You can provide ratings and photos of places you visit to help other Maps users. Your ratings and photos appear everywhere you’re signed in to the same Apple Account.
You can add photos for a place, share your photos publicly, and edit them later. And if you’d rather not be asked, you can stop getting ratings and photos suggestions.
Here’s how to rate places and add photos in Maps on iPhone.
Note: The Apple Ratings and Photos feature isn’t available in all countries or regions.
Rate a place
- Start the Maps app on your iPhone.
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Tap a place on the map or a search result, then tap the Like button.
Note: If you don’t see ratings categories or the Rate button, you can’t rate the location.
- Tap the Like button or the Dislike button for the available categories. Then tap the Done button.
If you change your mind, you can edit your ratings later.
Add photos for a place
- Start the Maps app on your iPhone.
- Tap a place on the map or a search result, then tap the More button.
- Tap Add Your Photos and then follow the onscreen instructions.
- To upload your photos to Apple, you need to have an Apple Account.
Note: If ratings categories or the Rate button don’t appear, you can’t add a photo.
To credit yourself for the photos you contribute, tap Photo Credit, then turn on Show Credit.
Whichever photo credit option you choose applies to all photos you’ve submitted and continue to submit.
Share your photos publicly
Companies can use the photos you add to Maps in their own products and services if you allow it.
- Start the Settings app on your iPhone.
- Tap Apps, then tap Maps.
- Turn on Allow Photo Providers to Use Your Photos.
Apple says photos you share include location data, but not your identity.
If you turn this setting off, photo providers may no longer use your photos. (It may take a few days to take effect.)
Edit your photos for a place
Besides adding and removing photos, you can add or remove your photo credit and provide a nickname for it.
- Start the Maps app on your iPhone.
- Tap Places.
- Tap the place whose photos you want to edit. Then tap Your Photos.
- Do one of the following:
- Submit another photo: Tap Add Photo.
- Remove a photo: Tap the More Options button. Tap Delete Your Photo.
- Change your photo credit: Tap the More Options button. Tap Change Photo Credit.
All photos you previously submitted, and those you continue to submit, get the photo credit option you choose.
Stop getting ratings and photos suggestions
Maps may suggest you submit a rating or photo if you’ve recently visited a point of interest or taken a photo of it.
These suggestions use on-device processing and can’t be read by Apple.
If you don’t want to receive these suggestions, turn them off.
- Start the Settings app on your iPhone.
- Tap Apps, then tap Maps.
- Turn off Show Ratings and Photos Suggestions.
