Maps has an incorrect 'Home' for me

Recently I've started using Maps on my iPhone 7 (iOS11). Maps will offer to provide directions to 'Home'; unfortunately, it seems to have guessed a location for my home that is actually on the next block over and a good bit away. It therefore is always sending me to the wrong street to turn on.


I tried going into Contacts and creating an entry called 'Home' with my street address. Unfortunately this hasn't fixed the problem, and it is still showing the incorrect 'Home' location on maps and as a destination option.


How can I fix this?

Posted on May 19, 2018 7:19 PM

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Posted on May 23, 2018 3:56 PM

I get route suggestions all the time, so you're not alone there.


Something that might be worth a try to fix the problem of Maps suggesting to take you home (to the wrong address)


Go to Settings > Privacy > Location Services > System Services (scroll to the bottom)> Significant Locations. It will need your touch ID to view Significant Locations.


From there you could either scroll to the bottom and clear all history (including any favorites), or you can select the locations of your home, slide to the left and tap delete.


From the Settings > Privacy > Location Services > System Services you could also turn off Location based alerts and suggestions.


You could also turn off Significant Locations so it will stop tracking your habitual patterns.


Edit: Additional info...

If you have iCloud Maps turned on, deleting the significant location history really won't work, because iCloud will repopulate the history.

So you would need to turn off iCloud Maps to prevent iCloud from synchronizing map data. Go to Settings-> [username]Apple ID -> iCloud -> Turn off Maps.

I imagine after a while you would be able to turn it back on, just give it time for the iCloud data to be wiped out.

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