IOS6 Map App is a disaster !!
How can I get GoogleMap back ??
What a stupid move from Appe.
Bing Maps offers a very good maps service with Bird's Eye, a feature similar to Flyover. It's arguably better than Google Maps.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bing/id345323231?mt=8
You can use Google Maps by creating a shortcut to the Home Screen with help from the article below.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/09/20/how-to-get-google-maps-on-ios-6
MapQuest also has a very nice app available.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mapquest/id316126557?mt=8
Nokia Maps is another great service that you can add to your Home Screen via a web shortcut.
http://m.maps.nokia.com
Waze is another very well reviewed app.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/waze-social-gps-traffic-gas/id323229106?mt=8
Here's an article detailing how to receive Public Transport directions.
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/09/transit-apps-ios6-woes/?pid=3798
If you want a YouTube app, Google has made a very improved version available on the App Store.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/youtube/id544007664?mt=8
If you would like to send a suggestion to Apple, please go to http://www.apple.com/feedback or you can Report a Problem via the Maps app by tapping the bottom right.
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Maps App. a Disaster of iOS 6.0
Dear,
I'm using Iphone 4S & New Pad. I was really satisfied with Maps App ( Google ). However since iOS6.0 has been updated, Maps App (Apple) has been a disaster. I'm very very disapointed with this own Apple's app. This app is an out-updated and careless one i have ever seen. Do you think this problem should be listened and corrected soon ?
Hoang Tienmaps google via safari does not work as well and if driving it does not follow you and its so much slower then again.. apple maps is slow but maps are SERIOUSLY FROM 1900 missing so much information!
I'm just curious why is not anyone getting fired for this mistakes?
it's like you had mercedez benz service call asked you to come for upgrade for free of charge..
You got replaced with ship called Santa Maria with you been the captain christopher columbus..
every day is adventure since you are rediscovering the world since apple maps don't know where you are or what is around you?
Rumor goes that there is americas and indians have secret maps called google maps.. goal is to find them and upgrade your apple maps..
Only wish this was a joke... -
What happened to the " street view " function in the maps app in iOS6?
What happened to the "street view" function in the maps app of iOS6?
Gary ~ It's now available via a browser:
Street View for Google Maps web app goes live -
Looking to the community for a suggestion for the best replacement map app for my ipad2. I regret "upgrading" to ios6 when I lost the old maps app. I used it daily and had perfect functionality for my purposes. Now I wish I'd researched it more before I clicked '"install." Is there a google replacement coming soon with street view that works like the old one? Is apple working on fixing the existing app to include the features of the old app? So sad....wish I could go back!
I tried the google Maps app on my iPad2 but it looked terrible. Blurry when expanded to 2X, clumsy and not intuitive. Terrible for my purposes and way different from the old Google Maps app. Per International Business Times (12/13/12):
"While iOS users may be rejoicing at the return of their favorite navigation app, it should be noted that Google Maps has not yet launched for the iPad. The version currently available in Apple’s App Store is only for the iPhone, and Apple Maps will still act a the default Maps App on iPhones even after Google Maps has been installed."
Perhaps it'll look/behave better when an iPad version is eventually released. But thank you anyway.
Gonna try the EggMapsHD. Just wish there were some reviews out there.
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HT5429 Why has the maps app gone so sour in IOS6 can I revert to IOS5?
Why has the maps app gone so sour in IOS6.The images at any reasonable magnification are colourless and so fuzzy as to be useless.I loved my old Google based system which even allowed me to look into my house window from the street view function.I wish I had never accepted the invitation to upgrade to IOS6 I would like to go back tithe old system
Google and Apple have apparently parted ways in the 'bundled apps' area.
If you don't like the bundled map app, then your option is to look for a replacement in the app store. -
I updated my iPhone to the new IOS6 and my awesome Google map app was replaced with the sucky, horrible, awful Apple map app. I want my Google navigator map app back!!!!!!
I agree. I liked the previous map app. The version 6 app is powered by tomtom, I think. No more street view. I don't care for the new overhead view when dropping a pin. Plus, the current map app doesn't have the local points or data base that the google maps app had. Too bad I can't go back to the old map app.
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Does the new Map app under iOS6 not offer driving directions in the United Arab Emirates?
When I want the app to give me driving directions between two locations in Dubai, the app displays "Directions Not Avaiulable".
I sued the Google Maps app a lot under iOS5 for driving directions. Now I am literally often lost ....Hi,
You are here on a user-to-user message board and not in contact with apple representatives. If you have complains to do I suggest you do so through the feedback tool on apple.com
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I updated to IOS6 via WiFi last night, but my maps app did not change....HELP!!
I updated my IOS last night....couldn't wait for the changes to the Maps app. When all installed, the app didn't change and looks the same....HELP!!
The icon is similar (the same?) but the maps are vastly diferent. Most think much worse. Try it out.
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Issues with iOS6.0.1 and the maps app.
Hi! After upgrading to iOS 6.0.1 on iPhone 4, I am no longer able to display traffic on the maps app. My device with iOS 5.1.1, traffic still displays. Is there a fix for this issue? If not, how can I downgrade to iOS 5.1.1? Thanks!
Hey Chris, thanks for responding, in my above post I mentioned my troubleshooting:
Since updating my iPhone 5S (T-Mobile) to both 8.0.1 and then 8.0.2 I've had more issues than I've ever had with any iOS in the past (with the exception of iPhone 4 running iOS 7, but clearly that is an older phone, not a 1 year old model like the 5S). Have tried resetting, powering off, etc too by the way. -
I have an IPad2 and have been very happy using Google maps and the asssociated navigation. I also use Golfshot which relies on the embedded GPS. Will I lose all that with the latest software upgrade? Or can I have both?
Google map app has been replaced by Apple Maps in iOS 6.
I haven't updated my iPad 2 yet. iOS 6 doesn't add much for iPad 2.
Cheers, Tom -
What's all the fuss about iOS6 maps???
For starters, I'm not an iFan... My first smartphone was a BB and I used to swear by it. I found (and sometimes still do) that the iPhone was more of a toy while the BB was a professional tool. I still prefer the BB Bold's keyboard for typing emails than the iPhone's touchscreen keyboard. I ended up buying a 4S earlier this year (March) only because BB had no Outlook Exchange license available where I lived (Maldives) and it was either Android or iPhone, so the choice was clear there. Since then, I've come to grow quite fond of it and am quite happy with the integrations and functionality of the phone albeit it being slightly more time-consuming to send out emails.
The iPhone 5 launch event came out and I looked at all the details. Here's my conclusion: an extra row or icons, a slightly faster processor and most of all 4G. Now, I don't really need an extra row of icons... In fact, I sometimes find the 4S a little too long (jeans pockets along with a pack of cigarettes: cigarette pack usually loses and looks like it's been trampled by a herd of elephants...). So, I'm not in for a bigger screen as the current one's just fine. I never found my 4S to lack speed so I don't really care about the faster processor either. 4G? I love it! But I live in China now... It will be a while before it'll come out here, so why bother for the moment? It's complicated enough as it is as China Mobile (biggest network and best coverage, which I am also currently on) doesn't even have 3G for the iPhone. Only EDGE, but I make do... China Unicom offer 3G for iPhones but not as good a coverage... So, what to do? So in the end, a 4S with the brand new iOS6 update to me sounds better than going out to buy a new iPhone 5.
Update has been out for 3 days now. And before I went ahead and updated I checked the reviews, comments and discussions... WOW! It would seem Apple has opened the wraths of **** upon the world and that the Apocalypse is upon us when reading on about all the bugs and issues. And everyone goes on and on about the maps... It's made it onto CNN, BBC and just about anyone with an iota of grey matter and a keyboard. There are even comments mentioning that Asia is practically mapless with the new native app. I froze! No way in **** was I going to update if I was going to lose such functionality. I've just arrived here 2 months ago, don't speak a word of the local language, feel like getting an audience with the Pope is simpler than giving a cab driver directions and the Google Maps app has often been a lifesaver for me here so far... As much as I want to get my hands on the rest of the new functions, it was a risk not worth taking.
Today I bump into a colleague of mine at work and he's just updated his iPad (2nd gen) to iOS6. I tell him all I've heard about the maps and he brings it up to the restaurant for lunch. I'm scrolling through the new map app and honestly don't find much of a difference. Now, seeing as everyone is whining about the uselessness of the directions the new app gives, I give it a test. I search for the Park Hyatt in Beijing. The Google Maps app used to give me 3 different results. The new app gives me one result only, it's correct and gives me the right directions to get there...
So, what is all the fuss on the new update??? So Apple got rid of Google Maps... Yes, it'll take time to get better but Apple so far have usually managed to do a pretty good job at doing that. At first, everyone was complaining about battery drainage... Nobody mentions it anymore... Strange... Is this intentional Apple bashing?... From what I've seen so far, I still don't get what all the fuss is about.
I'm going ahead with the update... Will let you know how it goes!Hi,
What's the worst that I've spent 100 Eur alltogether for GPS map based applications for several sports - golf, bike, ski, etc. These applications use data from iPhone Map application and its disaster after my update onto iOS 6. These are pictures of 2 of my favorit golf resorts:
And here one example from a place where I use to bike:
Very nice, isn't it?
And unfortunately this problem won't disappear even when Google put stand alone map application into iStore.
So I have only way to downgrade to 5.1.1 immediately to not throw away money I already spent.
Ivan -
I have a tableView displaying a list of contacts from a Cloud Database. After selecting a contact, I push to a programmatically created MKMapView. Then I display the initial region (the view) that includes the users current location (starting point) and their selected destination (end point).
Now I want to display annotations (as described in the Location Awareness Programming Guide) that displays polylines which will represent the turn-by-turn navigation IN MY OWN APPLICATION, and not in the Map App currently used in IOS6.
Due to licensing and its becoming depricated in IOS 6, I do not want to get routing data from the Google Maps API. How do I get routing data from the IOS 6 Map App (powered by TomTom) so I can display the point-to-point annotations (turn-by-turn navigation) without leaving my own application?
I checked out Stack Overflow and other forums which basically left me with the impression that this is not possible. I also checked out the TomTom iPhone Mobile SDK User Guide from the TomTom Developer Portal and am still confused. It must be possible to retrieve routes, since the Map App can display turn-by-turn directions. How can I retrieve turn-by-turn data that I may display as a route within my own application?Thanks Michael. Apologies for the slow reply I was away for a bit (holiday blitz at work and visiting family madness etc.etc.) back now, I set both options you requested to "never " and retried the CMS software with no change.
I do have progress of a sort though, as a test I took a separate test PC and put a clean install of Win7 on and loaded up the CMS software (it worked perfectly) and then took the version of ole32.dll off that machine and put it onto the computer I had built
for her (using Linux) and...
got a new error code. Darn I was so sure I had found a clever solution this time lol.
Anyway now when the CMS fails it gives me a similar error but the offending module is "ntdll.dll" sooo... I tried taking the "working" version of ntdll.dll from the test box and moving it over (making sure to back up the existing ones
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ntdll.dll however seems necessary for Win7 to boot.
So what I am wondering now is:
Is there some way to have both versions of the DLL file in the system32 folder (bypassing the "cannot have two files with the exact same name in the same folder" thing) or rename the original DLL's something else and somehow make the CMS look for
the new named versions so the system has the updated DLL's it needs to boot/run and the CMS has the old ones it wants to run or is there someway to have a self contained install of the CMS, say on a USB flash drive and give it it's own E:/windows/system32/needed
dll's path to the files it needs?
Willing to try any other options or settings you may have come up with as well.
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Ios6 maps: Directions not available for India locations
Just updated to ios6 from ios 5.1 on iphone4
Built in maps app is not able to find any route/directions for Indian locations.
Tried a lot of permuataion, but every time it erros mentioning" Directions not availabel"
Although for US locations it is correctly showing directions
Let me know how to fix thisI should have never done the Grave mistake of downloading Disastrous iOS6. The maps are not working at all. Also, they have moved YouTube Icon from new version.I am using Iphone 4S.
If this was not enough, take a look at below link:-
http://www.apple.com/ios/feature-availability/#maps-directions
Do anyone of you know replacement for Apple Maps?
Thanks
Ankit -
IOS6 maps are useless, and other observations
Well Apple, I'm not sure what happened here - but it seems like you hired some engineers that must have been fired by Microsoft.
Seriously, your new map app is a COMPLETE JOKE, and is simply useless. Did you even bother to beta test it? Obviously if the product is THIS bad, it should still be in beta, and we should still be using Google Maps until you at least get Apple Maps *working*.
KEY ISSUES (and I know I'm not alone here)
1) Poor detail. Lack of street name.
2) Missing traffic data - you show RED bars only, while YELLOW is also very useful.
3) Crashes
4) Search feature does not spell check correctly or come up with similar local addresses like Google maps does. Frequently, Apple maps can't find an address at all.
5) Trip router is a JOKE. No way to skip freeways, and no transit inormation. Trip router will take the LONGEST WAY using freeways instead of a far shorter rout using surface streets.
6) Usability is lame - for instance, you do a search, then click the rouut trip button, and... the trip rout does not use the item you just searched for. If you want to update the rouut from your most currrent location, there is no edit button, and you have to cancel, and scroll into recents etc etc.
7) There is no separate tab vfor routed directions and searched.
8) S L O W
9) WRONG
Google Maps WAS the most used app on my iPhone next to Pandora. Now, MAPS is useless. By upgrading my iPhone to iOS6, I have degraded my iPhone and rempved some of it's most importantHi,
You are here on a user-to-user message board and not in contact with apple representatives. If you have complains to do I suggest you do so through the feedback tool on apple.com
Regards
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