Safari auto complete favours apple maps over google!

Safari's Search bar "autocomplete" feature draws its information from your browsing history and bookmarks. Reset Safari's history and / or stored data by following these instructions:

Clear your browsing history in Safari on Mac - Apple Support

Manage cookies and website data in Safari on Mac

As John Galt wrote, you can try resetting Safari. If I start to type "maps", I get no search suggestions (though I do have Siri Suggestions off).

As a side note- there's no Apple Maps online. The website "maps.apple.com" simply goes to the About page on their website.

This is Apple Chicanery.... I go to my browser history and search maps.apple and it is nNO WHERE in my history. Never intentionally gone there, YET, it still keeps autocompleting it. Reset my history and complete browser cookies, etc. cleared it for a couple weeks, all for nothing cause its back again.

I agree Apple definitely favors its own maps. I finally figured out why it sometimes takes me there: if you type in a search term for some place in the address bar and click the top suggestion, that's often an Apple Maps link. From that point on, Apple Maps becomes the favored autocomplete until you remove that one link from your history. It doesn't matter if you go to Google Maps 10 times after that, it still autocompletes to Apple Maps as long as that one link is in your history.

I just switched back to Chrome using personas to separate my work from my home use, I had previously used Safari for my home stuff and Chrome for work. Apple really screwed up with this, they made Safari unusable for me with this change.

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I've never been to the Google website... yet this is what I get

Reset Safari as I suggested.