Apple Maps 4+

I keep giving Maps a try, hoping it will be better, but once again it falls short. For some reason my car’s lane departure system can tell when my car is within inches of the center line, but Maps sometimes thinks I am on a freeway, when in reality I am 30 yards away on the service road. Unreal!

Map’s integration with Apple Carplay is mystifying. I’d say 50% of the time, if I search for a location on my car’s Carplay screen, and start navigating from there, it wigs out, spinning around like it’s lost, telling me to follow the route. If I cancel and initiate the same destination from my phone, it doesn’t do that. This has happened with multiple vehicles and iPhones.

Dear Apple, if you’re going to produce such a bad app, at least let us change the default app for navigation on the iPhone. At no point has Maps been in the top spot, or the top two spots for that matter. There is no shame in decommissioning it to focus on something else that needs improvement. You are doing yourselves no favors by associating your name with such a subpar product. But hey, the new AI driven voice that fixes none of these issues and sounds somewhat disinterested, is what matters. Glad you’re focusing on what’s the least important.

Apple Maps is, without a doubt, one of the best navigation tools available today. It offers a range of incredible features that make getting from one place to another both simple and efficient. One of the standout features is its ability to display speed limits, helping drivers stay aware and safe on the road. Additionally, it provides real-time alerts for important details like the location of police officers or traffic jams, giving users the opportunity to adjust their driving accordingly. What makes it even more impressive is that Apple Maps doesn’t just notify you about traffic jams—it actively tries to reroute you to avoid them, ensuring you reach your destination as quickly as possible. By automatically offering the fastest route and allowing users to customize their journey by avoiding highways or tolls, Apple Maps helps save both time and money. It also excels in lane guidance, clearly showing which lane you should be in to avoid missing an exit or turn. This feature, combined with its visual cues on the screen, ensures you don’t even have to look at the map while driving, as the directions are seamlessly displayed for easy access. All of these features come together to make Apple Maps not just a good navigation app, but an exceptional one, surpassing other maps in terms of usability, accuracy, and user-friendly design. For all these reasons, Apple Maps truly stands out as a superior choice for navigation.

In addition to what I already wrote, following this, I have a new complaint that they are trying to force their sexual stuff and gender stuff into my map app, but all I want is a drive-through and you’re trying to offer me sexual gender locations. Sad to say it, but like all Apple goods and services, the quality is going down while they simultaneously attempt to charge us a membership fee, just to be able to use our property which we have already purchased. Previously, I could search a keyword and it would try to present me with businesses within 20 miles of my location containing those keywords. However, it just forces me to a random business that’s not nearby, that has the keyword, but it might be in another state across the country, and I’m not allowed to simply search for every business in my area that might have that keyword. So what’s the point of maps anymore? I’m not able to search for businesses nearby which give certain services. The map cannot possibly know what I want. It has to give me the list of everything which matches my search criteria and let me decide what I’m looking for. It can’t possibly pick a random store and tell me this is where I have to go and then not allow me to have any other results show up in the search. There’s multiple businesses which have my keyword nationwide, and probably in my local area, but it’s forcing me only look at one store, and one store only. What can possibly justify this?