Hey guys, quick question. It it just me, or do you all agree that lately, the accessibility as far as navigation with Voiceover on iOS with the native Apple Maps app on iOS 26 has become, well... let's just say pretty Ohio at best! It's pretty bad! I am not one to like cooking others or complaining, but come on! I was trying, RN, to get driving directions from my apartment to a place here locally, and short of searching for the destination, past that point, I couldn't seem to figure out at all how to get dorections step by step. I wasn't trying to actually navigate there in realtime. I was simply just trying to get an overview of the directions I'd hypotheticly take, if I had wanted to drive the route. Never mind that the map view which took up a majority of the screen real estate kept causing "Voiceover, for some reason, to jump all over the place and not focus very well at all. No cap... this was a totally L! I finally just quit after about 10 minutes of trying, as I was getting major brainrot. Anyway, what are people using now for this type thing?... Waze? Google Maps? Something else? Or am I really just not that lit since I refuse to keep dealing with this Apple Maps crud.
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Re: Apple Maps
Honestly, I’ve never liked Apple Maps. The directions when I had used it was pretty sketchy and it used to always give me the wrong directions. When backpacking for a few years, Google Maps was my go too.
You surprised?
apple maps has been terrible, directions and now accessibility, I don't know why yall still stay sleeping on google maps in the U.s but it absolutely boddies apple maps.
Message for Jim
Jim, perhaps I am misreading the tone of your message, and if I am, I apologize, but why the hostility? I simply was asking a question. Secondly, when you say, "I don't know why you all..." How, with all due respect, do you conclude that it's all of us who keep talking about Apple Maps? To be crystal clear, I have had no need for a gps app for some time now due to certain lifestyle contexts. So, to be transparent, I had no way of knowing until now. I honestly found your message very unproductive when I simply came up here to ask a, what I thought to be legitimate question. I'm sorry if this wasn't the correct platform to ask, as a blind Apple user. I'm happy to take my question elseware, if I must. Again, I'm sorry.
Message for Stephen
Thanks for your response. Yeah, Google Maps is most likely what I will be switching to. The little bit I have played with it, especially as someone who is very proficient with Voiceover practically being a vet who has used it since the very very first iOS version which included it, I can tell you Google Maps seems to look a bit smoother. We'll see how it goes; only time will tell. :)
Apple Maps sucks
It's just... so clunky on iOS and when I tried it on the Mac, it was straight up not accessible. Made me laugh, Apple still think they're the best with accessibility... like, make your own apps accessible.
But no seriously, Google Maps is much easier to use, but it sucks at reading busses. If I use busses, then I use Moovit. But if I'm generally searching, sharing a location etc, Google Maps is the way to go.
Tech tip on replacing Apple Maps
For anybody interested...
You can actually completely uninstall Apple Maps, and replace it with Google maps as the default map/location/navigation application.
Download the Google maps application from the App Store.
Once Google maps is installed, go to settings, apps, and at the very top look for the, "Default Apps", button.
Double tapping this button will give you a list of applications/categories, if you have multiple apps per category, you can choose which one is the default. Go to Navigation, and switch it from Apple Maps to Google Maps.
Uninstall Apple Maps.
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