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Every time I use apple maps, I almost get in a car accident. Today seriously shook me up, as apple maps re-routed 4/5 different times while i was on a 70 MPH highway. It told me to merge where I shouldn’t, it took me the opposite direction of my destination, and took me down tons of one way streets. The inconsistency of this app, is dangerous and careless of apple. Not to mention, it has no sense of direction even for the walking feature. The app does not know which direction you are pointing, and will likely take you the wrong way 8/10 times. Not only that, but when u start the trip, it doesn’t even start you in the right spot, and again shows you a different route to where your destination is. If you are not paying attention, this app will cause you to crash your car. Sometimes it doesn’t even say what exit to get off of, it just gives you an arrow? Apple maps makes sure that wherever you are going you are taking the longest way possible. It does nothing to avoid traffic and actually helps to build up traffic by steering all drivers to a route that has the most lights. It is clear that the creators of this app have no dedication to efficiency or correctness. It is lazy and honestly an embarrassment to apple, as most of their products and apps are very helpful. Use google maps, it will save you a lot of time. Get it together apple maps, it’s honestly gross.

Apple Maps was never a great navigation app in my experience: it constantly lags/crashes if your phone is in the sun for more than 10 minutes, the voice navigation waits until last minute to tell you to make a turn/exit and suddenly you find yourself at a crossroads: either miss the turn/exit and accept being late, or Tokyo drift your way back on course. However, any redeemable qualities it once had its now lost with the newest iOS update. One of the few decent things about the app was that it gave you 3 volume options for the navigation voice over (high, medium, low). Since the update, the ability to manage the volume of the navigation voice has seemingly been removed; instead, you now have 3 pointless options (on, silence, only announce emergency update). Jamming to your favorite song as you’re cruising down the interstate? Well, you better hope there aren’t any updates along the way because the navigation voice will violate your eardrums without any remorse, and now there’s no option to lower the voice without lowering your music too. It baffles me how they managed to make the app even worse than it was.

I would give apple maps a 5 star rating because it looks so sleek and clean around the screen on apple carplay or simply on your phone. I hate that when it suggests you to go on a “shorter and faster route” it takes you to a road that it out of the way and congested with traffic. Also, it is crazy to me that apple maps has been in the game for several years, beating competition, but has yet to put an option for police ahead. Lastly the most annoying and simply stupidest feature they have is to make illegal turns that cause people to get ticketed by police or they suggest a speed limit that is either 10 or even 20 miles over the actual speed limit of the given road. Lastly for them to assume that everyone has the peach pass or express lane is absolutely the dumbest thing ever lol. For instance, I do not have it and I got into the lane because maps suggested it, just to be back in traffic. So therefore I basically got ticketed for the stupidest mistake on apple’s end. Absolutely disappointed and disgusted in this. I immediately deleted apple maps and downloaded waze. The best map apps on the platform.