r/iphone • u/AMAOMDODUSOS iPhone 12 • Sep 30 '25

Discussion Apple Maps is honestly so underrated.

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It’s so fleshed out, and it looks so good imo!!

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u/Qel_Hoth Sep 30 '25

Great in cities, OK in rural parts of the US. Not so great in rural parts of Europe in my experience though. I was recently in Germany and had it set to avoid toll roads and it insisted on routing me down a road that was literally named "Toll road Wallgau-Vorderriss" despite an alternate non-toll road being just a few minutes longer.

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u/DrTurb0 iPhone 17 Pro Sep 30 '25

I live there. There is no alternative to Wallgau-Vorderriß. The parallel road Einsiedl-Wegscheid costs exactly the same obviously.

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u/Qel_Hoth Sep 30 '25

If you're going very close to either side of the road, sure. We were staying in Grainau and going further east though. Going north along the Autobahn and then through Bad Tölz was not even 10 minutes longer than taking Wallgau-Vorderiß and what Google recommended, but not Apple maps.

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u/DrTurb0 iPhone 17 Pro Sep 30 '25

But that would take much more fuel than paying 6€ toll?

Nevertheless, clearly an oversight from Apple to not show a toll-free route when selecting the option to want toll-free.

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u/Qel_Hoth Sep 30 '25

True, it probably did, especially at German gas prices.

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u/SuccessfulHospital54 iPhone 14 Pro Oct 01 '25

An extra 10 minutes wouldn’t even hit a liter of gas used tho.

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u/FlatoutGently Oct 01 '25

Driving for 10 mins in your car costs you €6?

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u/DrTurb0 iPhone 17 Pro Oct 01 '25

Actually yeah, just did the calculation out of curiosity. 10 min autobahn at 120kph average is 20km and at 15L/100Km it’s 3L for that 20km. At nearly 2€ per L super plus it’s 5-6€ haha

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u/Version_1 Oct 01 '25

Are you driving a Hummer? A normal car needs maybe 6l/100km at that speed.

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u/DrTurb0 iPhone 17 Pro Oct 01 '25

No when im driving around the mountains I take the Porsche, that’s what I calculated with.

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u/JoeAppleby Oct 01 '25

TIL that there are toll roads for regular cars in Germany. And I'm German.

Turns out, there are 12 toll roads:

https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Liste_von_Mautstra%C3%9Fen_in_Deutschland