Universal Why is Apple Maps so freaking brain dead in CarPlay?

[AZhappyjack]

I've tried to use Apple Maps in CarPlay and find it mind-numbingly stupid. There is no setting to force the orientation of the map - either always north is up or the direction that I am traveling is up. Waze gives you that option. Google Maps gives you that option. But Apple Maps just wants you to use it their way.

There's no setting to auto zoom the map. If you want to zoom in or out, you have to manually do that. Of course, that draws your attention away from your primary task of safely driving your car.

Why does Apple Maps ALWAYS want to navigate back home? If I'm out running errands, I don't need it to always show my route back home. Of course you can manually kill that route, but again, it requires action on my part, instead of just letting me drive and following along on the screen.

I'm sticking with Waze. It's a solid app that allows me to navigate as I choose and doesn't try to make me do things their way. Once again, Timmy and his buddies have failed.

 

[Sheepish-Lord]

I can help answer the navigate back home issue. If you turn off significant locations in location services it will turn that off.

 

[Apple_Robert]

If you care about privacy, Waze is Google backed and controlled.

 

[bransoj]

I cant stand the way Waze looks....its like a kids cartoon GPS app. The user based reporting is handy so i run it in the background with Apple Maps over the top doing the main navigating etc.

I generally find that Apple Maps does a decent job of showing what i need to see how i need to see it and the only changing of view i do is to see the overview occasionally to see if there are any issues further down my route, see which way its sending me or checking alternatives.

 

[AZhappyjack]

If you care about privacy, Waze is Google backed and controlled.

Yeah, I get that... but privacy is pretty much a joke... everyone clamors for it, but the CIA, NSA (and foreign equivalents), Google, Apple and Alphabet all know almost everything there is to know about us, anyway.