Apple Maps Gradually Winning Over Google Maps Users, Report Suggests
Apple Maps Gradually Winning Over Google Maps Users, Report Suggests
iPhone users are increasingly finding reasons to choose Apple Maps over Google Maps, with some customers commending its clear public transport...
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.
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.
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.
I prefer it in most cases. I still will spot check it against Google for POI data, but I find the map easier to use, the transmit more accurate, and the integration with the phone better.
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.
Still not having cycling directions in Amsterdam is pretty unforgivable, for me
Yeah Google Maps does alt transit mapping very well. Using it for ski slope mapping blew my mind when that launched.
You can use one app for car navigation and another for cycling. I am positive that Apple will add cycling navigation in the future.
It’s not better. But I use it. Why? Google maps changes my route without asking me, over and over.
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.
It’s fine where it’s available, but having come back from Central America it sure seems like Apple has no plans to move in there.
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.
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.
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
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!
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.