Maps

You can plan trips that include stops for charging your electric vehicle (EV) and monitor changes in your charge while driving. You can set it up through CarPlay or a vehicle manufacturer’s app.

During directions, Maps keeps an eye on your vehicle’s charge and finds suitable charging stations along the route, and if your charge gets too low while you drive, it can offer a route to the nearest compatible charging station. You can choose a different vehicle when you get directions, too.

Important: EV routing is available on select vehicles and in select areas.

Features vary by country and region.

Your vehicle’s owner guide has compatibility information.

Maps can track your vehicle’s charge when you get driving directions.

Maps analyzes elevation changes along the route and other factors to identify appropriate charging stations along the way, and it shows real-time charging station availability for select charging providers and countries.

If you drive until your charge gets too low, Maps offers you a route to the nearest compatible charging station.

Set up EV routing through CarPlay

Set up EV routing in the Maps app with CarPlay if your compatible electric vehicle (EV) doesn’t require an app from its manufacturer.

Note: Your vehicle’s owner’s guide has the compatibility information.

1. Connect iPhone to CarPlay.
2. Open the Maps app on your iPhone.

Get driving directions.

1. Tap Connect (above the list of routes) and then follow the onscreen instructions.

Set up EV routing using a vehicle manufacturer’s app

If your compatible vehicle requires an app from its manufacturer, you’ll set up EV routing in Maps with that app instead.

Note: For compatibility information, check the owner’s guide for your vehicle.

1. Go to the App Store on your iPhone.
2. Search for the manufacturer of your vehicle and then download the app that supports EV routing for it.
3. Open the app, then follow its setup instructions.
4. Go to the Maps app. Tap your picture or initials next to the search field.

If you don’t see your picture or initials, tap Cancel next to the search field, or tap the search field, then tap Cancel.

1. Tap Vehicles, tap Connect Your Electric Vehicles, and then follow the onscreen instructions.

You can choose a preferred charging network for your vehicle.

Maps provides real-time availability for charging stations from select providers and countries, and you can filter your search by plug type and network.

Choose a different vehicle when you get directions

If you drive several vehicles, you can change which one Maps provides routing instructions for.

1. Open the Maps app on your iPhone.

Get driving directions.

1. Before you tap Go, scroll down in the route card.
2. Choose another electric vehicle, or if you’re driving a vehicle that doesn’t have an EV routing app on your iPhone, tap Different Car.

The Maps app helps you navigate the world around you, whether you’re getting directions to a new destination, exploring unfamiliar areas, or discovering local businesses. You can save the locations you travel to and from most, like home, work, or school, to quickly access directions.

Set your go-to addresses

By saving the locations you travel to and from most, you can access directions quickly.

1. Below Places, tap the Add button.
2. Tap the search field, enter an address, and then tap a result.

Assign it to a type—home, work, or school—then tap the Done button.

Immerse yourself in a place

Maps renders cities in sharp, true-to-life detail.

1. Tap the Exploring Map Mode button and tap Satellite. Then tap the Close button.

Pinch open to zoom in, and swipe up with two fingers to see the map in 3D.

When you see the Look Around button near the bottom of a map, tap it to look around with a 360-degree panoramic view.

Discover what’s nearby

In an unfamiliar area? Find nearby places like restaurants, shops, or services.

1. Tap the search field and simply start typing, or tap a category below it, like Restaurants or Grocery Stores.

Navigate with ease

Wherever you’re headed, and however you want to get there, you can get step-by-step directions.

1. Touch and hold anywhere on the map or enter a location in the search field.
2. Tap Plan or Directions, tap your travel mode (the Driving button, the Walking button, the Transit button, or the Cycling button), and then tap Go.

Not all features are available in all countries or regions, according to Apple.

You can use the Home app to make your smart home more secure by allowing a compatible router to control which services your Apple Home accessories can communicate with on your home Wi-Fi network and on the internet. Apple Home-enabled routers require that you have an Apple TV 4K or HomePod set up as a home hub.

For each accessory, you choose how much it can connect to. Restrict to Home lets the accessory connect only to your home hub, though that may prevent firmware updates or other services.

Configure your router’s settings

1. Open the Home app on your iPhone.
2. Set up the router with the manufacturer’s app on an iPhone or iPad.
3. On the Home tab, tap the More button and then tap Home Settings.
4. Tap Wi-Fi Network & Routers.
5. Turn on Apple Home Accessory Security and tap an accessory. Choose one of these settings:
   • Restrict to Home: The router only allows the accessory to connect to your home hub. This option may prevent firmware updates or other services.
   • Automatic: The router allows the accessory to connect to an automatically updated list of manufacturer-approved internet services and local devices.
   • No Restriction: The router allows the accessory to connect to any internet service or local device. This provides the lowest level of security.

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

1. Start the Maps app on your iPhone.
2. 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.

3. 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

1. Start the Maps app on your iPhone.
2. Tap a place on the map or a search result, then tap the More button.
3. Tap Add Your Photos and then follow the onscreen instructions.
4. 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.

1. Start the Settings app on your iPhone.
2. Tap Apps, then tap Maps.
3. 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.

1. Start the Maps app on your iPhone.
2. Tap Places.
3. Tap the place whose photos you want to edit. Then tap Your Photos.
4. 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.

1. Start the Settings app on your iPhone.
2. Tap Apps, then tap Maps.
3. Turn off Show Ratings and Photos Suggestions.