iOS 13 tip: add favorite locations and lists in Apple Maps

For lovers of favorite location capture, Apple Maps was not the easiest navigation app. In iOS 13 that has been improved a lot and you can create a collection of your favorite restaurants in no time.

Add favorites Apple Maps: this is how you do it

Save nice restaurants or places of interest at your holiday address, or build up a list full of hotspots in your hometown; ideal for doing this in Maps. This way you start navigation to one of your favorite locations with the push of a button.

Until iOS 12, such lists and favorites did not have such a prominent place in Apple Maps, while this is the case in Google Maps, for example. Fortunately, iOS 13 makes it much easier to use the standard iOS app to store your favorite places. You can save frequently used favorite locations as well as entire collections of, for example, the best restaurants in a certain city.

iOS 13 tip: add favorite locations and lists in Apple Maps

If you always want to be able to navigate to a specific location, it is best to add it to ‘Favorites’. These locations are located directly under the search bar with their own icon, so that they can be found quickly. This is how you add a new favorite.

  1. Open Apple Maps;
  2. Under the heading ‘Favorites’, tap the ‘Add’ button;
  3. Search for an address or location you want to add;
  4. Press ‘Done’.

It is also possible to search for a location first via the search bar. Then you can scroll all the way to the bottom and tap on ‘Add to favorites’. You can then go here to select ‘Remove from favorites’ if you want to remove the location from the overview.

This is how you add a collection of favorites

If you have a laundry list of hotspots and other locations that you want to visit or keep, then you better get started with so-called ‘Collections’. This new Maps feature lets you create lists and, for example, save your favorite restaurants, places of interest on vacation and addresses of friends in separate lists. This allows you to save many locations without getting a messy map. Creating a collection is very easy.

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  1. Open Apple Maps;
  2. Under the heading ‘Collections’, tap ‘New collection’;
  3. Give the list a name and press ‘Create’;
  4. Then tap on the collection and then on ‘Add a place’;
  5. Enter all the locations you want to add and hit ‘Done’ when you’re done.

By default, you will see both your favorites and collections below the search bar. If you tap on a collection, you will immediately see all these locations appear on the map and you can quickly choose where you want to navigate to.

Do you want to know what else you can do with iOS 13 on your iPhone and iPad? Check out our iOS 13 preview or watch the video below.

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