I just noticed some very strange and annoying results asking Siri for navigation directions "... to the nearest _____"
for example, when asking Siri to "navigate to the nearest gas station", it always returns results not from my local area (Vancouver) but for a Costco gas station way across the country in Toronto!!
(it helpfully gives the turn-by-turn directions to get there from Vancouver, some 4400km and 1day 16hrs' drive away)
I get similarly frustrating results whether I ask directions to the nearest "library", "bookstore", "coffee shop", "pizza restaurant", etc - all return results from far-away Toronto.
now, I know... some would consider Toronto to be the centre of the universe, but this is a bit ridiculous!!
additional observations
1) if I ask Siri, "where is the nearest ____", or "find me the nearest _____" - it returns the CORRECT local results within Vancouver. No problem there.
2) ONLY if I ask Siri "give me directions to the nearest ____", or "navigate to the nearest ____" does it return the INCORRECT result, always in Toronto
3) in all the cases above, the resulting Maps view always shows my correct location with the pulsing blue dot in Vancouver, so clearly my iOS devices and Maps know my correct location
4) if I go into the Maps app directly and type in the search bar: "nearest ___", Maps will find and show me the correct local result. So Maps itself seems to know where the "nearest ____s" are, but it seems Siri gets confused when asking Maps to navigate to those...
5) I have verified identical result on 3 of our own iOS devices - iPhone 5, iPad Air, iPad mini 2 - all running iOS 9.0.1. I also asked a friend who also lives elsewhere here in Vancouver to do the same Siri queries, and he gets the same identical Toronto results on his iOS devices (also on 9.0.1)
6) I can't say for sure if this is a new problem starting with iOS 9, since I only noticed this problem today, after updating all our devices to iOS 9 last week.
I have Location Services turned on. I've tried a reset in General->Reset->Reset Location & Privacy - but the problem persists. I don't see any other hidden settings that would force Siri to navigate to Toronto as the default result-location, nor do I think there is such a setting. And as I said, clearly the Maps app knows my actual correct location yet ignores navigating to actual nearby results. Anyhow, the fact that my friend who lives elsewhere in town can independently duplicate the identical wrong results on his iPhone and iPad tells me this must be a bug with Siri navigation rather than a problem only on my 3 devices.
has anybody else noticed this problem? perhaps some fellow-Canadian forum members living outside of Toronto could try some of the same "navigate to the nearest___" queries I mentioned above. Could it be that Apple Maps has simply screwed up all nearest-navigation within Canada by defaulting to Toronto results?
btw, does anyone know if there's a place to report Siri problems like this to Apple?
update: I went to a local Apple Store here in Vancouver and tried out the same kind of navigation queries on several new iPhone 6S and 6S Plus units on display. They all return the exact same incorrect results for Toronto! so it's definitely an iOS/Siri problem
for example, when asking Siri to "navigate to the nearest gas station", it always returns results not from my local area (Vancouver) but for a Costco gas station way across the country in Toronto!!
(it helpfully gives the turn-by-turn directions to get there from Vancouver, some 4400km and 1day 16hrs' drive away)
I get similarly frustrating results whether I ask directions to the nearest "library", "bookstore", "coffee shop", "pizza restaurant", etc - all return results from far-away Toronto.
now, I know... some would consider Toronto to be the centre of the universe, but this is a bit ridiculous!!
additional observations
1) if I ask Siri, "where is the nearest ____", or "find me the nearest _____" - it returns the CORRECT local results within Vancouver. No problem there.
2) ONLY if I ask Siri "give me directions to the nearest ____", or "navigate to the nearest ____" does it return the INCORRECT result, always in Toronto
3) in all the cases above, the resulting Maps view always shows my correct location with the pulsing blue dot in Vancouver, so clearly my iOS devices and Maps know my correct location
4) if I go into the Maps app directly and type in the search bar: "nearest ___", Maps will find and show me the correct local result. So Maps itself seems to know where the "nearest ____s" are, but it seems Siri gets confused when asking Maps to navigate to those...
5) I have verified identical result on 3 of our own iOS devices - iPhone 5, iPad Air, iPad mini 2 - all running iOS 9.0.1. I also asked a friend who also lives elsewhere here in Vancouver to do the same Siri queries, and he gets the same identical Toronto results on his iOS devices (also on 9.0.1)
6) I can't say for sure if this is a new problem starting with iOS 9, since I only noticed this problem today, after updating all our devices to iOS 9 last week.
I have Location Services turned on. I've tried a reset in General->Reset->Reset Location & Privacy - but the problem persists. I don't see any other hidden settings that would force Siri to navigate to Toronto as the default result-location, nor do I think there is such a setting. And as I said, clearly the Maps app knows my actual correct location yet ignores navigating to actual nearby results. Anyhow, the fact that my friend who lives elsewhere in town can independently duplicate the identical wrong results on his iPhone and iPad tells me this must be a bug with Siri navigation rather than a problem only on my 3 devices.
has anybody else noticed this problem? perhaps some fellow-Canadian forum members living outside of Toronto could try some of the same "navigate to the nearest___" queries I mentioned above. Could it be that Apple Maps has simply screwed up all nearest-navigation within Canada by defaulting to Toronto results?
btw, does anyone know if there's a place to report Siri problems like this to Apple?
update: I went to a local Apple Store here in Vancouver and tried out the same kind of navigation queries on several new iPhone 6S and 6S Plus units on display. They all return the exact same incorrect results for Toronto! so it's definitely an iOS/Siri problem
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