Released yesterday, iOS 6 brought a number of improvements to Apple’s mobile operating system. One improvement is a brand-new Maps app that Apple made in-house – but unfortunately, users found a lot of issues with the app, or didn’t find anything at all, as some features were missing. Those that were there – like directions and the locations of various items – were likely buggy.
Luckily, Apple has heard its fans’ cries and has issued a statement regarding the missing or broken features:
“Customers around the world are upgrading to iOS 6 with over 200 new features including Apple Maps, our first map service. We are excited to offer this service with innovative new features like Flyover, turn by turn navigation, and Siri integration. We launched this new map service knowing it is a major initiative and that we are just getting started with it. Maps is a cloud-based solution and the more people use it, the better it will get. We appreciate all of the customer feedback and are working hard to make the customer experience even better.”
According to the AllThingsD report, Apple has put its Maps team on a lockdown until the bugs are fixed and features added.
I have used Apple’s new Maps app on my iPad already, and in my testing, I already found that there were more than a few bugs and “mislocations.” Hopefully the team at Apple will get everything fixed in a timely manner.
How has the new Maps app been treating you?
“Hopefully the team at Apple will get everything fixed in a timely manner.”
Fixing *all* the data issues is going to take a while. Easily months. Maybe years.
There’s already a Tumblr blog dedicated to the problems with iOS 6 maps: http://theamazingios6maps.tumblr.com/
Google maps is so significantly more detailed and useful. Apple better hope that their update to the map program makes it even a competitor to Google.
Need to fix more then that seems i got to uninstall apps and reinstall them to work. What’s up with that
https://twitter.com/God_Damn_Batman/status/248904309549436929
“The new iPhone map directions say I can get from a secret mideast prison to Gotham in under 4 hours. I don’t understand what the problem is.”
it’s amazing that apple was hell-bent on releasing their maps in this iteration of the os cycle itself. maybe they could have ironed out all its shortcomings first and give a later update or release it with the next ios upgrade. i’d say that is much better than having to hear from more than half of the iusers.
lols. Why can’t apple and google play nice? There’s no reason to start up a maps app in house, when google maps works fine.
Lol, love that tweet Paul. Made me laugh!
And of course they will fix it, but I wonder how long it will take.
“Apple is currently fixing the Maps app”…………i’m sure this will be their status for about a year or 2.
I prefer google maps on my old Tab, but so far I’ve only done two searches using the new iOS6 maps app and they both worked.
The “cloud” excuse bothers me, though.
Another Apple “New Feature” that is still basically in beta. Doesn’t that sound familiar? (Siri)
Biggest issue for me with losing the Google Maps app on apple is losing all my custom maps, saved and starred locations. Google allows me to create maps on my desktop very easily and then access them from a mobile device.
I’ve got so many maps that I have saved in Google that losing these would create a lot of grief in having to re-create. In this area alone Google wins.