You can find pins, places, guides, and routes in one place: your Places in the Maps app. Add your own personal notes—visible only to you—to saved places, or pin your most frequently visited places for easier access.

You can also save dropped pins and your home, work, and school addresses to Places. When you share a place, your note appears with the shared link.

Here’s how to add places and notes to your Places in Maps on iPad.

Save a place to your Places

1. Open the Maps app on your iPad.
2. While looking at a place card, do one of the following:
   • Tap the Add button. It turns to the Added button.
   • Tap the More button, then tap Add to Places.

You can also save dropped pins and home, work, and school addresses to Places.

Add notes to a place

Notes you add to a place are there to read any time. If you share the place, your note shows up as text with the shared link, though it won’t save to the other person’s notes for that place.

1. Open the Maps app on your iPad.
2. While looking at a place card, tap the More button. Then tap Add a Note.
3. Write something and tap the Done button.

Adding a note to a place saves the place to your Places.

Remove a place from your Places

1. Open the Maps app on your iPad.
2. Tap Places.
3. Do one of the following:
   • Tap the More button, tap Delete from Places, then tap Delete.
   • If you’re in the place card, tap the Added button, tap to deselect Places, then tap the Done button.

Removing a place from your Places deletes any personal notes you added to it.

See also

• Get transit directions in Maps on iPad
• Get information about places in Maps on iPad

You can set your home, work, or school address for one-tap access to real-time traffic updates, directions, and notifications, making your travel more efficient.

The address you set can be different from the one on your contact card in the Contacts app. If an address changes, you can update its details, or remove a set address altogether.

Here’s how to set your home, work, or school address in Maps on iPad.

Set your home, work, or school address

You can set a home or work address that’s different from the home or work address on your contact card in the Contacts app.

1. Go to the Maps app on your iPad.
2. Below Places, tap the Add button (you may need to swipe left).
3. Tap the search field and then enter the address you’re looking for.
4. Tap the address. Then assign it to a type: My home, My work, or My school.
5. Tap the Done button.

Note: Changing your home, work, or school address once you’ve been asked to sync Maps to My Card may mean you have to update it in Contacts, too. Read our guide, Add or edit your contact info and photo.

Change a set address

If your home, work, or school address changes, you can update its details.

1. Open the Maps app on your iPad.
2. Below Places, touch and hold the address you want to change.
3. Tap Edit Details and then do any of the following:
   • Rename the pin: Enter a new name in the Label field.
   • Assign the address to your home, work, or school: Choose an option below Type.
   • Move the location of the pin: Tap Refine Location on the Map. Drag the map.
4. Tap the Done button.

Remove a set address

1. Open the Maps app on your iPad.
2. Below Places, touch and hold the address you want to remove.
3. Tap Unpin.

See also

• Mark a location with a pin in Maps on iPad
• Add or edit your contact info and photo on iPad

You can customize a walking path to plan a hike, an exercise route, or a city tour. In U.S. national parks, you can browse hikes and filter them by length, elevation, and route type.

You’ll be able to save the routes, along with any notes you add, to access when you’re offline. While you build a route, you can reverse it. You can also retrace your steps with Out & Back, or close a loop.

Note: Not all features are available in all countries and regions.

Create your own walking or hiking route

1. Go to the Maps app on your iPad.
2. To select a starting point on the map, touch and hold any road, path, trail, or other place accessible by walking to drop a pin and tap the More button. Tap Create a Custom Route.
3. Tap other points along your route to choose a path and then do any of the following to complete your route:
   • Reverse a route: Tap the Reverse button.
   • Retrace your steps: Tap the Out & Back button.
   • Close a loop: Tap the Close Loop button.
   • Undo a point: Tap the Undo button.

   

4. Do one of the following:
   • Go to the starting point: Tap Directions (available near the start of the route).
   • Start turn-by-turn walking directions: Tap Go (available if you’re not near the route).
   • Save the route for later: Tap Save, name the route and add notes (optional). Then tap the Done button.

     Tip: To access the route and the surrounding map even when you don’t have access to an internet connection, make sure Download Route is turned on.

You can also remove a point by tapping a point, then tapping Remove Point, Remove Start Point, or Remove End Point.

Browse and save hikes

You need to be online when you search for hikes.

1. Open the Maps app on your iPad.
2. Make sure you’re in the Explore map, indicated by the Map Modes button at the top right of your map. See Switch to a different map view.
3. Search for hikes in [national park name] and then tap the search result.
4. To narrow down your choices, tap the filters, such as All Lengths or All Route Types. Swipe left to see more options.
5. Tap to open the hike, then tap the Add button.

   You can also do one of the following instead of saving the hike to your Places:

   • If you’re near the start of the route: Tap Directions to go to the trailhead.
   • If you’re not near the route: Tap Go to start turn-by-turn walking directions.

   Tip: To access the route and the surrounding map on your iPad when you don’t have access to an internet connection, make sure Download Route is turned on.

See also

• Get walking directions in Maps on iPad
• Use Maps on iPad
• Download offline maps on iPad
• Change how you hear directions in Maps on iPad

You can save a map of an area and use it when your iPad is offline.

Even without Wi-Fi or cellular service, you can view information like hours and ratings on place cards, get turn-by-turn directions for driving, walking, cycling, or riding transit, and see your estimated time of arrival. Selecting a smaller area reduces the size of the map you download, and downloaded maps update automatically unless you change your settings.

Note: Offline maps aren’t available in all countries or regions. Automatic Updates is on by default.

Download maps

1. Go to the Maps app on your iPad.
2. Do one of the following:
   • Touch and hold the map until a pin marker appears, then tap Download.
   • Tap your picture or initials next to the search field, tap Offline Maps, tap Download Map, then enter a location in the search field or tap Current Location.
3. Adjust the selected area, then tap Download.

   To reduce the size of the map you download, select a smaller area.

Downloaded maps update automatically, unless you change your settings.

Open or edit a map you downloaded

Any maps you download to use offline appear in your list of offline maps.

1. Open the Maps app on your iPad.
2. Tap your picture or initials next to the search field. Then tap Offline Maps.
3. Tap a map, then do any of the following:
   • Rename a map: Tap Rename, enter a new name, and tap Save.
   • Change the area covered by a map: Tap Resize on the image of the map, adjust the selected area and tap Download.
   • Delete a map: Tap Delete Map.

Control map data downloads

To match your data storage needs and preferences, you can adjust settings such as when to download or update a map.

1. Open the Maps app on your iPad.
2. Tap your picture or initials next to the search field. Then tap Offline Maps.
3. Do any of the following:
   • Download over cellular: Tap Wi-Fi Only and then tap to select Wi-Fi + Cellular.
   • Automatically update all maps: Turn on Automatic Updates.
   • Automatically delete unused maps: Turn on Optimize Storage.
   • Use online maps: Turn off Only Use Offline Maps.

Remove downloaded maps

You can remove downloaded maps to free up storage space on your iPad.

1. Open the Maps app on your iPad.
2. Tap your picture or initials next to the search field. Then tap Offline Maps.
3. Do one of the following:
   • Manually remove a map: Swipe left on the map and tap Delete.
   • Automatically delete unused maps: Turn on Optimize Storage.

See also

• Set up cellular service on iPad (Wi-Fi + Cellular models)
• Download languages
• Download, save, remove, and share podcast episodes on iPad

You can customize how turn-by-turn directions are spoken by changing their volume, voice, language, and interaction with your other audio.

You can change the default volume, or hear a different language or voice, and you can preview each voice before you choose one. Directions that start somewhere other than My Location show a Steps button, though, and aren’t spoken.

Here’s how to change how you hear directions in Maps on iPad.

Note: To use turn-by-turn spoken directions, your iPad must be connected to the internet, and Precise Location must be turned on. Cellular data rates may apply. See View or change your cellular data. Turn-by-turn spoken directions aren’t available in all countries or regions. Features for Wi-Fi + Cellular models require a cellular data plan and Cellular Data turned on in Settings > Apps > Maps. See View or change your cellular data.

Change the volume for spoken directions

1. Go to the Maps app on your iPad.
2. Get directions starting from My Location. Tap the Go button to begin following them.

   Note: When directions start in a location other than My Location, you see a Steps button instead of Go, and no directions are spoken.

3. Tap the Audio Control button on the map (for example, the Unmuted button) and then choose an option.

To change the default volume, go to the Settings app, tap Apps, then tap Maps. Tap Spoken Directions, then choose an option below Voice Volume.

Hear a different language or voice for spoken directions

1. Start the Settings app on your iPad.
2. Tap Siri and then change any of the following:
   • Language: Tap Language and tap a language to select it as your primary Siri language.
   • Voice: Tap Voice and tap to hear the different options.

Change how directions and other audio interact

1. Start the Settings app on your iPad.
2. Tap Apps, then tap Maps.
3. Tap Spoken Directions and then do any of the following:
   • Pause spoken word media for steps in the directions: Turn on Directions Pause Spoken Audio. When this feature is on, media like podcasts and audiobooks automatically pause as each step is spoken.
   • Play steps in the directions over the car speakers: Turn on Directions on Radio. (Supported cars only.)

Wake the display for steps in the directions

Your iPad may go to sleep if there’s a long stretch of time in your route when nothing happens. You can set the iPad display to turn on to see your progress.

1. Start the Settings app on your iPad.
2. Tap Apps, then tap Maps.
3. Tap Spoken Directions and then turn on Directions Wake Device.

See also

• Set up Maps on iPad
• Use Maps on iPad