How stop safari from using Google Maps as default

Uncle_Dave_ wrote:

I have tried all suggestions, settings, etc. I removed Google Map app from IPhone. Every time I search for a store on Safari, it will only provide directions using Google Maps, and wants me to download Google maps app. I want to use Apple Maps or Waze. My Gmail Settings have Apple Maps as default. Can anyone help?

This is normal. When you search for something on Safari, you're using Google as your search engine. It'll open the directions in the web version of Google Maps anyway even if you've never installed the Google Maps app.

You can, however, simply search for the store in the Apple Maps app.

John Galt wrote:

Safari does not use Google Maps as a default for anything.

Perhaps I've misunderstood. If I search for a business on my iPhone using Safari (with Google as the search engine) and click the blue 'Directions' button, it opens directions in Google Maps on the web [www.google.com/maps], never Apple Maps.

One of us is misunderstanding something, because I just searched for Saks Fifth Avenue and a nice Apple Maps picture appears along with directions, etc. I have never seen Google Maps result, not from a Safari search.

(with Google as the search engine)

Perhaps that's the problem, hence my question to the OP.

John Galt wrote:

One of us is misunderstanding something, because I just searched for Saks Fifth Avenue and a nice Apple Maps picture appears along with directions, etc. I have never seen Google Maps result, not from a Safari search.

(with Google as the search engine)

Perhaps that's the problem, hence my question to the OP.

Huh, very strange- indeed, interested to hear what's going on here.

Safari does not use Google Maps as a default for anything.

What is your chosen search engine? To change it read Search for websites in Safari on iPhone - Apple Support: "Choose a search engine"