The iOS14 Apple Maps Thread

[MozMan68]

We had a Renault Kadjar hire car whilst in France last year which had CarPlay, never had the fuel go low enough to prompt a warning but if you used the built in sat nav or via a CarPlay app it did show some directional arrows and distances on the dash behind the steering wheel as well as on the main screen. Was quite handy.

The hire car Vauxhall i had would show music stuff on the info screen behind the steering wheel if it was from the radio or streamed via Bluetooth but if you played anything via CarPlay it was blank. I think basically Vauxhall did the minimum to implement CarPlay. As an aside was playing about building a Volvo estate on their website configurator earlier....£300 option for CarPlay\Android Auto to be enabled on their infotainment system!! I'm at a point now where a car not having CarPlay would be a bit of a deal breaker, be an interesting test for the salesman to see if he was happy to let me walk away from a £30k to £50k car over £300 to enable it.

Believe it or not, everything you said is true for most cars. Most do not implement all the features they can. The low fuel warning is the only one I’ve ever seen.

My year old VW Atlas only gives me the low fuel warning in its own nav system, not CarPlay.

I just wish car companies would embrace CarPlay and Android Auto as enhancements to their systems instead of offering much worse options just to “stay on brand.”

 

[BBDDVV]

BMWs with iDrive OS7 (and build after July 2020) show CarPlay guidance in the gauge cluster as well as in the Heads Up Display.

 

[G1Ravage]

BMWs with iDrive OS7 (and build after July 2020) show CarPlay guidance in the gauge cluster as well as in the Heads Up Display.

I'm hoping Genesis implements CarPlay guidance into their heads up display, too....

 

[bransoj]

BMWs with iDrive OS7 (and build after July 2020) show CarPlay guidance in the gauge cluster as well as in the Heads Up Display.

Are BMW still trying to charge a monthly fee for CarPlay access?

 

[BBDDVV]

Nope, CarPlay is free and now also AndroidAuto is supported as of a recent iDrive OS7 update

 

[G1Ravage]

The official release version of iOS 14.2 came out the other day. As reported by the beta testers, the white dots in night mode seem to be gone now.

Haven't noticed any other changes.

 

[Dunk the Lunk]

I had a very strange one today with the incorrect entrance. Try Great Eccleston Dental Surgery 🙈 I literally don’t know how the direction could be so wrong!!

Because the address is ‘4 The Square, Gt Eccleston, Preston...’ but the entrance has been assigned (for some reason) to ‘4 The Square, Whittingham, Preston...’. I’ve submitted this as an error so I’d imagine it’ll be fixed pretty quickly.

Apple Maps doesn’t seem to have picked up ‘The Square’ as a road name either. But then neither has Google Maps, which also has the pin on the wrong building on the opposite side of the road...

Yesterday I received a notification that this issue had been fixed. However, interestingly they seemed to have messed it up. Rather than using correct location I gave them they seem to have copied the incorrect location from Google!

 

[G1Ravage]

I'm experiencing a new "glitch" now on iOS 14.2, but I'm not sure if it's really a glitch or not.

When I used to access my "Guides" in Apple CarPlay, it would give me two options to choose from: "My Places" and "All Places".

Choosing "My Places" displayed a list of the places I had saved in the order that I had added them, I believe. Choosing "All Places" displayed that same list, but in order of distance from my current location, with the nearest saved location appearing first.

But now, choosing either of them seems to display the list in order of them being added.

I just went into my phone and messed around with my "lists" a bit. On the phone, you have the option of displaying by date added, or by distance. I switched it to distance, and I'll check tomorrow to see if that changed anything in the car.

 

[improvemaps]

Some interesting findings about a more detailed map during turn-by-turn navigation in some European cities over on the Apple Maps subreddit. Looks to me like it's Apple's own data but in the early stages of testing. The detail on the golf course and the baseball fields are similar to the detail shown in areas with Apple's own map data. Original poster on reddit suggests that it's TomTom data. Any thoughts?

 

[MozMan68]

Some interesting findings about a more detailed map during turn-by-turn navigation in some European cities over on the Apple Maps subreddit. Looks to me like it's Apple's own data but in the early stages of testing. The detail on the golf course and the baseball fields are similar to the detail shown in areas with Apple's own map data. Original poster on reddit suggests that it's TomTom data. Any thoughts?

I saw that and it sure looked like Apple data to me. But not having had TomTom data for a couple of years, I'm not sure if they even provide that kind of detail on any of their maps.

EDIT: And I thought Apple always provided that data anyway (the graphics of the map) with TomTom just providing the road data/routing. Maybe I'm wrong on that though...not sure where the line is drawn on that.

 

[G1Ravage]

Some interesting findings about a more detailed map during turn-by-turn navigation in some European cities over on the Apple Maps subreddit. Looks to me like it's Apple's own data but in the early stages of testing. The detail on the golf course and the baseball fields are similar to the detail shown in areas with Apple's own map data. Original poster on reddit suggests that it's TomTom data. Any thoughts?

Even before the new Apple Maps ever premiered in the US, certain major cities had extra graphical data like baseball fields and golf courses, within a certain radius from the city center. And this added detail only appeared while navigating.

It's possible this is a first step towards testing the new maps in those countries.

 

[dk001]

Recently updated to 14.2 (11 ProMax) and since then Maps has been ... wonky.
Had to drive to Marina Del Rey and Apple Maps did a great job till it told me to take a closed off ramp.
Pulled it up on Google Maps and it was clearly shown as closed.


Also found that traffic has been “downplayed?” or something. It has been showing traffic as “less than” it really is.
Once again Google Maps shows more realistic.


Keep in mind this is only since updating to 14.2 from the 14.2 RC Beta.
Hope this clears up in the next few days.

 

[dk001]

Update: Directions excluding the closed off ramp were good and spot on.

 

[iOS Geek]

Apple doesn't waste any time on updating building models in the standard view! I sent some feedback about a few buildings in the area that have had additions built. Sent the feedback on Saturday. This morning, I'm seeing the updates on all but one.

I'm fairly impressed. Those reports were handled faster than other feedback I've sent in the past (which were also handled quickly). That could mean the work was already in progress. But if not...they're really pushing the pedal to the floor!

 

[MozMan68]

Apple doesn't waste any time on updating building models in the standard view! I sent some feedback about a few buildings in the area that have had additions built. Sent the feedback on Saturday. This morning, I'm seeing the updates on all but one.

I'm fairly impressed. Those reports were handled faster than other feedback I've sent in the past (which were also handled quickly). That could mean the work was already in progress. But if not...they're really pushing the pedal to the floor!

I try to imagine the pressure they are under with not only making corrections quickly, but everything being "just right."

We've all seen it in the Maps threads...constant comparisons to Google or Waze, and not all of them without some merit. But it is so easy to find one small error or misrepresentation in any map program. Still makes me laugh when someone points one out like it even affects 99.99999% of anyone outside of their small world...hah!

They're doing a great job...there's a long way to go...I'm glad I live in a new Maps area...enough said!

 

[iOS Geek]

I also jumped on to the Big Sur beta and I do have to say, bringing the iOS/iPadOS Maps capabilities to the Mac...pretty much took care of my biggest complaint about Maps on Mac. Without Look Around, indoor maps, and things like that, the Mac app just felt incomplete.

The only gripe right now is that my Favorites/Guides aren't syncing reliably between my Mac, phone, or iPad. Sent macOS beta feedback about that, but once that's taken care of, it's all good! Maps on Mac is one heck of a great app now!

 

[G1Ravage]

Apple doesn't waste any time on updating building models in the standard view! I sent some feedback about a few buildings in the area that have had additions built. Sent the feedback on Saturday. This morning, I'm seeing the updates on all but one.

I'm fairly impressed. Those reports were handled faster than other feedback I've sent in the past (which were also handled quickly). That could mean the work was already in progress. But if not...they're really pushing the pedal to the floor!

Meh...I've asked them three times to create a building model which has been missing for my local White Castle, and they've yet to do so.

 

[G1Ravage]

Recently updated to 14.2 (11 ProMax) and since then Maps has been ... wonky.
Had to drive to Marina Del Rey and Apple Maps did a great job till it told me to take a closed off ramp.
Pulled it up on Google Maps and it was clearly shown as closed.
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Also found that traffic has been “downplayed?” or something. It has been showing traffic as “less than” it really is.
Once again Google Maps shows more realistic.
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Keep in mind this is only since updating to 14.2 from the 14.2 RC Beta.
Hope this clears up in the next few days.

I don't think the update to iOS 14.2 had anything to do with that...Apple Maps often has less info than Google when it comes to road or ramp closures.

 

[rmf644]

The one journey I did so far didn’t go through any traffic lights and we don’t really have stop signs like you get in the US.

I had Stop Signs, Traffic Lights and Red Light Cams warnings from Nov 7 to 10, disappeared on the 11 smh

 

[dk001]

I don't think the update to iOS 14.2 had anything to do with that...Apple Maps often has less info than Google when it comes to road or ramp closures.

While I see this at times, it is “coincidental?” that I am seeing a broad downgrade in my area (Los Angeles, Ventura) that coincided with 14.2. It was doing really well throughout the 14.2 betas....
Still, you could be correct.

 

[G1Ravage]

While I see this at times, it is “coincidental?” that I am seeing a broad downgrade in my area (Los Angeles, Ventura) that coincided with 14.2. It was doing really well throughout the 14.2 betas....
Still, you could be correct.

I just can't imagine that traffic data being fed from Apple's data servers could somehow appear on the same map differently based on slight variations of iOS builds on phones.

At least on a personal note, I've been driving in New York City with iOS 14.2 since it came out (officially), and haven't noticed any traffic oddities. But I never do beta testing.

 

[timeislove]

I just can't imagine that traffic data being fed from Apple's data servers could somehow appear on the same map differently based on slight variations of iOS builds on phones.

At least on a personal note, I've been driving in New York City with iOS 14.2 since it came out (officially), and haven't noticed any traffic oddities. But I never do beta testing.

Hello,

after upgraded to 14.2, I see a big circle surrounding my possible current location (before it was shown as a dot).

what does this new big circle mean?

 

[bransoj]

Hello,

after upgraded to 14.2, I see a big circle surrounding my possible current location (before it was shown as a dot).

what does this new big circle mean?

Presumably its the rough GPS area your phone has pinpointed your location as and it will get smaller as it gets more accurate. I see it as well and it tends to be a larger circle first off when i start maps until it narrows my location down more accurately.

 

[martin2345uk]

Why is Apple Maps still not linked properly to Contacts? When I search for "Dad" it gives me these bizarre results, same for "Mum"... is there a setting I am missing?

 

[G1Ravage]

Hello,

after upgraded to 14.2, I see a big circle surrounding my possible current location (before it was shown as a dot).

what does this new big circle mean?

I usually see this indoors. It means Apple Maps doesn't have as precise an idea of where you are as normal. If you're outside and see this, you can use your phone's camera to "scan" the buildings around you, and then Apple Maps will know precisely where you are.