You should utilize Apple Maps to plan a number of stops alongside the identical route. You possibly can add three, 4 and even 15 stops to your journey if you need.
Right here’s the way it works.
Learn how to plan multistop routes in Apple Maps
Apple Maps suffered from a tough begin upon launch in 2012, however greater than a decade of incremental enhancements modified the scenario. Apple Maps is now a feature-rich service, praised for its lovely design and accuracy. Not solely does it supply a extremely detailed portrayal of the world, its superior navigation options make it simple to get round. Its public transit integration was a lifesaver once I went to California for WWDC22.
Desk of contents: Learn how to plan multistop routes in Apple Maps
- Add a number of locations
- Seek for a cease alongside your route
- Pause and resume navigation
- Extra options in Apple Maps
Add a number of locations
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Navigating from wherever you’re to a specific deal with works a lot the identical. Seek for a enterprise, faucet on any location, sort in an deal with and faucet Instructions. You possibly can choose between Driving, Strolling, Transit (the place out there) Biking and Journey Sharing (with a third-party app like Uber or Lyft).
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So as to add one other spot, simply faucet Add Cease to seek for one other vacation spot. You possibly can reorder the stops by holding on the deal with on the proper and dragging up and down.
What actually annoys me is that there’s not a button to seek for a cease between the 2 locations from this display. If I wish to seek for a dinner spot alongside the path to Lancaster, I want to start navigation first. Fortunately, it’s simple sufficient to do throughout navigation.
Seek for a cease alongside your route
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From navigation, swipe up on the menu on the backside and faucet Add Cease. You possibly can seek for particular locations or broad classes like “ironmongery shop” or “dinner.” The search outcomes will present you the way far off your path they’re and the way a lot time it is going to add. I’ve observed it by no means exhibits lower than one minute, even when the cease is actually alongside the identical highway.
Choose a vacation spot and faucet Add. Your ETA and miles will change from the ultimate vacation spot to the subsequent cease. To take away any vacation spot from the queue, simply swipe up or faucet on the menu and faucet the crimson circle.
Pause and resume navigation
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Once you arrive at a center cease, you’ll have two choices.
Subsequent Cease will instantly resume navigation to the subsequent cease within the record; faucet this in the event you’re getting proper again on the highway (like in the event you’re choosing any person up or dropping them off).
Pause Route will quickly pause navigation till you’re prepared to go away once more. This can be a nice selection in the event you’re stopping for dinner or making a pit cease — your cellphone gained’t preserve the navigation display up whereas it’s in your pocket at a restaurant. The subsequent time you open Maps, faucet Resume Navigation and it’ll proceed to the subsequent cease within the queue.
General, this can be a very sensible implementation of multi-stop routing. My solely qualm is the search perform works otherwise earlier than and after you begin navigation — as soon as you have already got your remaining vacation spot up, you’ll be able to seek for stops alongside that route, however you must start navigation first.
Extra options in Apple Maps
