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My Maps app has stopped announcing directions. iPhone 5, iOS 7.1 with latest updates. Location services is turned on. Sounds are turned on. Volume is set to Loud in the Maps app. Cellular Data is turned on for Maps. I tried resetting my phone per the instructions online and nothing has helped so far. Any ideas?
iPhone 5, iOS 7.1
Is the side sound lock on the phone activated on. It's above the volume buttons.
No the side sound lock is not activated on. That was the first thing that I checked.
Is Siri on? I'm not sure if that has something to do with it, but it usually does.
In any case, have you gone to settings>maps and made sure "no voice" isn't checked?
Settings-Maps is set to Loud Volume. No Voice IS NOT checked.
Siri is turned on.
Mmm ... And, just to reiterate, the sound switch isn't on orange right?
Do you have your phone paired with any bluetooth headphones? I know I sometimes forget mine are on a it picks up all my sound???
That's all I got. Good luck :)
Perhaps Allow HFP Prompts in Maps. (Scroll down the article to the subheading.)
Also see Christian Zibreg's article, New in iOS 7.1: Maps navigation prompts through your car's stereo over Bluetooth.
The sound button is not on orange.
My phone is paired with a JBL mini Bluetooth speaker at home, but when I am travelling in my car Bluetooth is turned off. I am not trying to use Bluetooth for the Maps app. I just want my iPhone5 to announce the directions through its own internal speakers, which it used to do just fine. And now it does not.
I am not trying to use Maps over Bluetooth via my car stereo, and I never had to resort to this in the past. Maps used to announce turn-by-turn directions without anything else involved by using my iPhone5's internal speakers. Now it does not. And I cannot figure out why or what has changed.
alp1116 wrote:
Location services is turned on.
Within Location Services (Settings > Privacy > Location Services) is Maps turned on?
Yes as I said above location services is turned on for Maps.
After much trial and error I finally figured this out. It has to do with the starting location. The starting location must be "Current Location" in order for Maps to announce turn-by-turn directions. In other words you have to start by entering your destination address, and then select "directions to here", which sets the from location to "current location". I had dropped a pin on my home, which is the same starting address as "current location", so should have given me the same result, but for some reason when you type in the actual address of your current location for the starting location, it does not activate the voice control for turn-by-turn navigation. I have tried this two or three times and every time when I enter the starting location, Maps does not announce directions, but when I let it calculate my current location it does. Even when location services are turned on for Maps in both cases. Can't understand the logic here or why Aplle would program it this way, but it is what it is. If anyone else is having this issue, I hope this helps.
Thank you for the useful information !
You are welcome.
I, too, encounter no voice directions (seems like no sound) when I share a route (from my Mac) and pick it up on my iPhone. alp1116 is right.
I may be help to think of two kinds of shared routes. One is just for viewing (like you might send to a friend or yourself when you don't intend to use it for turn-by-turn directions). The other is for using with voice for turn-by-turn directions.
Another way to activite the voice direction (from the shared route) is: click the Overview, so you can see the destination. On the destination label, is a blue car icon, touch it. That will start the voice directions (probably by re-setting the origin from an address to "current location"). It's a simple way to force iPhone Maps to change to voice directions.
I have same problem
Maps app on iPhone5 with iOS 7.1 is not announcing directions with sound turned on
