Apple Maps

“the "drawer" on the left side of the screen takes up so much space in apps like Maps/Flighty that it covers the location you're currently at”

“Apple Maps comes to mind when it first came out, it took a while for it to become more.. complete.”

“Smartphone navigation is going to be a lot better (in my experience) and Google, Apple privacy terms are greatly superior.”

“Apple should never be trying to show me ads—targeted or otherwise—inside the basic functionality of their phones”

“it works good for the American market, but once you try it in other countries/languages the quality is not the same”

“Apart from needing to copy and paste destination addresses from Google/Google Maps every time I use Apple Maps, it's great.”

“I have had an occasional problem where a large building ends up blocking my view, but in general it's very good.”

“I've used it almost exclusively since around 2019, but that has been in the Bay Area and LA area where the data has presumably been very good”

“Apple Maps got really good at some point! I once pick it by accident for navigation, and never went back to Google Maps.”

“Apple Maps is nice but listings don't come up because they're literally not in the database”

“I find Apple's Maps directions to be slightly better, nowadays. They're more intuitive.”

“I find it a lot better in terms of routing and traffic than Google now (especially in the UK).”

“So now when I search “Ramen” I can be directed to the business who has the social media team and marketing budget”

“The last thing I want when I'm trying to figure out how to get somewhere is a bunch of sponsored pins and results”

“Good for navigation, terrible for up to date business information (opening hours) and reviews.”

“Apple Maps at launch was a debacle. It's present day Apple Maps I would be hard pressed to call a debacle.”

“I regularly use hiking and topography maps on my Apple Watch with the first party maps app”

“Apple Maps has gotten quite good, while Google Maps seems to just be rotting away.”

“Works fine. Once it led me to the wrong place because someone “contributed” that information to the map.”

“I use Apple Maps all the time if I can, it's just better at being a navigator, but the search UX sucks giant salty balls”

“their data on business listings and locations tends to be a little older than Google's”

“I prefer Apple Maps for walking directions, especially paired with the watch - the data is good”

“I changed to it for car navigation. It's a less cluttered interface and integrates better with voice control than Google maps.”

“The interface and the direction instructions on Apple Maps are way ahead of Google Maps.”

“I find the UI in satnav mode much better (cleaner and readable) than the one Google Maps has.”

“the Apple Maps native integration in the Apple ecosystem is far far ahead of Google's”

“I use it as part of Apple CarPlay for all my navigation and I think it's much better than Google Maps (for car navigation, at least)”

“I can remember the times like 2017, when Apple maps was as rocky as possible, but they were working fine in Shenzhen”

“It's gotten a lot better, but I still find the address database better in Google Maps”

“It's excellent at planning a route, but doing anything with that route, including getting back to it later is useless.”

“Both Apple and Google Maps greatly underestimate travel times on anything other than perfectly straight motorways.”

“I think Apple Maps has a pretty reasonable compromise here of transitioning from a globe to Mercator as you zoom”

“Apple Maps have been steadily improving, to the point they are as good as, if not better than, Google Maps”

“Even though Apple Maps was initially a failure I still came back to it every so often to see how it was progressing and eventually it ended up pretty good.”

“Everytime someone misses arriving somewhere on time, I ask -- were you using Apple Maps, the answer is always yes.”

“Hysteresis is completely broken - I stop at a traffic light and the map will jump back and forth between two resolutions”

“Apple maps told me to return to the route. We hadn't turned in 10 kilometers, but it was showing that we were 200 meters into a cornfield.”

“I actually like Maps for driving. I find the level of detail just right for how I use it.”

“this now seems to correctly set actual driving directions, even if I'd previously set up a walking route!”

“Ads are coming to Apple Maps so it's probably only a matter of time before the rest of the ecosystem is infected.”