

iOS doesn’t verify if the places you’d been to were casual or work-related.
If you’d been spending typical work hours at a certain place away from home consistently, then it’d assume the place to be your new place of work. You can always clear “significant locations” in settings, and it would start over.