Move Around the Map

When you first open Maps, you’re presented with a map of either your current location or the last location you were looking at. Here are the basics of how to move around the map manually:

• Pan: Drag on the map.

• Zoom in and out: Pinch in and out.

• Rotate: Place two fingers on the screen and twist. To reset the view, tap the compass in the upper-right corner.

Set Map Views

You can choose a view by tapping the info icon to access the Maps Settings panel. Views include:

• Map: The Map view displays a drawn map showing roads, cities, and basic information (Figure 64). It’s usually the best view to use with cellular data, since it’s not as bandwidth-intensive as the other views.

  

• Transit: The Map view shows some transit lines (only in supported cities), but the Transit view shows even more, and emphasizes them, displaying routes, route numbers, and stops.

• Satellite: The Satellite view provides an overhead picture of the planet, and it can show road names and other information if you enable the Labels switch in the Maps Settings panel. Satellite view changes between day and night themes depending on the time of day.

Find Yourself

Wherever you go, there you are, but if you don’t know where you are, you are by definition lost! Here is how to find yourself in Maps:

• Zero in: Tap the Tracking arrow. Maps zooms to your location, which is represented by a blue dot.

• Orient yourself: Tap the Tracking arrow again to align your location on the map with the direction the top of your device is pointing.

  As the device rotates, so does the map, with a blue cone showing which direction you face. Tap the Tracking arrow to turn this off.

Find a Location

Once you’ve found yourself, you next want to figure where you want to go. Here are some tips for doing so:

• Search: Tap the Search box to open the Search panel. Tap a button under Search Nearby (like Food), then type something generic, like restaurant, or something specific, like JJ’s Diner. You can also type the name of someone in your contacts list (a contact appears in search results only you have an address assigned to that contact).

  Tap an item in the search results list to show that location on the map. Search results also appear on the map as pins, which you can tap to view more information (Figure 65).

  

• Business information: To view data about a business, tap its entry in the list or on its pin on the map. Numbered pins indicate multiple locations near each other—you can tap a numbered pin to narrow down the list to those entries.

  From the business information, you can add it to favorites, share it, get directions, call it, message it (if it supports Business Chat), view its hours, or visit its website, if those things are listed.

  When you view information about a business, you see its Yelp star rating alongside a sample of reviews if Yelp data is available. If you’ve installed the Yelp app, you can also tap Find Out More On Yelp to view the business’s full Yelp listing.

• Drop a pin: If you want to mark an unlisted location, you can drop a pin on it by touching the spot until a pin appears. Here’s how to modify that pin:

  • To adjust the location of a pin, tap it, tap Edit Location, pan the map to adjust the pin’s location, and tap Done when finished.

  • Tap the pin to view directions, share the location, and more.

  • To delete the pin, tap the pin, tap Edit Location, and then tap Remove Marker.

Create Collections

You can create collections of places, like favorite restaurants or places you’d like to visit on vacation:

1. Expand or scroll up the search box.

2. Tap New Collection.

3. Enter a name for the Collection.

4. Tap Create.

To add places to a Collection, return to the search box, tap the Collection’s name, and tap Add a Place. Search for places, tap the ones you want to add, and tap Done. You can also tap Add To while viewing a business listing to add it to a Collection.

Look Around

Look Around gives you a street-view-level view of the world, but for right now it’s only available in Honolulu, Las Vegas, and San Francisco. Try it, search for one of those cities and tap Look Around. Alternatively, if you drop a pin in a supported location, you’ll see Look Around as an option.

Tap Done when you’re finished exploring in Look Around.

Get Directions

Once you know where you’re going, you may want to know how to get there:

1. Search for a location or tap its pin on the map, choose it from the results, and tap Directions.

2. Choose from driving, walking, mass transit, or ride sharing directions.

3. Tap Go to receive turn-by-turn directions to your destination.

4. (Optional) Swipe up on the bottom bar and tap Details to view the directions as a text-based list.

5. (Optional) Add a secondary stop along the way by swiping up on the bottom bar and tapping Gas Stations, Dinner, or Coffee. Select your secondary stop and tap GO. Tap the blue bar at the top when you’re ready to navigate to your main destination.

6. When you reach your destination, if Maps doesn’t stop navigating automatically, tap End and then End Route.

Share Your ETA

While navigating, you can swipe up on the bottom bar and tap Share ETA to share your current destination and estimated time of arrival (ETA) with another person. Simply tap a recent contact from the grid to start sharing. If the desired recipient isn’t in the grid, tap Contacts to access your full contacts list.

The recipient receives an iMessage or SMS message that tells them you’re sharing your ETA with them, where you’re currently headed, and what time you’ll likely get there (Figure 66).

If the recipient is an iOS user, they receive iOS notifications about your ETA, as well as followup notifications if you get delayed. Non-iOS users receive SMS notifications instead.

To stop sharing your ETA, tap Sharing with X Person(s) at the bottom of the Maps screen to see the option to end ETA sharing.

Find Your Friends with Find My

Find My’s People tab (on the iPad, these tabs are in a panel in the lower-left corner) lets you and your friends keep track of each other. It’s split into a map view and a list of contact you’ve exchanged locations with. Tap a contact to see their position on the map. Tap Directions to open their location in Maps and to load directions to that person.

Here’s how to manage location sharing:

• Share your location: To share your location with a contact, swipe up on the People list to reveal Share My Location. Tap that, select a name or enter a contact name, and tap Send. You can choose to share for 1 hour, until the end of the day, or indefinitely.

• Ask to see a follower’s location: To request the location of someone following you (see below), tap that person’s listing and then tap Ask to Follow Location.

• Stop sharing your location: If you want to stop sharing your location with someone, tap that person’s listing and then tap Stop Sharing My Location.

• See who you’re sharing your location with: Go to Settings > Privacy > Location Services > Share My Location to see who all can see your location.

• Name a location: You can name a person’s location so you can more easily tell where they are. For instance, if your spouse is at work, you can name that location Work. To do so, tap the person’s name in the list and tap Name this Location. Choose one of the pre-made labels like Home, Work, or School, or tap Add Custom Label to create your own.

• Get notified: You can send a notification when you’re on the move or receive a notification when a friend is on the move. To get started, tap a contact and then Add under Notifications. Choose to either be notified yourself or to notify your contact. From there, you can choose to be notified or send a notification when the person arrives or leaves a location. That location can either be their current location or a custom one of your choosing.

Find Your Devices with Find My

Like the People tab, the Devices tab is split into two sections: a list of devices, and a map showing the location of all of your online devices. To begin, tap a device from the list at the bottom of the screen to show it on the map and reveal a set of actions:

• Play Sound: The function you’ll probably use the most is Play Sound, which plays a continuous sound on the device until you find it and deactivate the sound.

• Directions: As with the People tab, tapping this opens your device’s location in Maps and pulls up directions to it.

• Mark As Lost: Putting a device into Lost Mode locks the screen, sends you regular email updates on its location, disables services like Apple Pay, and displays your phone number on the missing device’s screen, if you like. Once you retrieve the device, you’ll need to enter your passcode to unlock it and turn off Lost Mode and you’ll need to reenter your Apple ID password to reenable Apple Pay.

• Erase This Device: As a last resort, you can elect to wipe all data from the device.