Hi, Mark, Yes it does seem that my experience maybe unique. It sounds like others are experiencing some annoyances, but perhaps not as severely as I am.
I’m traveling right now, so can’t do what you suggest for a few days. But I will give it a try. My husband has often seen different behavior in Maps on his phone than I do so I didn’t use that as a benchmark. I’m also going to try to get directions from it a few more times while we’re traveling, if just so as to be able to give as detailed a bug report as possible. Again, thank you. Best, Donna Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 13, 2017, at 12:28 PM, M. Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Donna, > > Hmm! That's very interesting. I would wager that your experience is > somewhat unique. > > Donna, when you have time, do you think you could do the following? > > 1. > Make an encrypted backup of your phone via iTunes. > > 2. > Using iTunes, Setup your phone as a completely new device. > > 3. > After making one or two test phone calls, restore your phone from the backup > in order to retain all of your passwords, apps, etc. > > 4. > Then, give the maps app, another go. > > By the way, does your husband have an iPHone? If so, does maps behave the > same on his device? Finally, can you remind us of which device you have? I > can't remember. > > I look forward to your reply, > > Mark > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Donna Goodin > Sent: Friday, October 13, 2017 5:19 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Maps is positively useless under iOS 11. > > Hi Mark, > > It just doesn't work. I realize that that is vague, but it's the best way to > describe it. The spoken directions are nonexistent. For example, it will > speak the name of a road, but that's all. No Turn right, left etc. > Switching back and forth between overview and turn by turn doesn't help. > Sometimes it will speak a distance , like "in a quarter mile." But that's > it. No clue what's supposed to happen in a quarter of a mile. It constantly > repeats the phrase "Proceed to the route." Sometimes we're on the route when > it says that, sometimes we're not, so hearing that spoken over and over again > is just confusing. When I can figure out what the directions are, it seems > to choose very odd and indirect roots. Obviously I don't know what the > picture shows, but the spoken info, both that which I can get from VO and > that which is spoken by Maps, is just insufficient and incoherent. There's > all kind of crap on the bottom of the screen, like "restaurants" "gas > stations" etc. IMHO, they need to get rid of that clutter, and use the > screen real-estate so MAPs can do its primary job. In the last few days, > when we've tried to use Maps neither my sighted husband nor I could make > heads or tails out of it, so we ended up closing Maps and he used our old > Garmin. Pretty pathetic if you ask me. > > I should say that it's gotten really bad in the last few days. Prior to > that, I experienced the bug you described, but it was otherwise usable. It's > definitely gotten worse recently. > Cheers, > Donna >> On Oct 12, 2017, at 11:42 PM, M. Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hello Donna, >> >> Since Apple sent me a message, acknowledging the bug I posted to this group, >> a few weeks ago, regarding my issue with the maps app, I have been using it >> on an iPHone 6 S, daily. I must say, other than the issue I reported, it's >> been working extremely well. >> >> What is it about the app that you dislike? Just curious. >> >> Mark >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Donna Goodin >> Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2017 3:56 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Maps is positively useless under iOS 11. >> >> >> >> Hi all, >> >> OK, I’ve absolutely had it with Maps under iOS 11. This thing is so broken >> and useless that I can’t believe Apple even calls it an app. I thought I saw >> something a while back about rolling back to iOS 10. If anyone has that >> information could you repost it, or send it to me privately? >> Thanks, >> Donna Sent from my iPhoune >> >> -- >> The following information is important for all members of the Mac >> Visionaries list. >> >> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if >> you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or >> moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. >> >> Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. 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