Hi. I hope someone can help me out. Are you supposed to be able to get directions on the iPhone maps app from a starting point to a final destination announced in its entirety rather than just as driving directions, telling you to turn once you get to a certain point en route? I’d like to get a sense of where I’ll be going before I leave for a destination, not just as I’m driving or navigating to it. I hope I’m describing what I want clearly enough and that someone might be able to help figure out the maps app or direct me to one that will do what I want it to. Thanks for your time.
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Showing the route.
Hi,
If I'm understanding you correctly then I think this is what you need. First choose the destination you want or do a new search. Once done select it. Flicking should say 10 minutes driving fastest route or something like that. Select this. Then flick right and you should hear driving selected next to this is walk. Select walk. On this screen it may now say 40 minutes walk with a go button one flick to the right. Instead of selecting the go button select the place where it says 40 minutes. Then flick right you should hear start then after that it gives you what I think you want by flicking it shows each stage of the journey. HTH
Good to Know
Thanks for this. I, too, would like some more information about this app and I'm going to start working with an O&M instructor hopefully sooner rather than later who is on staff at the place I went for the 2 iPhone tutoring sessions. I'm rather confused with it. I've tried walking around in my apartment complex and just outside of it, and VoiceOver keeps on throwing all these street names at me. Some of them are familiar and some aren't. One afternoon just a few Saturdays ago I was trying to use it just outside my apartment front door, and I heard what sounded like an actual footstep coming from my iPhone. This was immediately followed by VoiceOver speaking the name of a street which I know for a fact is not near my building. So the app is very accessible for screen reader users; I just don't know how exactly to use it.
try google mapsq
Personally I will never use Apple maps. Tehy have no idea what they are doing and the voice is much easier to navigate then siri's voice. download google maps, you can still get walking directions as well.