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According to the Wall Street Journal, iPhone users are increasingly finding reasons to choose Apple Maps over Google Maps, with some customers commending its clear public transport directions and visually appealing design.
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It’s not better. But I use it. Why? Google maps changes my route without asking me, over and over.
It has become my “dad time” Sunday morning activity to submit corrections to Apple Maps in my area. The area where I live was recently designated a national park so we receive a ton of tourists and this is like my little way of helping
The only Google app I use is YouTube. I switched to iOS to stop all that spying and tracking to sell my data to anyone.
Ever heard of uYouPlusExtra?
No what is that?
EDIT. Ok found the GitHub. The installation looks a little bit wonky. What method did you use?
I did both. First I did TrollStore because my iPhone happened to be on 15.0.1 . But because that was an iPhone 7 that had the baseband issue it broke last year when their warranty expired. If you’re on 15.0.1 then use TrollStore. But if you’re pass that, then use AltStore.
Yeah I prefer it now too, even here in The Netherlands. I like the interface better and the native CarPlay integration is a huge plus, especially because it works with both my car screens.
There is however still a lot of room for improvement, for example, it doesn’t clearly show how much time you lose in a traffic jam when looking on the zoomed out 2d view (which is what I use most). And I would love to see the feature TomTom used to show my average speed in a speed controlled zone.
I hate when Google is like “here is every thing you did last month” it’s a reminder wow I need to get this thing off my phone.
I switched to Apple Maps because Google Maps lies too much and gives worse directions.
I decided to start walking to one of my jobs. I didn’t know the way walking since I always took the train. Google told me it would take about 45 minutes. It took nearly an hour, and Google had me take all these back roads I would never be able to remember.
The next week, I tried Apple Maps. It told me it would take 55 minutes, and gave me this very clear route that was easy to remember. And it did little things, like have covered roads be a slightly different color than regular roads.
I’m not sure how it is for driving, but for walking directions, Apple Maps is so much better.
Now if only Maps would remember to always navigate to my custom pin location for work rather than 50% of the time taking me to the physical address.
You set the work location in your profile in contacts.
Yes I have my profile set correctly as the physical address. But my parking garage is about a half block away and so I manually adjusted the pin to the garage location. Sometimes Apple Maps will correctly automatically route me to the pin. But some of the time it decides to route me to the physical address. It’s not a huge deal because of the route is basically the same but I don’t understand why it doesn’t just work. Haha
Hmm, I haven’t experienced that but I have experienced Apple Maps trying to take me through employee-only doors instead of the parking lot.
Interesting. I do that for my home address (the entrance to the underground carpark is on a different street to the actual address), with a saved “Home Carpark” location and it always navigates me there when I choose to navigate Home in CarPlay.
I can’t believe I never thought about naming it a little different so I’ll try that. Thanks!
I’d switch from Waze in a heartbeat if Apple added the ability to show the current speed and speed limit of the street/road I’m on.
Yeah, I’d also like a feature of current speed. Apple Maps already has speed limits though.
I like Apple Maps more too, though I still use Google Maps in some situations.
One of my biggest “dealbreakers” is that if you copy an address from Google it actually copies a giant google.com?etc=etc,etc=etc link, but Apple Maps copies the actual plaintext address.
I feel like the bit that gets missed in these conversations is how terrible Waze has become in the last few years. The UI has always been awful, but it’s started just straight up not working any more. Each release seems to introduce new bugs.
I can’t remember the last time I had an “oh shit, it saved me 20 minutes” moment with it. More often than not it seems like it’s just using me as an experiment to try out increasingly insane new routes for no benefit (I know it has to send a certain portion of its users on crazy routes to try them out, but it seems like it’s always me).
The only reason is to get reports of speed cameras, but Apple Maps has started doing that now and seems to be a bit less insane when it comes to routing.
Apple maps is better for me in larger cities for walking directions or for finding local restaurants and shops. I still prefer google maps for driving.
It’s not “better.” But it’s fine, it’s there by default, and it doesn’t send my precise location to Google.
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One thing that I absolutely hate about Apple Maps: trying to navigate home after navigating out somewhere. I swear I’ve got to close like 5 layers of garbage context left over from navigating to the first place. What the hell is the point of having a favorite if it’s gonna be hidden when I try to use it?
If I’m trying to navigate home, it’s because I don’t know the best way and I almost certainly used navigation to get where I currently am. So I have this issue almost every single time I use it.
I’m not sure what you mean, did you set your home location in your profile in contacts? That is also an angle of criticism but it exists. For locations in your profile it will always put them in front of everything else.
I think there’s typically one more step than what I just replicated from home, but this is what I just did:
- Open maps -> search target
- Click View locations -> click a location
- Click “go”
My issue after arriving and then going to navigate home:
- Open maps -> click “end navigation”
- Close listing of target locations
- Close search results for target
- <insert other random crap here if I ended up browsing stuff before navigating earlier>
- Finally, back to the home default maps screen, where I can click “home”
@red__raven I haven’t used Google Maps in a long time. What really won me over several years ago was Apple Maps would say something like “Go past this light and then at the next one, turn right”. Does google do this now?
It does not
This is my favorite feature over Google Maps, soooo much easier to make your next turn instead of looking for street names while you are trying to drive.
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