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G1Ravage

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So guys...I just found an old iPhone 6 in my room! Hadn’t seen it in years. Was gonna sell it years ago, but then it went missing. Now it’s found.

I booted it up, and found it’s running iOS 10.0.1. LOL It’s not compatible with iOS 13, so it can only update to iOS 12.4.3 (which I’m not doing...yet).

So you might be asking yourselves...what does Apple Maps look like on such an old phone with an old operating system? Well, it’s...odd.

It’s definitely showing the new maps, at least as far as street layouts, street names, and new parkway shields are concerned. But it’s missing the layers of greenery that we’ve come to expect from the new maps. So bizarre.

Check out two samples below, followed by what they look like on a newer phone.

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Also, on the old phone running iOS 10, the building outlines don’t appear until you’ve zoomed in super, super close.
 
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G1Ravage

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I can still edit entrances to certain Favorites, such as homes of friends or family. But if a location is actually set as my Home or Work, Apple only lets you “refine” the location. So weird.

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G1Ravage said:
I can still edit entrances to certain Favorites, such as homes of friends or family. But if a location is actually set as my Home or Work, Apple only lets you “refine” the location. So weird.

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Just enter your address manually rather than selecting Home, hit Go, then End Route, then Report an Issue. Just worked for me on IPP.

Edit: this did not work the same way on my phone. There, I just got Refine Location
 
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gwhizkids said:
Just enter your address manually rather than selecting Home, hit Go, then End Route, then Report an Issue. Just worked for me on IPP.

Edit: this did not work the same way on my phone. There, I just got Refine Location
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I forgot to post again yesterday. The entrances feature was up when the beta was first released, but the edits were not going through. It was then removed again by yesterday morning.
 
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MozMan68 said:
I forgot to post again yesterday. The entrances feature was up when the beta was first released, but the edits were not going through. It was then removed again by yesterday morning.
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I wonder what the issue is with that. For a while, I was using that feature to edit entrances and got responses and corrections from that, and even noticed the changes when using turn-by-turn. It worked great at the time. Wonder what went wrong
 
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I wonder what the issue is with that. For a while, I was using that feature to edit entrances and got responses and corrections from that, and even noticed the changes when using turn-by-turn. It worked great at the time. Wonder what went wrong
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So...on an 800 mile road trip to Arkansas and I noticed that I COULD edit an entrance at a pin I dropped, but still not for POI’s...and I didn’t edit since it’s a place I’ve never been to, so not sure if it would go through anyway.

I did find a nice way to get the benefits of Waze while still using Apple Maps. This may not be new to those of you that use CarPlay way more often than me...particularly on long trips.

Start the trip as usual using Apple Maps for directions.

Since CarPlay won’t let two map apps function at the same time, open Waze, but don’t ask it to do anything...but it will be seen as an app on the quick change side of the menu.

Now open the dashboard which will show Apple Maps directions.

Waze will still be “open” in the background and give you notifications on the road even though you are not routing with it. And you can still switch to it and mark events or see where they are while still navigating with Maps.

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Pretty good example of the inconsistent bubble and POI icon size when navigating on CarPlay. Let’s see if this shows up better.

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The top photo is how it normally looks on iOS 13. Large road bubbles and small POI icons. But sometimes (and don’t ask me why), the road bubbles will be small, and the POI icons will be larger, which more closely resembles how everything looked on iOS 12.
 
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MozMan68 said:
So...on an 800 mile road trip to Arkansas and I noticed that I COULD edit an entrance at a pin I dropped, but still not for POI’s...and I didn’t edit since it’s a place I’ve never been to, so not sure if it would go through anyway.

I did find a nice way to get the benefits of Waze while still using Apple Maps. This may not be new to those of you that use CarPlay way more often than me...particularly on long trips.

Start the trip as usual using Apple Maps for directions.

Since CarPlay won’t let two map apps function at the same time, open Waze, but don’t ask it to do anything...but it will be seen as an app on the quick change side of the menu.

Now open the dashboard which will show Apple Maps directions.

Waze will still be “open” in the background and give you notifications on the road even though you are not routing with it. And you can still switch to it and mark events or see where they are while still navigating with Maps.

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Great tip!
 
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Can someone please tell me how to turn off the share ETA completely? I don’t want to see a button or pop up, I want to completely remove the future.
 
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MozMan68 said:
Honestly, the fact that even one person just got it most likely means it is coming. They wouldn’t release it to anyone unless it was.
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It’s probably coming tomorrow. There’s a trend that I’ve noticed where Apple will release the maps updates on a limited and wide release on a Monday. What do you think? Tomorrow?
 
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What’s the best way to report a error on maps? I live in a small town in France and one street is one way. Maps guides me every time in the wrong way.
I have reported it in Maps app but nothing has changed since...
 
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I have a feeling Alaska may be coming soon (at least for testing). Before I got the test of the Midwest, I noticed some POI's that were out of place, despite being previously correct. (some that were a little out of place and some that were waaaaay out), and then the test came. I was just browsing around the map of Alaska and looking at areas I'm very familiar with and noticed some markers that were in incorrect locations...even though they used to be correct.

Fingers crossed that Apple puts that update out by December 26th, since that's when I'll be heading up there!

EDIT: Scratch that part about POI's in Alaska being out of place. I did some followups by checking websites. The markers that were "out of place" are places that legitimately moved.
 
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MCKLMT said:
What’s the best way to report a error on maps? I live in a small town in France and one street is one way. Maps guides me every time in the wrong way.
I have reported it in Maps app but nothing has changed since...
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Since Apple does not own the data yet in France, it may be quicker to report directly to the source provider...TomTom??
 
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