Apple Maps Limitation?

DaveWT

Well-Known Member
I am trying to plan for a road trip on which I hope to use my iPhone 11 with Apple Maps rather than my aging Garmin GPS. I want to add stops into the route and start off OK. What I have been doing is put in the final location, add a stop and define that. This puts the stop AFTER my previously defined final location, but I can use the little bars on the right to drag the new stop into its final location. After only a couple of such locations, the little bars on the right disappear so I can no longer move new additions into place. I came at it from a different approach, trying to plan all the stops in order from the starting point. This way I can get far more stops in the proper order but even then, after a few additions, the little bars on the right disappear so if I later decided I would like to change the order of the stops, I am out of luck. Is this what others have found or am I missing something?
 

chas_m

Well-Known Member
Set the initial destination as the address of your first stop. Then add stops in sequential order, thus eliminating the needs for having to move them.

Adding stops is a new feature so you may be encountering a bug. Adding them in order will get around that until its fixed.
 

DaveWT

Well-Known Member
Set the initial destination as the address of your first stop. Then add stops in sequential order, thus eliminating the needs for having to move them.

Adding stops is a new feature so you may be encountering a bug. Adding them in order will get around that until its fixed.
Thanks Chas, That is clearly the better way to do it if you know all the stops you will want to make before hand, but sometimes in the middle of a trip one may suddenly think of intermediate stops it would be nice to make. A few is OK but if you exceed that number you are then out of luck to put them in the right place in the route. Alternately even if all the stops are in put in the correct order initially, one may suddenly decide to go to a couple of stops in a different order than initially planned and then there would be no chance to move them (beyond a few intermediate stops.)

I hope your optimism on getting this "fixed" proved prophetic. I have been spoiled by years of Garmin GPS use but that unit is definitely getting long in the tooth, so I would like to depend on the iPhone Maps instead.
 
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