If used strictly to get from point A to point B it’s fine. But if you want to add stops it’s just unintuitive. You can make a list of say, restaurants or shops but when you click on a location it takes you right there so you have no idea how far it is from other places on your list. Which is fine if you know the area but when you’re new to a place it’s a headache of zooming in, zooming out and memorizing some landmark to create a bearing of where all the places you want to go are. The only way to make places you want to visit stay visible on the map overview is to add every single one to your favorites -which is what I will end up doing because as it is the list-making function is more of a headache than useful. It’s no fun driving away from a town then looking at a list and thinking “oh shoot I was right there and I didn’t check this place out”… which leads to these new annoying “Editor’s Picks” god forbid I should be able to easily see my own recommendations pop up when I’m traveling or outside my living area but now I get Apple spam I have to scroll past just to get to my saved places. I spent an hour tonight trying to get rid of it but apparently nothing works so now I’m stuck with these Ads on this $1200 phone that I already paid for in cash with my $10 terabyte of iCloud data that I also pay for every month. If Apple is going to include these ads (ok -“recommendations”) in all their native apps they should offer a discount version of the phone (think kindle). I didn’t pay full price to get an ad-box.

Why on earth, when I use all Apple products, always use Apple Maps for location purposes, directions et al, do not even have the Google App on my screen(s)…..do I always, always get the Google map when using my location to pinpoint the nearest location (to MY location, usually my home). And I cannot change this! Example: just now I received an email from a local store I always use, alerting me to a sale going on. I then clicked on the sale details to see what I needed to order. First of all, the store popped up with a location in a different state. This should not happen. I have my settings set up so that they KNOW where I am typing from. And it’s the Google Map that comes up. I mutter to myself, and change my location to where I actually am typing from. That works and my store comes up. But the /google map remains firmly on my screen, whether online or offline, and my Apple map will not replace the Google one, which I do not like for many reasons. When I am traveling, I usually start using my Contact list. I select the place I am going to, scroll to the address, which has a little map next to it, and I click on it and up pops my beloved Apple Map with complete, accurate directions to my desired destination. What’s the problem here? What am I missing? It is so frustrating not to mention a complete waste of my valuable time! Can you please give me a clue? *This just should not happen.* I thank you in advance for your help. (This is the first and only review I have ever written.)

I love Apple Maps, and far prefer it to Google Maps or (ugh) Waze. However, there’s one issue that has bugged me for years. When driving, some of the most important information I need is displayed in the top bar, including my next turn, distance to that turn, and what lane I need to be in. However, if I get some sort of alert from another app, such as a text message or email, the banner notification covers that top bar, hiding all the information I need to see. Sometimes these banners disappear after a few seconds, but most often they stay, covering the top bar, until I manually swipe it off, which can be dangerous when you’re barreling down the freeway. And yes, I use Driving Focus to cut down on some of those banners, but occasionally I’ll still get a text from someone on my Allowed list. Also, I use a Continuous Glucose Monitor; there’s no way to selectively limit the banners and still alert me if my blood sugar is out of range. Having those banner notifications be able to display is a safety issue, but so is their obtrusiveness to the Maps UI. The way I wish it would work is, rather than the banners covering the top bar, they push everything down, cutting into the map graphics a bit. This would allow you to see all the information and still allow alerts without impacting the UI in any major way. To be fair, this is an issue with all map products on the iPhone, but with Apple Maps, you have the ability to make the changes needed. If implemented, this change would make another improvement over the competitors.

Well. I’ve used this for like 10 years, and I didn’t know that there was a setting that was turned on for automatic updates, which is fine, I didn’t see it. So I turned it off. The app had already updated by itself because when I plugged my phone in to charge, the phone turned on by itself and connected to WiFi (naturally, as IPhones do). So when I went to see why I couldn’t look at food times, it was because my “Location Services” were off. The button for the “Location Services” at the top of the screen has now turned blue. It changed while I watched it. It was black before. Just regular text, and then it was a blue bar. There was a text box that popped up and only gave me the options of keeping my “Location Services” off, or turning them on through settings. Fine. I tried using “Offline Maps,” but that doesn’t work. So I went into settings to go turn on my “Location Services,” however, they were already turned on. My settings were set to use “Location Services,” “While Using” the application. This didn’t make sense. I should have “Location Services” on. I went to go change the settings to “Always On” because I thought this might help. I cannot. My button for the “Location Services” settings have been greyed out and I cannot click on them to change anything. I am unable to use my buttons to change my settings from on to even more accurate and on, and it will not let me. I have no navigation now and I guess no Taco Bell :,) Wai