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iOS users of Apple Maps or Google Maps: Why do you prefer one over the other? (lemmy.cafe)

submitted 1 year ago by Skyline@lemmy.cafe to c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world

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[–] matricaria@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

I always used Google Maps, but in recent years it became almost unusable. It only shows you paid ads.

Apple isn’t great either, but it’s better than Google.

I swapped to OSM, which isn’t perfect either but you can change the info and sometimes it even has better info than the other too.

[–] derf82@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (10 children)

I use google for most things, for several reasons:

Google seems to have more data. Hours, reviews, photos, including usually more recent and frequent street views. They also have pretty good live traffic data
Access to offline maps. Nice to have a backup when you have no service. As far as I know, Apple Maps doesn’t offer offline maps except for your current route.
It syncs with my desktop use of google maps, including custom maps.
Apple Maps sucked when it first came out. Left a bad taste in my mouth
For navigation, unless I need an offline maps, I use Waze. Not part of Google maps, but owned by google.

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