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Apple Maps Thread - iOS 15
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Well…crap. I think I’ll do a feedback report on this one and mark it as a “suggestion” when it asks what kind of feedback I’m reporting.I was on a Teams call on my drive to a lunch meeting, so never plugged my phone in as I got in the car.
Buildings were not showing up on the phone while routing.
Since I personally don’t consider the 3D models a huge functional thing (it’s a “nice to have” thing for me) I’d consider this one of those “small change…big impact” kind of changes. Not a fan.
I haven’t seen this yet, but apparently Maps now has weather alerts while driving?
I haven’t seen this yet, but apparently Maps now has weather alerts while driving?
4 minutes until the user drives into a severe thunderstorm watch?
I hope all of these new features will be adequately adapted into Maps on CarPlay as well.
Sorry to say, those have been there for a while….since 14.6 in March….was seeing them in the beta back in February when they first added the reporting, but no user submitted ones.
All posted accidents are government reporting. NYC just seems to be catching up in supplying the data.
Accidents, construction, traffic….all non-user manual updates, only Apple anonymous traffic data or government sourced data for now.
I did get three update notifications today though for reports I made over the past couple of weeks…they’re fixing reported POI info within a week now again.
Getting a report of an accident ahead while navigating is nothing new for me here. What was new in this instance:
-Siri announced, "Accident reported ahead on Bronx-Whitestone Bridge."
-Previously, the only selection during that pop-up was "OK". For the first time, I was given the option in CarPlay to either acknowledge that it was "Still Here", or report that it was "Cleared".
Hmmmm…have had Siri announce them as well earlier, but not sure about the detail you experienced as far as the location. That part may be new…kewl find!
I’ve experienced the option to clear or “still here” for a while now though. I only remember that as it came up on a Reddit post I created back in February when we first noticed the old accident graphic was updated to the new one introduced with the reporting function…it changed slightly. That option was there back then.
From my recollection, when pressing on the new accident graphic on the map itself, we were then given the option to clear it, or say it's still there. That option has been there for a while, as you said.
This is the first time this option was granted to me while navigating on CarPlay via Maps presenting me with the info unprompted.
You may be right...I need to quit my job so I can just play and record Maps trips all the time... ?
Sooo...umm....
DID YOU KNOW...
While using CarPlay, you can press your steering wheel button to bring up Siri, and simply say "take a screenshot", and Siri will take a screenshot for you?
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DID YOU KNOW...
While using CarPlay, you can press your steering wheel button to bring up Siri, and simply say "take a screenshot", and Siri will take a screenshot for you?
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Sooo...umm....
DID YOU KNOW...
While using CarPlay, you can press your steering wheel button to bring up Siri, and simply say "take a screenshot", and Siri will take a screenshot for you?
.....
Whoa…did not know that!
Also, maybe I’m just not looking enough, but seeing details in the 3D map that I don’t think were there before like this pedestrian walkway for a college near here. Almost seems too detailed to be pulled from the normal data for homes…but maybe I’m out of it as usual.
And the building details almost seem too good and accurate for little old Grand Rapids.
For years now, I've gotten CarPlay screenshots by pulling my phone out from my car's phone cubby, sliding it out of its shell case, pressing the power and volume buttons, sliding it back in, and putting it back in the cubby, hopefully without the USB cord getting caught around my shifter, and thankfully without drifting out of my lane or crashing into something! (MUCH easier to do at a stop light. lol)
So I was driving into work last night, and for some reason was in a screenshotting mood. I had just asked Siri for the weather report for the night, and wondered...could I? So I asked her to take a screenshot, and a second later, I heard the screenshot sound effect. My jaw dropped. Now I can get screenshots safely while driving on the highway, or basically anywhere. Super awesome.
Apparently, this feature was quietly added when iOS 14 came out.
Some of the screenshots I was in the mood to take. I even caught one at an odd angle, as it was in the middle of transitioning to the top-down view for an upcoming turn! #teambuildings
Reminder: I’m still on iOS 14.7.
Reminder: I’m still on iOS 14.7.
Does anyone elses Apple Maps via Carplay always default to 2d view after initial startup? I always have to switch it to 3D and "North Up" every single time, small annoyance, but i really wish it would just save the settings and always be in 3D / True North mode
Yes, that's been a glitch that's been happening since iOS 13 came out. At least, I'm assuming it's a glitch, as Apple Maps on CarPlay always remembered your last used view settings and kept them.
I use 3D perspective on the map. When I start up, it'll almost always start up in 3D mode, BUT, after a route concludes, it'll almost always leave you in 2D mode, and then I have to switch back.
Mine always goes into 3D when driving...of course, after I have sped up a little as it will remain in 2D mode at lower speeds or when you come up to a turn.
#StillMisses3DBuildings
#StillMisses3DBuildings
Ok after spending the last half hour just browsing around through Maps in San Francisco…I have to say Look Around is no longer the biggest thing I’m looking forward to in my area (still don’t have it yet). The super-detailed map…IS by far my biggest “want” right now.
As mentioned a while back, I doubt it’ll come to my area with the topography aspect of it (at least at first) and I’m ok with that. The “hand-drawn” (as I believe someone else here referred to it as) is a game changer in my opinion and I’m REALLY looking forward to seeing it in my area! This might be one occasion where I wish I still lived in the Bay Area…I’d love to take a drive with these Maps!
As mentioned a while back, I doubt it’ll come to my area with the topography aspect of it (at least at first) and I’m ok with that. The “hand-drawn” (as I believe someone else here referred to it as) is a game changer in my opinion and I’m REALLY looking forward to seeing it in my area! This might be one occasion where I wish I still lived in the Bay Area…I’d love to take a drive with these Maps!
I just hope that when iOS 15 rolls out to the public, we won't have to wait for the added road details to reach the entire country. I know the super-details and elevation data is unique to only major cities for now, hence the preview in San Francisco, but it worries me that even on the iOS 15 beta, only San Francisco has the added road detail at the moment.
But I live in New York, so bring on that super-city detail to me. haha
I’ll agree with this. I’m one of those people who lives in an area that is yet to get all of the iOS 14 map features (not only do we not have Look Around yet, we don’t even have cycling directions), so when I watched the keynote and saw the announcement for the iOS 15 features, I started wondering how long it would be before I see any of those. Now granted that we’re still somewhat early in the beta process, I guess I won’t worry TOO much about it, but I did sort of think we’d see at least one more of the listed cities added. Maybe next beta.
Or…LA, NY, and London get their super detail AND the rest of us get our added detail on release day. Who knows! I could actually see this being tied to Look Around releases somewhere down the line. Maybe, come September, release day hits and Apple releases Look Around for the entire US and also drop the map detail at the same time. Especially because as MozMan has noticed, Apple’s website does not say that the enhanced detail is going to be limited to the selected cities. They had a separate callout for the cities getting the SUPER detail…and we all know how careful Apple is with their wording! That being the case, I’ll hold out hope for all of us getting the added details on release day and then the announced cities getting their super detail at that point if they don’t get it during the betas.
So I made a rush hour drive today from Queens out to Long Island to pick up my mother at work. Traffic is usually fairly annoying. To get an idea of my options, I opened Apple Maps, Google Maps, and Waze, set my destination on each, and observed each app's preferred route and ETE.
Apple Maps had me sticking with the main highways, despite being all red for most of the route, and an ETE of 32 minutes.
Google Maps had me taking local roads for a large chunk of the way, and then intercepting the highway much later in the route, with an ETE of 29 minutes.
Waze interestingly more or less agreed with Apple Maps, with just a slight detour to avoid some early highway traffic, and an ETE of 34 minutes.
Naturally, once I got down to the car, I went with Apple Maps all the way. Despite there being traffic on the highways as anticipated, it was moving decently, and wasn't as bad as you might have assumed from looking at all of the red on the map. When I left home, I had an ETE of 33 minutes. But the whole trip ended up only taking 28 minutes.
This gels with my long time hypothesis that Apple Maps as a rule will always favor highways for a more a relaxing drive, and seems to be able to detect that there are some better pockets of movement on sections of the highway, despite the overall appearance of a lot of traffic. Plus, over a long distance, highways tend to overall move better, as you're not fighting traffic signals and such on a one or two-lane road.
Also, I believe that during periods of heavier traffic, Apple Maps will typically overestimate your travel time, in the hopes that you'll feel calmer as you see you're ultimately beating the time you thought you'd be arriving.
Apple Maps had me sticking with the main highways, despite being all red for most of the route, and an ETE of 32 minutes.
Google Maps had me taking local roads for a large chunk of the way, and then intercepting the highway much later in the route, with an ETE of 29 minutes.
Waze interestingly more or less agreed with Apple Maps, with just a slight detour to avoid some early highway traffic, and an ETE of 34 minutes.
Naturally, once I got down to the car, I went with Apple Maps all the way. Despite there being traffic on the highways as anticipated, it was moving decently, and wasn't as bad as you might have assumed from looking at all of the red on the map. When I left home, I had an ETE of 33 minutes. But the whole trip ended up only taking 28 minutes.
This gels with my long time hypothesis that Apple Maps as a rule will always favor highways for a more a relaxing drive, and seems to be able to detect that there are some better pockets of movement on sections of the highway, despite the overall appearance of a lot of traffic. Plus, over a long distance, highways tend to overall move better, as you're not fighting traffic signals and such on a one or two-lane road.
Also, I believe that during periods of heavier traffic, Apple Maps will typically overestimate your travel time, in the hopes that you'll feel calmer as you see you're ultimately beating the time you thought you'd be arriving.
Unless you tell it to avoid tolls or highways I found AM usually picks the shortest route and generally defers to highways.
In this instance, the highways route is the far longer route, as it takes you on a circuitous leg around the edge of Queens.