I have 2 Macbooks. If I'm looking at, say, real estate and I click on an address on Macbook 1, the Maps app shows the address as expected. However, on Macbook 2, if I click on an address, I am asked to sign into Google.
How do I get the same behavior on Macbook 2 as on Macbook 1?
Thanks!
Perhaps, but I don't have that program so I don't know if it is possible to tell it which app to open upon clicking a link.
Using that app on MacBook 1, can you inspect that hyperlink without causing a subsequent action? For example, you can secondary-click (two-finger tap, right click, or control-click) the link in your reply above, and select Copy Link:
Using Safari as an example,
Pasting it into a text field results in the following:
http://maps.google.com/?q=5454%20Buena%20Vista%20Rd+Whites%20Creek,%20TN%2037189
... which makes it abundantly clear the link will open your selected browser and load that Google web page, which understandably wants you to sign in to Google.
In the example I cited from Apple's web page the hyperlink is quite different:
... which opens Safari, which subsequently asks if I want Safari to open the Maps app. Apple does not ask me to sign into anything, because unlike Google, Apple has no interest in what I'm doing.
The question that remains is to determine just what that app's hyperlink resembles, and if that app offers a setting that changes it.
Hi there My-apple-community-questions,
So that we can get a better idea of what's happening, are you using the 'Search for a location' section here to look at these addresses in the Maps app on each MacBook or are you doing something else? Find a location in Maps on Mac
Let's ensure each Mac is fully updated as well. This installs feature improvements and bug fixes that can resolve unexpected behavior like this. These steps from Update macOS on Mac show how to back up and update:
Before following these steps, it's a good idea to back up your Mac.
1. From the Apple menu in the corner of your screen, choose System Settings or System Preferences.
* If you chose System Settings, click General on the left side of the window. Then click Software Update on the right.
* If you chose System Preferences, click Software Update in the window.
2. Software Update then checks for new software.
* If Software Update finds new software, click the button to install it. The button might be named Update Now, Upgrade Now, Install Now, or Restart Now, for example. You might then be asked to enter your administrator password.
* If Software Update says that your Mac is up to date, then no new software is currently available for your Mac model. Software Update shows only software that is compatible with your Mac.
If this continues after updating, please provide more details on exactly how you are prompted to sign into Google so that we can continue to isolate this issue.
Cheers!
Hello My-apple-community-questions,
Welcome to Apple Support Communities!
We want to help so the correct app opens when clicking on an address.
We’ll need to learn more about this to help isolate and resolve the issue.
Since issue continues, please reach out to an Apple Support Advisor for further assistance: Apple Support
They will be able to work together with you to reach a resolution.
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The links you posted are completely normal URLs that will launch your default web browser and load the Google Maps website. In other words it is working exactly as expected.
When I do the same procedure on my other Macbook, it takes me to Apple Maps.
Describe that procedure. Clicking a link, regardless of where you find it, is going to open a browser. That's to be expected. The browser may in turn be able to open an app. See below, in which Safari will offer to open Maps upon clicking that link:
Clicking Allow opens Maps.
I know what you would like to do but we need to know the procedure you are using on your other Mac that does that. macOS incorporates "data detectors" that automatically recognize data such as addresses, phone numbers and the like, and can open Maps or FaceTime according to the context it is able to detect. But a street address you might find on a website may already be formatted as a link, as it was in the example you provided.
Thank you for your reply. Here is more information.
When I am in a browser and I click on an address, like: 5454 Buena Vista Rd, Whites Creek, TN 37189
I do not get sent to Apple Maps, I get sent to Google to "verify it is me" so that it can take me to its version of maps.
When I do the same procedure on my other Macbook, it takes me to Apple Maps.
There must be a Preferences setting somewhere that controls this and causes the different behavior - I can't find it. Hoping you can help.
I use an application called realtracs.com. On MacBook 1, using this app, I can enter a partial or full U.S. Mail address and it pulls up a property description. As part of that description, the full address of the home/business is displayed as a hyperlink. If you want to see where the home/business is on a map (like Apple or Google maps), you can do so by clicking the hyperlink. This works perfectly on MacBook 1.
If I do the same thing on MacBook 2, clicking the hyperlink asks me to log into Google rather than just displaying the home/business on the map. (And, your're right, it does come up in a browser. I think I became so used to copying the address and manually putting it into Apple Maps that I described this incorrectly in my post.)
Is this a good enough identification of the procedure?
I am hoping I can change (a setting?) on MacBook 2 so I get the same behavior as I described for MacBook 1.
View address map without signing into Google
