Google maps back on the iPhone soon?
How soon will google maps app be back on the iphone?
Apple refused to post the question I previously asked, apparently they didn't take too kindly to the way I described their new wonderful application Apple Maps.
There have been numerous posts about this.
Google Maps is not on the iPhone because of 1 or more of these reasons:
1. Apple has not approved the new Google Maps for iOS 6
2. Google never sent in the app for approval yet.
3. Apple is steering away from Google due to their strained business relations. Google did not want to release the Turn By Turn code / features for Google maps for iOS so that their Android products have an edge over the iPhone Google Maps. This is one of the reasons Apple developed their own.
To help improve maps, check out this article:
http://www.macworld.com/article/2010577/how-to-report-problems-in-ios-6s-maps.ht ml
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How can I get Google maps back on my IOS 6 IPad
How can I get the Google Maps app back on my IOS 6 IPAD 2. This new IOS 6 Apple Maps app is absolutly awful.
Any suggestion.
Apple wake up and smell the coffee and put Google Maps back in the Apps Store.It's still not known if and when Google Maps becomes available in the AppStore. This is today's story: http://www.macrumors.com/2012/09/25/google-has-not-yet-submitted-a-google-maps-a pp-to-apple/
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I hate the New Apple Map. The directions are confusing and do not continue by pressing 'next.' How do I get Google Maps back to my iPad and iPhone? Thank you.
Start Safari
Enter the URL: http://maps.google.com/#bmb=1
tap "Go"
Now that you have Google Maps up on Safari, tap the bottom center icon (box with arrow pointing to the right).
Select "Add to Home Screen".
You will now have a Google Maps icon on your iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch that will take you to Google maps.
There are other map services available. MapQuest, Waze, NavFree, OffMaps, etc... -
How to get regular google maps back on iPhone after ios6 "up(down)grade"
Hoping someone from Apple will contact me about this.
I recently downloaded the ios 6 (I hesitate to call it an upgrade at this point) and now my maps look like absolute garbage.
I would like Google Maps back, properly (not the web app). I've read about downgrading to ios5.1.1 on other forums, but apple does not support it, and I'm afraid of bricking my iphone, or loosing my data and settings that I've spent many months refining.
So, I'm asking you, Apple, to please figure something out for those of us who would like to go back in time and have the original phone we purchased. The maps app is absolutely useless to me at this point. If a solution is not given in a timely manner, I promise that my next phone and my next tablet will be an android (planning on upgrading both in about 1 year when my phone contract is up). I'm sure many others are also thinking the same thing.
I think it's absolutely insane that you would break people's devices and not offer to revert back to 10 minutes ago before we started the download. This kind of planned obsolesence will only create irritated customers who will switch to a platform that doesn't tie your hands up and take away features on a whim.
The only way to salvage your reputation from this flub is to fix it. NOW!ekimztom wrote:
Hoping someone from Apple will contact me about this.
These are user to user forums. You are not addressing Apple by posting here, and nobody from Apple will contat you.
If anyting , your post will be deleted as ranting and complaining are a violation of the terms of use you agreed to when signing up to use the forums. -
Apple maps has received a poor performance rating just after introduction of the iPhone 5. I am running Google Maps app on the phone. SIRI cannot seem to get me to a specific address. Where does the problem lie? Also can anyone tell me the hierarchy of use between the Apple Maps, SIRI, and Google maps when the app is on the phone? How do you choose one over the other as the default map usage? Or better still how do you suppress SIRI from using the Apple maps app when requesting a "go to"?
I have placed an address location into the CONTACTS list and when I ask SIRI to "take me there" it found a TOTALLY different location in the metro area with the same street name. I have included the address, the quadrant, (NE) and the ZIP code into the CONTACTS list. As it turns out, no amount of canceling the trip or relocating the address in the CONTACTS list line would prevent SIRI from taking me to this bogus location. FINALLY I typed in Northeast for NE in the CONTACTS list (NE being the accepted method of defining the USPS location quadrant) , canceled the current map route and it finally found the correct address. This problem would normally not demand such a response from me to have it fixed but the address is one of a hospital in the center of town and this hospital HAS a branch location in a similar part of town (NOT the original address SIRI was trying to take me to). This screw up could be dangerous if not catastrophic to someone who was looking for a hospital location fast and did not know of these two similar locations. After all the whole POINT of directions is not just whimsical pasttime or convenience. In a pinch people need to rely on this function. OR, are my expectations set too high?
How does the iPhone select between one app or the other (Apple Maps or Gppgle Maps) as it relates to SIRI finding and showing a map route?
Why does SIRI return an address that is NOT the correct address nor is the returned location in the requested ZIP code?
Is there a known bug in the CONTACTS list that demands the USPS quadrant ID be spelled out, as opposed to abreviated, to permit SIRI to do its routing?
Thanks for any clarification on these matters.siri will only use apple maps, this cannot be changed. you could try google voice in the google app.
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How can i get Google maps back on, i lost them with the ios6 update, the new maps are terrible
how can i get Google maps back on, i lost them with the ios6 update, the new maps are terrible
It's still not known if and when Google Maps becomes available in the AppStore. This is today's story: http://www.macrumors.com/2012/09/25/google-has-not-yet-submitted-a-google-maps-a pp-to-apple/
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I updated my software for my Iphone and my maps disapperead. New maps provided by Apple or of significantly worse quality than my previous Googke maps. How can I get my Google maps back?
This app does it well, including StreetView
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/ifindview-connect-to-facebook/id480510706?mt=8 -
How can I get rid of Apple Maps and Put the Google Maps back?
I wanted to know how to remove the Apple Maps and reinstall the Google Maps. The Apple Maps is a very inferior programme and not worth the space on the. Computer. It can't find anything. It's a complete waste of time.
So my original question is, how to get rid of it, and put the Google Maps back?CHances are google maps are never coming back as part of the bundled OS. Apple and Google seem to have parted ways (possibly has something to do with Google having their apps on other devices from other manufacturers but no one knows for sure)
Since preinstalled apps cannot be deleted, the most you can do is ignore the icon, shove it back on a back menu page (I have a 4th menu page on my iPad containing nothing but the bundled apps I consider worthless. I just ignore that page and never go there) and then put a shortcut to google maps on your iPad or find a third party map app you like better. -
The new maps application doesn't work. I want Google Maps back!!!!
The new maps application doesn't work. I want Google Maps back!!!!
Most of the locations and search are not shown.
choose to go by bus is not working:(
I'm totally disappointed because of that.Try doing a reset - hold down the sleep/wake button and the Home button together until the Apple logo appears, then let them go and allow the iPad to finish restarting. Then launch Safari and try to open a new tab.
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I inadvertently deleted my iPhone backup on my MacBook Pro. I restored iPhone to factory settings and then synced remotely with iCloud. However the error message repeatedly states:
iTunes could not back up the iPhone because the backup was corrupt or not compatible with the iPhone. Delete the backup for this iPhone, then try again.
Any ideas as to how this can be resolved please. Thank you very much.My wife's iPhone 5 would not backup, after upgrading to iOS 8. The "genius" at the Apple store succeeded in DELETING, the only recent backup of her phone so
recovery became more critical.
I followed all the procedures for troubleshooting it, but still it would try to backup and then stop due to an error. We particularly wanted to preserve some game data/history/progress that she'd been working on for years. This game (Dream Fish) would no longer open after the iOS 8 upgrade ... and the phone would not successfully backup, and so we had no confidence that it would restore from an older backup either. I googled for solution and found Phoneview and iFunBox. These apps allow you to see & access data files in the iPhone. Phoneview was too fragile and crashed when copying a file any size.
I found "iFunBox". iFunBox was excellent. I used iFunBox to recover her game data. It allows you to make a copy of data files that reside on the iPhone... and store them as a manual backup on the Mac.
And in the process I found 2 games that caused iFunBox to crash. The 2 games in question were not important enough to try to keep, so I deleted them from the iPhone.
So then, I had a manual backup of the important iPhone data, and had eliminated two game files that apparently had a conflict with iOS 8.
My next Backup attempt was successful. The iPhone with iOS 8 would now backup to both the Mac and to the Cloud.
Next I deleted Dream Fish from the iPhone and downloaded a fresh version from the Cloud. The new Dream Fish with no history opened in iOS 8.
Then I used iFunBox to copy my wife's Dream Fish data history from the Mac back into the new game.
Once the transfer was complete, Dream Fish would now OPEN and all of her progress was there and working like normal.
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How do I get google maps back so I don't have to use apples disgusting version of an attempt at a map
You don't. You can use Safari and go to mobile Google maps and after opening that, tap on the arrow on the bottom of the page and save it to the homescreen. That will allow you to use Google maps web app on the phone. There is a rumor that Google is working on a stand alone app for the App store however no one knows yet if it has been submitted.
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Apple IOS6 Maps a serious downgrade. How can I get google maps back!
Apple IOS6 Maps a serious downgrade. How can I get google maps back?
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