Setting specific location as Home/Work/Other address when no street name is registered on Apple Maps or present at all

After so many years and iOS releases, Apple Maps (and Contacts) still does not provide the ability to set a specific, precise location (using GPS coordinates) as Home, or Work, or School, or Other address, when no street name is registered on Apple Maps or when there is no street name at all. (Yes Apple, even users living in the Little House on the Prairie have the right to using Apple Maps and associated features, too.) Problem is magnified if one takes into account that Home/Work location is necessary for crucial features such as Apple HomeKit use, route and time calculation on Apple Maps etc. The planet does not comprise hipster-friendly cities only, but also includes small villages without street names, and even not-so-remote, unnamed locations with properly-built houses where proper people live in. Google Maps allows allocating a specific pinned location as Home/Work address without the rather silly workaround (which does not work properly) of selecting a 'nearby' named street as address (as Apple Maps does). Apple should deal with this annoying issue as soon as possible and allow to add a precise location as address both on Contacts and on Apple Maps.

Posted on Oct 18, 2023 12:08 AM

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Jul 12, 2024 8:34 AM in response to Dead_Poet

Um.. yeah, same here. I live on the Canary Islands so I would not necessary claim that to be "the end of the World". It's also strange that I can open Apple Maps, give coordinates, and Apple Maps finds the location without a doubt.

But when the coordinates are put as my Home Address, it completely flashes.


By the way, to anyone wanting to suggest to put a pin on the exact location and then save it as a favourite 🫠

Jul 10, 2024 10:19 AM in response to Dead_Poet

Same here, got my first iPhone couple months ago and keep finding features that don't seem as "intuitive" as Apple always says everything supposedly is 🤷🏻‍♂️


Not being able to just set my current location as home is unintuitive and frustrating.


Tried to use a nearby location I found in Maps and refined it but realized that's not really what the refine location feature is for 😅

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