Contact what3words Support

by ToborThe8Man

Seriously, how hard can it be to make What3Words run in Landscape mode? This is coding 101 stuff, but apparently not for this app. A Map app that doesn’t rotate is not a map app at all.

I have a 12.9” iPad Pro with attached keyboard that I normally use in Landscape mode. Since the app only runs in Portrait mode, I either have to use it sideways with my head tilted 90% left (causing great pain), or unplug my keyboard, physically rotate the screen to Portrait mode, and replug/re-rotate when done, no thanks! If it ran in Landscape mode would be a great app, really - how hard can that be???

Please recognize that some of us run apps in Landscape mode, as this app is truly painful for iPad with keyboard

by Jrf1286

I was excited to learn about this app and tried it out on my home address, but was presented with something like graph paper where I could see the street names, but the houses were so unclearly marked that I didn’t know what “square” to click on. Click on one of the thousands of squares of the graph “paper”? This, in spite of having allowed the app to access my location. If this were the wilderness and I was lost, I suppose the 3 words might get rescuers to within a reasonable distance to find me, but this first experience leaves me utterly unimpressed. One star because “no star” is not permitted.

by Baseballbum

This app has great potential to get to a much more accurate location than normal GPS, but it has a couple of shortcomings that need to be addressed. First, if you decide to save more than a few locations you will have a hard time finding the one you want since there isn’t any way to sort them. They are just listed in the order you saved them. Until app makers like Apple add 3words to their contact app this is a problem. 3words could at least list them in alphabetical order using the name you set for the location. Second, the voice recognition is useless. I set 3 words to US English and it never locates the correct address. It always finds addresses that aren’t even in the US and the street numbers and names aren’t even close to what I am saying. One other small thing is when I copy an address from Contacts that includes an apartment number or suite number, 3words isn’t smart enough to parse out the apt or suite info so it can’t find the address. I have to edit it out myself manually. Since voice recognition doesn’t work, the app is kind of useless if you are in a hurry. It will also be much more useful if Apple and others add support to recognize the /// as a link so you don’t have to copy and paste the location.