- Getting Started
- Touring Other Cool iPhone Apps
- Listening to Music with the Music App
- Finding Your Way with Maps
- Managing Your Health Information with the Health App
- Using Bluetooth to Connect to Other Devices
- Connecting Your iPhone to Other iPhones, iPod touches, or iPads
- Working with the Wallet App and Apple Pay
- Working Seamlessly Across Your Devices
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Finding Your Way with Maps
The Maps app enables you to find locations and view them on the map. However, the real power of the Maps app is that you can then get detailed, turn-by-turn, voice directions to those places. You can use these directions to drive, walk, or even take public transportation to the places you find. Maps monitors your path; when there are issues that might be a problem, such as heavy traffic or an accident, the app attempts to reroute you to a better way.
Generating directions with the Maps app is easy and quick to do as the following steps demonstrate:
On the Home screen, tap Maps.
Tap in the Search bar.
Type in the location you want to find. You can type in an address, a place name (such as Indianapolis Executive Airport), or even a description of what you are looking for (for example, coffee). As you type, the app presents a list of locations that meet your search. Keep typing until you see the location you want to find on the list; if it isn’t a public location, such as a business, you will likely have to type the entire address.
Tap the location you want to see on the map. The map appears and the location, or locations (if you do a more general search), for which you searched are marked with a pushpin. (If you found multiple locations, tap the one to which you want to navigate.)
To get directions to the selected location, tap Directions.
Tap how you want to travel to the destination, such as Drive, Walk, and so on. The options you see depend on where you are going and where you are. The app generates alternative paths when possible. The primary or default path is shown in dark blue; alternative paths are in light blue. You see a time estimate for each path.
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If you want to follow an alternate path, tap it. Maps re-generates the route.
Tap Go. The app shows you the part of the route you are on and announces what you need to do.
Follow the verbal or onscreen directions to start your journey. Maps shows you where you are on your route and what is coming next. As you approach the next step, such as a turn, the app starts to make announcements about what you need to do.
Listen for the app’s instructions about the next step and follow the directions you hear.
To get more information or find interim locations (such as gas stations or restaurants), swipe up from the bottom of the screen.
Tap the kind of service you need, such as Coffee (other options can include Gas Stations, Lunch, Breakfast, Dinner, or Restaurants). Maps locates services of that type that are “convenient” to your path and presents options on the map and in the panel at the bottom of the screen.
Swipe up and down on the list of options to review how far away from you they are and how much time will be added to the trip if you go to those locations.
To navigate to one of the locations on the list, tap GO. Maps reroutes you to that location. (After you arrive at that location, Maps prompts you to resume your previous route.)
If you don’t want to choose one of the locations and just return to the directions to the original location, tap Done.
If you move out of the Maps app, you can tap the blue bar at the top of the screen to return to it. When the next step in your path approaches, you see that step in a pop-up box on the screen.
Continue following the directions until you arrive at your destination.
Tap End Route to reset Maps.
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