Why doesn't my business show up on iPhone Maps after upgrading to iOS6?

The problem is you are a church.

That conflicts with the Apple CEOs lifestyle.

Make a stink about it. Call local media and ask then why certain bars in Nola are listed in Apple Maps but your large church isn't.

Oh dear....you do realise it's been three and a half years don't you? The church in question is on Maps, as you could have checked for yourself before posting such an inane conspiracy theory. Did a quick check of my own locality and guess what - every local church I could think of is listed. You appear to have written a "post-fact" post.

You can report the missing information via this method:

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/09/24/how-to-report-a-problem-with-ios-6-maps-data /

Regards.

You've done all you can, I think. It's irritating, I know, but you'll probably just have to wait. It's a long process to get tens or hundreds of thousands of businesses and organizations all registered correctly. Google's Maps took a long time to build up as well, and it's far from completely accurate even now even though they started a long time ago.

Regards.

Jcabiro,

According to my sources, Apple only updates its business listing index about once per month. And before an individual listing gets updated, it needs to get verified that the information is accurate. My understanding is that Apple doles the verification process out to various data vendors based on the category of the listing. So that means that the process is something like this:

1. Report a Problem submission

2. Add the submission to the batch of recent submissions and categorize update request

3. Send batch to outside vendor for verification

4. Vendor receives batch and queues it for verfication

5. Vendor verifies listing info and places into batch for submission to Apple

6. Vendor submits verfied batch to Apple

7. Apple matches up the verified data with data from other vendors (meaning sometimes the updated data gets over-written by another data vendor Apple trusts more)

8. Apple updates its listing index and (hopefully) the updated data gets pushed live

If I have come even close to accurately describing the process, as you can see before Apple pushes the update live, it could take several weeks just to make it through the verification system. And if a verified update is sent to Apple a minute after the latest index update, then it could take an additional 30 days for it to go live.

I am sure Apple is working on ways to speed up this process, but it's likely a hugely complex system that is not easily updated.