In the event you personal an iPhone, one of many hardest selections you will should make is whether or not to make use of Apple Maps or Google Maps for navigation. At one time, even Apple would have instructed you to make use of Google Maps over Apple Maps. That was in 2012 after Apple Maps was launched and a few nations had been mislabeled, some weren’t given a reputation in any respect, some instructions had been screwed up, and following Apple Maps’ turn-by-turn instructions might have been harmful to your well being.
Apple CEO Tim Prepare dinner not solely apologized, he instructed customers, “Whereas we’re enhancing Maps, you possibly can strive alternate options by downloading map apps from the App Retailer like Bing, MapQuest, and Waze, or use Google or Nokia maps by going to their web sites and creating an icon on your house display to their net app.” However now Apple Maps is simply pretty much as good and maybe even higher than Google Maps. One massive distinction in favor of Apple Maps: whereas Google Maps would possibly inform you to show proper in a 3rd of a mile, Apple Maps is extra apt to say, “On the subsequent cease signal, flip proper” which is less complicated to comply with.
Apple Maps is the default navigation app on iOS
Apple is planning on giving some iOS customers the choice to alter their default navigation app when iOS 18 is launched subsequent September. As Apple wrote in a “Non-Confidential Abstract of DMA Compliance Report” launched final week, “Apple additionally plans to introduce a brand new default management for customers in Settings for navigation apps. Apple goals to make this answer accessible by March 2025.” This selection can be restricted to these utilizing their iPhones within the 27 EU nations and is being pressured on Apple by the Digital Markets Act (DMA).
As soon as Apple provides EU iPhone homeowners the inexperienced mild to alter their default navigation app, we might see Google Maps and even Waze used to interchange Apple Maps. And there may be all the time the chance that Apple will enable iPhone customers in different markets outdoors of the EU, possibly even these within the States, to alter their default navigation app subsequent March.
