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Maps

Off the beaten trail.

I have had this happen to me a dozen or so times in the fast few months. Maps takes me off a hwy and directs me to drive through a city street or through a scenic route and put me back on the same hwy again, losing lots of time.

For example, when I was in Quebec, I was taking the hwy 30 bypass around Montreal, I don't know my way around there, so I follow the maps closely. Maps directed me off hwy 30, onto a street that followed along hwy 30 in a 60 km zone with tons of traffic lights and then directs me back onto the hwy. It's bizarre. It did it to me again last night on my way home from Halifax. I am on a divided hwy, It directs me off, I follow a winding road through a few built up and slow areas, and then puts me back on the expressway again.

At first I thought is directing me away from an accident or a serious traffic jam. But it is not. I looked into it. A few times I have been on the phone with my wife as I am driving, and she is checking out why the misdirection and there seems to be no apparent reason. Once she saved me from serious misdirection on hwy 20 in Quebec that would have taken 45 mins to recover. It seems to me that sometimes it tries to find the shortest route, as the crow flies, but it takes me through small towns and curvy roads when it is so much better to stay on the expressway.

When I am driving in my car, I can't check out the prescribed route when asking for directions, I have to trust the maps to get me there when I ask for directions.

Thank you for reading this and if you have any suggestions or advice or similar problems, I would appreciate hearing it.

Posted on Nov 6, 2021 5:23 AM

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Posted on Nov 6, 2021 5:42 AM

For any problem regarding Apple Maps app, please submit your request to Apple directly, using the following link:--> Feedback - Maps for iOS and iPadOS - Apple

Thanks and regards

Giulio

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Nov 6, 2021 7:01 AM in response to ProustGiulio

Yes. You are users like me. Just like if I went to car community where they discuss issues with cars, they are just users. But in that community there are people who have run into similar problems. We don't expect people to know everything so that is why we go a community group where the knowledge base is supported with the experience of thousands of others. We don't go to a car discussion group and every time someone asks a question about a car and the only answer is, take it to a mechanic. That would negate the point of the community.

So I get it that you don't know the answer, maybe someone else would have. But now I am kinda annoyed at the whole thing and just want to delete my op and move on.

Nov 6, 2021 7:30 AM in response to Hardy worker

You're right, I don't know the appropriate answer, but I've been trying to help you the only way I know (for the problem you described): inform Apple about the weird behavior Maps app is showing. I'm not aware of any workarounds or different settings to adopt in such a situation.


And yes, I hope that other contributors can offer you a better solution.

Regards and best of luck.

Giulio



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