A Beginner’s Guide to Using Apple Maps on Your iPhone
While Google Maps may be your current go-to when you need a navigation app, it may not remain that way for long. Apple Maps is well on its way to competing with some of the best navigation maps out there, and it has tons of exciting features you could explore.
Since its release in 2012, Apple Maps has only grown in popularity. But if you don’t know how to use Apple Maps just yet, you’re in the right place. Here’s a handy guide to help you learn everything you need to get started with Apple Maps on your iPhone.
Browse Apple Maps Through Different Views
Before you begin using its many features, we’ll first look at the different ways you can view Apple Maps. There are currently four maps available:Explore,Driving,Public Transport, andSatellite. To switch through them, tap the top-right icon above the location button (it shows a map by default) and select your map.
Exploreis your default map showing you a detailed overview of towns, shops, restaurants, and everything else available.
Drivingwill show you details of roads and streets along with essential road signs.
Public Transportwill show you all the available public transport lines and transit services, along with their routes. You can tap on them for more information about a specific public transport.
Satellitegives us a fantastic satellite view of everything from above. The details in this view are uncanny, and one can spend hours exploring it.
Another cool viewing feature Apple has introduced is the 3D view for select cities. You can tap the2D iconin the top right corner to switch to a 3D view. For a handful of cities like New York and London, tap thebinocularsat the bottom left to navigate through a beautiful 3D experience of the city.
To know if you can utilize this feature in Apple Maps, checkApple’s feature availability pageto see if your city falls under one of the supported ones.
How to Get Directions to a Location and Add Stops
Now that you’ve got the hang of the different maps available, let’s get down to using Apple Maps. We’ll first look at how we can get directions from one place to another to reach it easily. Here are the steps you will follow if you want directions to a place from your current location:
You can also add stops to the route that you have created. Apple Maps will show you the easiest and most time-efficient route so that you can go to multiple destinations. Here’s how to add stops:
As you travel, you can help out other drivers byreporting accidents, hazards, and speed checks in Apple Maps.
Share Your Location With Your Friends
Congratulations, you’ve reached your destination using Apple Maps. Want to call your friends and family over? you’re able to quickly share your location with just a few taps, and they’ll be there in no time. If you want to share your current location, here’s a quick way to do it that you probably didn’t know of:
If you want to send a location while using the app, follow these steps:
Loved a Place? Add It to Your Favorites
You can add a location to your favorites to easily come back and visit later. Adding places to favorites is also useful if you visit certain points of interest frequently and need to get quick directions often. Follow these steps to add a place to your favorites list:
Create a Guide and Explore New Places
Guides on Apple Maps has to be one of your favorite features, as it serves as your very own virtual tour guide when you visit a place. It recommends new places you can visit in the area you’ve looked up, lets you add them to your Guide, and allows you to share them with your friends.
you may even save your daily travel route and find out all the restaurants and shops that you will encounter on your way. Tocreate and edit a Guide in Apple Maps, follow these steps:
You can add multiple locations to your Guide and check them off as you tour a certain place.
Pin a Location in Apple Maps
To mark your current location, you can long-press theMapsapp on your Home Screen and selectMark My Location. It’s as easy as that.
To pin another location on your Apple Maps, here are the steps you need to follow:
Make the Most Out of Apple Maps
The more you use Apple Maps, the more you discover that it is a gold mine of convenient features.
Exploring places in 3D view right in your palms, checking out cool spots, creating your own guide before traveling, marking locations, and adding favorites brush the surface of what Apple Maps offers.
And while you enjoy using Apple Maps on your iPhone or iPad, don’t forget that you can also use this excellent app on your Mac.
The stock Maps app in macOS is no Google Maps-killer, but Apple offers some cool features that make it stand out from the competition.
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