can't clear previous searches from Maps in iOS 8

Oh God Derryl I'm getting a headache from not being able to do this. I always clear the history after I get to the location always. It's been driving me crazy in my car all day long. That and that siri doesn't activate with the earphone button anymore only with "Hey Siri" and that's only if it's plugged into power.

If you find out how to do it please LET ME KNOW ASAP. I will go trhough the whole settings app in detail tonight and if I find anything i'll let you know immediately. Why couldn't they leave Maps alone. It was getting better and it was working perfectly. They've removed as many features as they've added! I'll see how iOS 8 responds on the 6 tomorrow.

I just figured it out! Tap the search bar in Maps, the tap Favorites, then clear will show up on the upper left hand side! Finally. Wow is that hidden or what? I never favorite anything therefore i would've never found it! I hope this brings you peace dude. Stuff like this happens in every release and it's frustrating. I can't get Siri to work by pressing the button on my 4S earphones. I don't know if I need the new ones or what. Hey Siri only works if im charging the phone in my car. Otherwise it doesn't work which makes no sense. I guess the Hey Siri feature is a heavy battery killer since it just works by audio but why take away the button option. I will be ****** if the mic and button don't fully work on my 1st gen Beats Studios. I'm not going to keep buying new accessories just because Apple wants me to.

There is one step you may have left out (at least for my own iPhone)...

After tapping the searchbar, then tapping favorites, I then had to tap "recents" at the bottom of the screen to get the "clear" button to appear.

Thanks a lot for the help. This was bothering me a lot.

Yeah I forgot to put that part in but I figured out that you would figure it out once you tapped favorites. I'm glad I could help since I like to erase all my history and I'm really anal about keeping all the cache and history clean for every single app if its possible.

Thank you so much for asking this!! I couldn't find it anywhere!! Thank you to the person who found how to resolve this issue!!

That is correct, very stupid!!

Thank you.

I managed to clear my entire history of addresses/searches, following your advice.

Next question: Is there any way to delete selectively the various searches? Some I would like to keep; others, not.

Another question. In searching for an answer to this, I ran across this page from MacWorld, which also deals with the question. See here:

http://www.macworld.com/article/1162976/hands_on_with_find_my_iphone_mac_and_fri ends.html

Snell's screen shot shows the icon at the top of the screen, to the right of the right of the address window, as a Bookmark icon. By my iPhone Maps shows a different icon--the one with the little box with an upward rising arrow emerging from it, which takes you to the links for emailing, etc.

It means that Snell's solution doesn't work for me.

Have I missed something? (I usually have).

Thanks!

Alarik

Thank you! An undocumented feature ... more steps to do the same thing!

I'm a new iPhone user and i have this exact question as well - how to selectively clear search history items - there are a few I'd like to keep for future use but many I'd like to delete - it's very frustrating that you can only clear all or nothing! a related question: does anyone know if keeping the search history items in any way uses up the battery faster?

Can someone here PLEASE look at the question I just asked tonight, under maps. About maps search history. I don't need to delete the search history, I'm just wondering how some of it shows up....and the how/why the "From a person" for an address shows up under it. I don't understand at all. How it got there, why the person is connected to it. The people aren't even in my contacts. Somebody please explain. I'll owe you one. Thank you

I Do not have a clear button! Only a cancel button which does nothin

that worked but i needed a little more direction.

tap maps, then favorites,

tap recents on the bar at the bottom or

the clear doesn't seem to appear

apple iphone 4s

Thanks so much, this was driving me crazy too! It worked.