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PSA: Apple Maps Has Been Down Several Hours, Directions and Search Not Working [Update: Resolved]
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Ha, I tried using it with Carplay before a 3 hour drive. I couldn't get it to work and figured it was a problem with iOS 12 beta... Well, iOS 12 beta 1 vindicated!
I still can’t get directions for when I am sharing locations on imessage. It shows where my friend is and that works but directions to his location doesn’t work.
So I have to ask, in this day and age of being in the 'cloud', how is it that outages still happen? I work with a company that uses AWS and when that goes down, that company goes down also. I thought the idea was that if a server/service went down, there was always another in its place to take over? Like the cloud servers are in a big spider web of sorts, if you take out one link, the other links will take up the load to a same (but different) server, so the service doesn't go down?
I heavily use Apple maps with Apple CarPlay, I was really frustrated today when it was down! Looking forward to iOS 12 being able to use the likes of google maps via CarPlay incase this situation arises again.
I'd use Apple Maps a helluva lot more if they had better traffic measurements than Google. As much as I hate the Google, they're lot better at telling me when traffic is snarled than Apple are...
The biggest question is who uses Apple maps to even know when its down
Well hopefully this didn't cause to much of an inconvenience to you and the dozen or so other people who still use Apple Maps.
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I think that meant that you drove into a lake. Darn Apple Maps giving the wrong directions and causing someone to drive off a bridge again! Hopefully you managed to stay dry.
I was forced to go back to google Maps after Apple started doing weird things like making me go north than go roundabout way back south to the Airport in Minneapolis rather then go straight south, and traffic was infact worse in that route so it wasn't even trying to bypass traffic. To top it off it gave wrong exit numbers in down town twice. Also Google is better at telling which lane to be in a head of time when multiple turns are involved. Adiitionally when road work springs up, Google usually seems to be updated to the fact earlier, giving reroutes. Having said that Apple Maps is still much better from where it was even a year back but not yet good enough but will get there hopefully.
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It really sucked as I have my calendar appointments propogate automatically with addresses, and none of it showed up and I had to copy and paste the address to drive there.
Transit directions I use Valley Metro’s app as it’s real time arrival rather than just a schedule that they’re never on time for anyway. I was hoping Apple Maps did real time arrival like the transit agency app but alas no.
Transit directions I use Valley Metro’s app as it’s real time arrival rather than just a schedule that they’re never on time for anyway. I was hoping Apple Maps did real time arrival like the transit agency app but alas no.
Lots of people?
https://9to5mac.com/2015/12/07/apple-maps-usage-numbers/
As of end 2015, maps was used about thrice as often as google maps.
Never doubt the power of the preinstalled default.
I find Apple maps superior to Google maps as it always gets me there and asks to reroute me if it finds a quicker route.
I just wish Apple would stick to being a tech company instead of politicising everything it does. If only there was a third platform I would switch to that, maybe a Chinese company will step up to the task in the future.
I just wish Apple would stick to being a tech company instead of politicising everything it does. If only there was a third platform I would switch to that, maybe a Chinese company will step up to the task in the future.