Apple Maps are absolutely horrible

I love pity party threads in a user to user technical support forum.

hey all.

to all the users which are complaining about the new apple maps app i can only say that when google first introduced its maps it had the same problems but no one cared back then, now when Apple makes an map app everyone suddenly crares and starts bagging out Apple. making an mapping app is hard and takes a lot of time, it is fairly new for apple and it will get better with the help of all the users by reporting the problem when you see one. Yes sure the problem will take abit of time to be fixed but it will be Apple always fix their problems. Plus there are more great features in the iOS 6 why only bag the mapps app.

Yeah but they should have made sure they developed the app to the same or similar standard as google maps before releasing it.

iOS 6 is good, i agree, but they made a BIG mistake with this maps app.

Yeah true. However Google was not giving Apple more than the basic Google maps features, on the other hand all Android phones have the ectra features, that is one of the reasons apple stoped using google map. it takes time to make a really good Map app, and users feedback is one of the best and quickest ways to improve the App, that is why it everyone needs to report the problem. in my case i have not had any problems so far in Australia.

I agree with all you say; BTW Apple had plenty of time to work on this Map application, no excuse for the shortcomings at this stage. Once again I feel cheated by Apple: everytime you "upgrade", you seem to be losing something.

Heya guys, I asked my own question but no replies. Apple have said that the more people who use Apple Maps the better it will get, but how exactly will that work?

In my area there are many coffee shops and pubs and only about 10% show up. So what is the method for getting this data into Apple Maps?

Part of my thinks we should not be doing this for Apple as they should really have made it more finished before launching, I'm sure Apple users wouldn't mind pittig up with basic google maps for another year. At the end of the day we don't really know how much Google were messing Apple around for them to say 'ok let's do our own maps'.

It is an amazing ambitious approach and it was never going to be easy. Yes I'm annoyed with Apple for forcing me to take this upgrade and therefor nerf my maps (which I use daily), however if I can help by adding buisneses in my area then I will.

So yeah, does anyone know how this is done?

My wife and I are both small business owners (separate businesses) and business is suffering because all of our business reviews were on Google. My wife's business wasn't even on the map! So our well-reviewed businesses now only have a handful of reviews by the few of our customers who use Yelp. Ouch.

Your actually defending this app ...... REALLY! 😮

I will NEVER update my IOS again with out weeks of reviews of the new features.

This is what happens to a company when it becomes, large, wealthy, and has a captive customer base.

It is a sure sign that Apple has reached it's peak and has nowhere to go but down.

MerlinUK wrote:

So yeah, does anyone know how this is done?

http://www.imore.com/how-add-location-or-report-problem-ios-6-maps

Matt

The most disturbing aspects of Mapplegate are the numerous misspellings and dislocated labels. It looks as if illiterate kids from developing countries had done all the typing. Some places are so horribly misspelled that they have nothing to do with the original name any more.

I live in Hong Kong and Apple even managed to put its own Apple store in the wrong place - I read somewhere that this even happened in the US. The location dependant reminder doesn't work any more because contrary to google maps, ios maps doesn't find my addresses - neither home nor work. It used to work perfectly.

No subway exits are displayed any more. At my workplace a movie theatre is shown, but it closed six years ago...

I have reported all these errors, but given that even in the US there are so many mistakes, it will take years until Apple fixes all the mistakes outside the US...

I'm beginning to see the funny side of it all and after some amusing excursions in ios maps, I have gladly installed the shortcut to the browser version of google maps...

I've never blogged before. I just had to sign up for a username so I can express my anger about this horrible iOS. I've had every iPhone since the beginning and I'm a die hard Apple fan. I have iPad, MB Air, etc.

I'm ready to trash my iPhone for and Android because the Apple maps suck so bad. It made me realize what was really great about traveling and the iPhone was Google maps. The Apple maps suck in so many different aspects. Only the turn by turn is useful and pretty good. The database and traffic portion *****.

I would gladly revert back to version 5.1.1 if that's possible....is it?

Because it's 2012 and the market and expectations have changed. Apple is smart enough to know this. Apple maps are so horrible that I refuse to look at any other feature of iOS6. I want my old phone back.

ATL-iPhone wrote:

I'm ready to trash my iPhone for and Android because the Apple maps suck so bad. It made me realize what was really great about traveling and the iPhone was Google maps.

You sound like and Android customer. Nothing wrong with that.

Matt

ATL-iPhone wrote:

I've never blogged before. I just had to sign up for a username so I can express my anger about this horrible iOS. I've had every iPhone since the beginning and I'm a die hard Apple fan. I have iPad, MB Air, etc.

And you still haven't. This is not a blog. This is a technical support forum. Ranting is in direct violation of the Terms of Use of these forums.

Google will show a app for IPHONE (OS6) (in apple store (itunes)) ....in a short time....it's on is way.........whe

know that apple maps is not goog............instead of upgrading the apple map

it will be shorter to change to google map and street view.....than to change apple map all over the world...it is in

process.........

btw google map is not perfect..........