Apple Maps: 10 Essential Tips & Tricks You MUST Know!

Our list of essential tips and tricks for Apple Maps. These features will make your navigation experience even better!
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[@FoxxFire]

Uhhh let you know my thoughts? Well, I think this is the most useful video I've watched in at least three months, maybe longer. I'm surprised how much I did not know about Apple Maps, particularly considering that I use it at least twice a day, every day. Now I feel like I need to play around with the available features on Maps on CarPlay, because that's really where I use it most.

[@ADPeguero]

Apple Maps has grown so much. I really enjoy it.

[@Tailsnpaws]

Great information. I have to agree that Apple Maps has excelled in accuracy of directions and the options offered while traveling. We have used Google maps for years in spite of errors that we incurred. Now we use Apple Maps exclusively and trust it more than we ever did with Google or Waze. Thank you for an honest review.

[@nathanaelarias8276]

1) 0:14 double tap to zoom in & out 2) 0:42 changing the style of your map 3) 1:26 look around 4) 2:00 detailed weather 5) 2:15 directions (walking, cycling etc.) 6) 3:31 marking your location 7) 3:58 route options (add stop, report incident, share eta) 8) 4:37 offline maps (requires iOS 17) 9) 5:36 guides 10) 6:13 indoor mapping

[@Sand_29]

Respect to bro for doing this 🫡

[@remyeid8471]

I prefer the way apple maps gives directions vs google maps. For instance Apple maps say: on the next light turn right whereas google maps say: in 100m turn right.

[@integspec]

Spot on, that's my favourite feature and why I use Apple Maps too!

[@ashleyxlira]

Me as well! I do NOT miss Google lady at all!

[@alphabanks]

I was a long time user of Google Maps I updated the radio in my car which gave me access to car play I was amazed at how precise Apple Maps is.

[@NinaDumlao]

Great tips! Google maps user here. Now, I’ll give Apple Maps a try. Thanks for sharing!

[@dbeskan]

Love apple Maps! Pulled me in when it told me to turn at "at the next light" thanks for your video. Love picking up or reinforcing usage tips! 🗺️

[@mustang607]

Off-line Apple maps in iOS 17 are great! You can even use them with CarPlay while driving in areas with terrible to no cell phone coverage.

[@darrenjoe674]

Apple Maps all the way. Never knew about the future time and date to look at routing. Nice work.

[@georgee3401]

Excellent tutorial. I will probably use Apple Maps more than Google Maps as features continue to improve. Many thanks!

[@VALDEPENAS1]

Thank you so much great details .

[@JohnWaid6Plus]

Thanks I use Apple Maps now only. Appreciate the tips

[@revdocrandy]

Good stuff. I have always preferred Apple Maps & I’m glad to see that it continues to improve. Didn’t know about the double-tap to zoom. And I wasn’t sure the best way to mark my location. Love it. Thanks!

[@javtimestwo]

Thank you for this terrific video. I use Apple Maps exclusively on my iPhone and feel the app has made tremendous improvements the last 18 months or more. You just earned a new subscriber 👏🏽

[@GT-ho6co]

Zooming is a lot easier for me using pinch in or out with two fingers. The double tap method works but often adds a dropped pin that I have to delete. Some good tips in the video though and well described and presented.

[@neptunexo_]

I use Apple Maps and thanks for the guide

[@lorrainesclark]

Best video I’ve viewed in a long time. Thanks

[@ddheathbar]

I’ve used Apple Maps for several years and I agree with your opinion that it has improved greatly.

[@gregregor9689]

Alright, 49 seconds in and I already learned something new. I’ve used iPhones since the 3GS was announced, so I’m not exactly new to iPhones, but the map zooming thing one handed….. game changer. I’m in disbelief I never heard about this sooner. I’m using a refurbished 64gb XR, and that still worked. It’s so simple, but I wish I would’ve know sooner. Would’ve saved me a lot of annoyance.

[@juliewalker8450]

This was a great video full of useful tips for features I was unaware of. Thank you. Do you possibly know of a way to alphabetize my guides inside the maps app? I’ve searched and searched with no success, and it drives me nuts that you can only view the my guides list in order of the last one viewed. Any help would be much appreciated.

[@richardbulot2785]

I use Apple Maps as my car has Apple car play. I find it very accurate and useful.

[@spunkymonkie]

I love the graphics on Apple Maps, and it looks great in Car Play. However they need to sort out the speed camera alerts, some are missing and often they app alerts you at the wrong time, often after you have passed the camera.

[@dannyloopeker4423]

I am going to use it more now because bike options is finally there for the Netherlands 😊

[@progresswalker7737]

I followed you very well in this video but I don’t understand how to get to indoor mapping

[@snowbike8032]

Excellent video... please tell your viewer how to get to your starting screen. It looks nothing like mine on an Iphone 15. My maps background is black and I'm not sure how to change it to white. Thank you

[@CC-gv2qo]

This was very helpful. I learned a lot . I was looking for an answer to why I was hearing a chime while I was using apple maps. Was it because I was talking on the phone thru my bluetooth or was the chime signaling something else?

[@craigdaly5111]

Apple Maps for me personally so thanks for the tips very helpful 👍

[@jko0526]

Great video! I am new to Apple Maps so this was helpful.

[@integspec]

Very helpful, thank you!

[@jeffsmith-ze6wb]

This was really helpful THANKS!!!

[@KingTechHD]

I alternate between Google & Apple Maps. Apple has saved the day on my last road trips. Google had us taking A LOT of dirt roads.

[@dustnspace]

Can you see your places saved in guides without being in the guide like you can on google maps? I like that a lot, because then you know if you've saved something without having to search your guides. Also can you add notes -like why you saved it -like "try the desert at this restaurant" like you can on Google maps -another great feature there. ? I'd prefer to have lists personally like Google maps to save all things in a city I may visit with notes, but not necessarily for one road trip I may take like guides.

[@glutrino]

In general I prefer and my default is Apple maps. However, there are still a few times when traveling where Google Maps has better coverage but it’s been a while since I have had to switch to Google Maps. 😊

[@StrongLikeWater612]

Great video!

[@Savan_Triveda]

I used GoogleMaps until now. But I’m traveling in Japan now and Apple Maps does a great job. I still have GM on the phone but slowly slowly I transit to Apple Maps. One thing I would like to have is save the route.

[@yossachesed]

now i want to use and explore apple maps instead of g.maps very interesting details

[@alexiszee5770]

Michael as per usual a fantastic video I use Apple Maps all the. time😀

[@WhittyPics]

How did you get to that Mall map?

[@wilfriedbergmann4778]

Informative! I’m in Vienna, Austria: level Info not available in 4 different of the biggest malls in the capital. Using mainly Google maps and Apple Maps for some details, where they show more detail.

[@ckkhoo818]

Had problems getting to a meeting point in the countryside. The only one in our group who got to the carpark used Apple Maps. Have switched to Apple Maps since. Another time, notified Apple of an error on street address. It was acknowledged and rectified within a few days.

[@coach_pete]

How do we access indoor maps? You showed how they work, but how do we access them?

[@peter572]

Is there a way to change part of a route shown by Apple maps during navigation? Like dragging a highlighted route onto another road? Adding a stop does not work for me, because I don't know the exact location of stops.

[@l...]

How to get in navigate house/ work screen rather get direction screen from one touch or voice command

[@karenclarke5684]

Thank you for a great video. How do I flip location and destination on Apple Maps? I like to see traffic in both directions. You can do this in google maps? Thank you

[@maikaimakena9424]

How many guides can you create and how many optimizations for route distance can you do. I want to replace Road Warrior with Apple Maps and drive a route of locations that has the most optimal distance please 🙏🏻 reply back to this so I see the response

[@Drkbadger7719]

Great video

[@markmarco2880]

I’m on a brand new iPad mini, using Apple Maps for 1st time, and so far the thing is stuck on off-line maps, no button to just get started. On the road, and frustrated. I want a full tutorial. Please. One that starts right at the beginning. And, give clarity when you push a button or Icon, so we can easily know where or how to make that button appear. Thanks for doing this, much appreciated.

[@Kjk-lb1ox]

Does Apple Maps have the option to show similar etas while I’m on a route?

[@michaelschafer5493]

Thanks. is there any way to save a route? it would be so helpful when planning a driving trip.

[@cengelha65]

i use apple maps and can't seem to get the entire screen just to be navigation? the top 1/4 portion shows direction and the bottom 1/4 show arrival time - how can i view full page?

[@jackie6013]

I use maps a lot in real estate - does anyone know how to make it set to most use of highways.....ive been off roading a bit too much

[@thomastevis8655]

Awesome videos sorry im soo late

[@jamiltaha77]

But the speed limit & actual speed can't show as Google map

[@Angloitalian]

At 2:15 how do you get the Directions screen to pop up so suddenly? The magic eludes me....

[@Transporter81]

When I share my guides with someone via messages. How do they view my guides? They tell me it just opens safari.

[@lilian7384]

I just use Apple Maps, thanks

[@MyDogSteppedOnaBeee]

Thanks for the review! I would like to see apple have the option to keep it in dark or light mode whatever mode your phone is in like google maps. You have the option on MacOS to do this why not on the iPhone? I don't care for the dark map when I have my phone in dark mode 😑 Man those offline maps are bigger in size than I expected can't you just take screenshots of different areas zoomed in and out just and idea and look at them later? Seems like a storage hog. I don't use apple maps for driving directions anymore it used to get me lost or take me to the wrong place idk know if it's improved better now. I'll have to test it out and see.

[@CreachterZ]

Maybe I missed it…. How can I tell maps to quit bugging me about the route on a road trip where I exit for gas? A route pause? I don’t want to try to include those incidental stops as planned.

[@RandomBogey]

The double tap/slide to zoom is a feature I’ve grown accustomed to in maps apps. But, using various maps apps for a variety of things, what I find kind of annoying is that while sliding up in Apple Maps and Nike Run Club (uses Apple Maps) zooms in on the map, that same double tap/sliding up gesture in Google Earth (probably Google Maps too) and Footpath (which uses Google) zooms out on the map, so I can never remember which is which and, like the USB debacle, I can never seem to get it right the first time. Obviously, not a huge thing, but I wish it was a little more standardized across iOS.

[@orangeblue789]

cant find "look around"

[@BlaqViper]

How often is the satellite data updated? On Maps an area across from my home in Philadelphia is showing as an empty lot, where in reality an apartment complex has been built for almost two years.

[@alhit007]

It’s most definitely a better improvement from what it originally started with but and it’s a big but in apple car play the satellite mode doesn’t work 😢

[@user-re2fq5fj7c]

Good morning i use apple maps because it tells you to go past this light turn at the next light

[@adrianlucero2880]

The thing I don’t like about Apple Maps is when I have directions on it doesn’t allow for satellite view. Is there a way to change that?

[@ridged8]

Needs a reverse directions feature badly! Ability to add more than 13 stops to a route also!

[@babeyoulove1883]

I've been giving Apple Maps a shot for directions, and honestly, it's way better for me. The only hiccup with Apple Maps is that when you're searching for new places, it doesn't have as much info as Google. The reviews and pictures are also from external sources. But when it comes to giving me directions, Apple Maps beats everything else, hands down.

[@karenmargretheholmenlund4610]

Over sæt dansk Danmark

[@karenmargretheholmenlund4610]

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[@rogeriogomesosorio4755]

Great video. I like Apple Maps but, most of the times I’m not using it and the reason is simple; when I’m driving, most of the times I don’t need directions, but I do still want to be alerted to different information, like police radar, accidents, and so on… well, in Apple Maps you only have this information if you are active navigating somewhere which, as I said, I don’t always need. But, if I use Waze, I can get all this information even when I’m not navigating anywhere. It’s really a drawback about Apple Maps. Finally, I drive an EV car and, as at right now, the app is not that good to plan a trip with an EV car.

[@neilevenden3481]

I use both. Depends on how I'm feeling.

[@prafullsonekar7763]

No 2 wheeler option

[@WanderingNature]

How can a Person delete a picture they Rated a business with?

[@tomhufnagel6812]

Once I enter my destination I'm not satisfied with the route. I want to change the route even if it's two minutes slower. How is this done?

[@waffles1ca]

Great information, thanks for the video. I usually use google maps to figure out where I’d like to go (day trip outings) but use Apple Maps in the car for navigation, I’m grateful to see a hint as to how I may plan a day trip in advance ( hopefully I can save it) by adding stops, my last day trip had 7 stops. Not knowing how to use maps properly I would get to my 3 rd stop the. Navigate to my 4th and so on clumsy.

[@Ocean-zj6vh]

Great info!! BTW the downloaded maps is permanent? Unlike android it's only for 14days only

[@mapsandnavigation433]

Not true

[@FUNKYTUNEZ714]

I wish Apple Maps would also show speed off streets when I’m driven …so I won’t be goin to fast 💨

[@dolvin]

It’s already there. You can enable it from Settings > Maps > Driving > Speed Limit

[@user-po3my4kk6z]

Verizon best coverage

[@theobserver3753]

If you only have one hand?

[@contactusece7769]

The thing I don’t like is that it does not have real time speed

[@maikaimakena9424]

How do you permanently delete a guide location sometimes I delete them and it still show up.

[@virgiliojuarez]

Google Maps

[@dkr5281960]

Apple

[@TheFlush1980]

Unfortunately apple maps is completely useless for me. My main transportation is my bicycle, but there are still no cycling routes in apple maps here in the netherlands. Rendering the app useless for me.

[@richie6921]

Google maps keeps telling me Ive arrived when I'm nowhere near the place. WTF. And even though I downloaded maps for google maps to use offline it wont let me plot a route offline, so whats the point. Apple maps is so much better. If every delivery driver used Apple instead of Google maps things would be alot better

[@karenmargretheholmenlund4610]

Dansk Danmark

[@karenmargretheholmenlund4610]

Danmark dansk

[@tonyo.4226]

I used to love Apple Maps. But they are extremely slow when updating new roads and their map information. Especially new developments!! I tried submitting to apple. Never heard anything. Submitted to Google Maps. They added my information within a few days!! Looking at Apple Maps in this development I’m in shows only trees and some dirt trails. 😔

[@spagoo69]

I’ve submitted a few new streets or business names to Apple and they’ve taking care of it. Same with Google.

[@z3ro7o]

i feel like in the EU apple maps is not as good as google maps...

[@naylauddin1177]

Apple Map doesn’t work in my country (Bangladesh) it can’t even recognize most of the landmarks hence I prefer google maps over it

[@karenmargretheholmenlund4610]

Dansk

[@flossey100]

✅💖💖💖🇦🇺

[@kanzulfakhri]

Indonesia problem apple maps 😂

[@mrnino5086]

Brother who even uses Apple Maps. Share google map tips!

[@victuringan1429]

Like every Apple user

[@andreit460]

@@victuringan1429but not every country has good apple maps data that s why iphone users don t really use apple maps

[@maikaimakena9424]

I love Apple Maps because Apple lets you make your app your own by making custom labels 🏷️ which I absolutely love. And now with offline Maps google Maps is gonna be deleted off my phone 📱 @apple