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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 it’s fine, it’s there by default, and it doesn’t send my precise location to Google.
That’s how I feel as well. I do my best to use it out of principle to stay away from Google services the best I can. My one biggest complaint is that when you’re navigating, Apple Maps takes over your lock screen. I think that’s getting changed in the next iOS release however.
I don’t recall it taking over my Lock Screen, but Apple Maps does lock you out of any interaction with the app while navigating. That can be really frustrating when I’m riding as passenger and want to look up some potential stops en route. Have to cancel my destination just to look at anything else.
While in “GO” mode your lock screen will be the maps navigation.
Also, by clicking the bottom thing (where you can press end route) and pressing “Add Stop” you can look up potential stops en route.
- argv_minus_one ( @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year ago
Does it not send your precise location to Apple?
The way that GPS works, it does not have to.
Your phone just receives satellite signals and them triangulates its location. But to be fair, find my phone is one on just about everyone’s device. Additionally, google still knows exactly where you are.
- argv_minus_one ( @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year ago
I didn’t say a map can’t work without sending precise location data to Apple. I’m just skeptical that Apple would leave valuable data on the table and not collect it.
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
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.
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.
Apple maps has much better turn by turn guidance (“Turn left at the next light” vs “Turn left in 1823 feet”) and the UI is very clean.
I still find I trust Google more for traffic data and aggressive routing (especially waze).
That being said its AMAZING how many road closures and turn restrictions google still doesn’t have, even in large cities. It will constantly tell me to turn left where it is no longer allowed, and these changes were made over a year ago in a major US city where they have massive offices. Wild.
I’d say the days of Google dominance in car navigation are ending
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.
It’s not better. But I use it. Why? Google maps changes my route without asking me, over and over.
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.
Aside from the fact that at launch, my country wasn’t even on Apple Maps. But I’ve been using it steadily for a number of years, and in the beginning I would double check with Google maps to “make sure”. Nowadays I don’t give it a second thought. Walking, driving or public transport it does not let me down. I’ve actually driven across 5 countries using Apple Maps and it has consistently given me good directions.
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 do not use navigation apps that much since the pandemic and working from home. I guess I am older, married, and just going out less.
But I do like having offline maps available. As soon as the next iOS version comes out, I will be dropping google maps.
I would say that 95% of my phone mapping is done with Apple Maps, and has been for as long as it’s been available to me. You get people complaining that the experience isn’t as good as Google’s, but without using the app, how can improvements be noted?
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.
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.