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PSA: Apple Maps Has Been Down Several Hours, Directions and Search Not Working [Update: Resolved]
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Apple in general has a lot of trouble synchronizing and keeping data refreshed. It has gotten better but often their software is annoying and counter productive. Not having essential information when you need it makes a product fundamentally unreliable. Not having essential information when you expect to have it makes the software that is supposed to make life easier make life harder.
It still doesn’t compare to the vast coverage, features and reliability of google maps... I tried to give Apple maps another go a few months ago and it just doesn’t have all the features google does. I doubt it will ever be up to google’s standard :/
Apple has way to much integration features and time to be dropping maps. It is not going anywhere. There are so many apps an integration ties with Apple maps on my phone that I would care. I find apple maps to be excellent. I am an avid user of both WAZE and apple maps. My commute is 2 hours each way to work and home and travel often. Apple maps is excellent and nothing like its earlier predecessor, this is old and inaccurate news. Ignorance is bliss, but Apple Maps is an excellent product!
Often for fun I run Apple maps and Waze at the same time and they perform almost exactly the same. Sometimes Apple maps is better sometimes Waze it totally whacked and other times it is the opposite. A totally 50/50 toss up in my extensive experience.
Announce Apple Maps is down, so MR folks go try it anyways, further hammering their server, compounding the issue.
Exactly. I've been a solely and Apple Maps user for over a year and have used it in so many different states with no issues. San Fran, San Diego, LA, New Orleans, NY, DE, PA, MD, SC and NJ. The interface is much cleaner, traffic is great and it will always reroute me as much as possible. Every now and then I'll pull up Google Maps when the traffic is really heavy to see if it gives me better route. Nope, every single time it's given me the same route as Apple. But then I'm reminded how cluttered and busy GM interface is. Horrible.
Other than Offline Maps, I don't feel I'm missing anything using Apple Maps.
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I have to agree. I've had Google maps try to send me down narrow dirt roads, so lets not pretend that Google Maps is perfect. I've actually had no issues with Apple Maps for CarPlay and definitely like graphics and integration better. It should be noted however, that I'm very good with navigation, and don't use it much.
Yep, down in south florida too. I filed a bugreport with apple before reading this article here.
Can not wait for the update that allows me to use google maps with car play. I used Apple map yesterday to get to a location and it specially routed me PAST the destination for 1 mile only to do a detour and come back. Just ridiculous
It's not about stupidity, but business and ensuring a positive user experience.
You'll be happy to hear that the next major update will allow third-party navigation apps on CarPlay.
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I still prefer Apple Maps for its spoken instructions, but I've observed this exact same issue. Apple Maps sends me down a detour route, whereas Google Maps would get me along a more reasonable route.
Nothing new. It's never worked.
Seriousness though. Tried using it again over the weekend and gave us the worst possible route. At one point it told us to make a right turn then make a U turn. Google maps simply said "turn left".
Seriousness though. Tried using it again over the weekend and gave us the worst possible route. At one point it told us to make a right turn then make a U turn. Google maps simply said "turn left".
If you are attempting to navigate with Apple Maps right now, you may be unable to do so, as the service appears to be experiencing downtime.
"Directions Not Available," the app says, when attempting to search for or navigate to destinations. "Route information is not available at this moment."
The issue appears to be widespread, with many users reporting that Apple Maps is down across the United States, Canada, and other countries. The outage affects all platforms with Apple Maps, including the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and CarPlay.
iPhone, iPad, and Mac users can simply use an alternative such as Google Maps or Waze in the meantime, but CarPlay doesn't currently support third-party mapping apps, something that is changing with iOS 12.
Apple has yet to update its system status page to reflect any issues. We'll update this article if that changes or when the issues are resolved.
Update: Apple has now acknowledged and is "investigating" ongoing issues with Maps Search and Routing & Navigation, according to its system status page. Apple says "all users are affected."
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The amount of juvenile comments about Apple Maps is astounding in here. I use Apple Maps all the time in my area, and even though I do have Google maps as an alternative on my iPhone, I rarely ever use it at all for anything. Apple Maps has been excellent in providing terms of updates with construction, Updated infrastructure, blocked roads, alternative routes, etc. I commend Apple from where Apple Maps first started to where it is today. Complete 180.