Google Maps

What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

1. [R5] 5/5 · US MJB: Great map I like all the options and the major is the satellite view during navigation.
2. [R8] 5/5 · US Very helpful: We got lost in the middle of a storm while we were taking a walk, very helpful 5 stars
3. [R49] 5/5 · US Reliable: Helpful & informative when traveling
4. [R50] 5/5 · US Google Maps is the best: Excellence for getting where you have to go. It’s very convenient to use and navigate through. Thank you Google Maps for providing safe and accurate locations.
5. [R11] 1/5 · US Somehow gets worse each year: Even with all the feedback I give, the navigation keeps getting worse with: - dangerous right turns immediately after highway exits - not showing highway exit numbers - routing through road closures that have already been 'accepted' as a valid change
6. [R14] 1/5 · US Updates have made app worse: The recent updates have made the app worse and almost unusable at times. The "Dropped Pin" location is no longer accurate. And often can't trust the routes provided anymore. Used to be the best maps app available till developers began improving it.
7. [R15] 1/5 · US AI inclusion ruined core features: The addition of AI features (for what exactly? Who knows!) has nerfed core functionality. Want to switch apps while listening to music? Hope you like 4 second skips. Check Notification Center while using it? Hope you didn’t need Bluetooth connected! Classic Google problem of prioritizing new build over core maintenance. This time has finally pushed me over to A
8. [R28] 2/5 · US Very Glitchy lately: After one of the last updates, the app has been glitching to the point where I had to switch to Apple. In the middle of a trip it loses my location and starts giving directions from some random point miles away or it crashes and closes the app while I’m driving.
9. [R31] 3/5 · US untrustworthy: After all these years, still suggests illegal turns and nonexistent roads…
10. [R34] 1/5 · US This app has changed with the updates. It always wants me to make a U-turn: It’s illegal in my state to make a U-turn. The app is extremely slow and doesn’t know what direction I am supposed to be heading. Overall I am not happy with how it performs prior to Gemini. It doesn’t know where an address is and if I am stopped at a red light, it doesn’t stop repeating itself.
11. [R1] 1/5 · US Bad map: What's with your bad satellite imagery update? Why did you make the images faded and poor? Bring back last year's map, it was better. Are you progressing or regressing? · translated
12. [R17] 1/5 · US TURN OFF THE STUPID PHOTO BUBBLES: I CAN’T SEE THE MAP WITH THE STUPID PHOTO BUBBLES
13. [R23] 3/5 · US Bring back featuring the address on top: I love this app, I’ve used it for years. The only reason I’m writing a review now is because with the new update, they’ve hidden the address below and you have to scroll and search for it. I now have to search for it. I have friends who don’t use this app. “Sharing the location” doesn’t work if you don’t have the app. Stop making me search and lift up rocks
14. [R25] 1/5 · US Why?: What is with the bubbly shiny appearance? It looks like my young daughter got ahold of my phone, what was wrong the map looking like a map? The bigger annoyance, why can I no longer have the camera angle directly above the vehicle? It used to be a very easy adjustment if you wanted it directly above or angled behind, now it’s only 1 angled view. Not sure why such changes are made, you ma
15. [R64] 3/5 · US Keeps pausing apple music: Keeps pausing apple music for no reason. I don’t have voice navigation turned on. Very irritating. Fix it
16. [R87] 3/5 · US bugs: my favorite maps app but it makes my music glitch in my car now. very annoying and i’m thinking of switching to waze
17. [R9] 1/5 · US Update: Why does it not talk anymore during a phone conversation
18. [R30] 3/5 · US Needs Work: Calibration needs to be done for the sensor that detects speed limits because the app takes too long to switch over to a new speed- Apple Maps is faster at this. Also, please update so I can use my Siri voice as override audio because I don’t like the one Google has- it’s too sounds robotic to be helpful.
19. [R531] 3/5 · CA Stopped talking: This app stopped talking to me today. I re on it’s voice to guide me and am seriously frustrated now.
20. [R444] 3/5 · GB Good for routes (mostly): The routes are mainly good but it occasionally takes a short cut via a junction or road that’s not really safe. The lane guidance and speed limits are often wrong. Other than that the directions are good.
21. [R29] 2/5 · US Feature loss: Every iteration, more and more features are being lost. Most recently, I’ve lost the ability to search by a location I’m not at physically (aka the search nearby). I travel a lot for work and I used to rely on this app to search nearby, restaurants, attractions, and stores before arriving and now this is become impossible to use. Anytime I try and search. It resets to my current loca
22. [R84] 1/5 · US used to be better: navigation frequently routes incorrectly (just took us through a private ranch and insisted we drive through their gated field), difficult to search along route, gives inaccurate eta, takes several area searches to find areas of interest (coffee, food, etc). used to be better.
23. [R463] 3/5 · GB Search end navigation: I was in a real hurry. I was trying to search an address, and I couldn't locate the search edit field using the screen reader in iOS. It used to be so easy to search and find what you were looking for, and it's a real disappointment.
24. [R56] 3/5 · US New Update: Your new update is not economically great, need the latest update to show satellite imagery while driving.
25. [R78] 3/5 · US App is getting better but could improve: I like the accuracy and that they have their own reviews u like Apple Maps. The routes needs to be updated more especially for developing areas. In my area it’s already changed over the past 5 years but google is still using stale maps.
26. [R475] 3/5 · GB Out of date: Why are houses built 2 years ago only showing as a building site?!
27. [R20] 1/5 · US I wish there were better alternatives: Awful! I feel like this map app got worse. It gives you suggestions like “less traffic” “similar …”, don’t trust it!!! It’s all false!Don’t take them, don’t use google’s atrocious suggestions. Trust me bro. Also, if you take a rerouted suggestion, it restarts your option of cheaper/no tolls. Like it overrides your choice, and chooses for you as in pay $10+ i
28. [R83] 1/5 · US These 3-D maps suck: The 3-D maps are so glitchy and so distracting when you’re trying to drive. And the satellite map is not a better option. Google please provide a more basic option that makes it safe for driving and using your maps. I also hate the way. Google is always trying to make me go and express route that is maximum one minute faster that cost three dollars to take due to a toll. I wis
29. [R318] 3/5 · GB Sick of it lagging or locking up: Using iPhone 16 pro max so frustrating when looking up pins and then using google maps for location and it comes off or lags !!
30. [R368] 3/5 · GB Apple play: Google needs to do another update as it keep crashing and shutting down when connected to apple play
31. [R41] 3/5 · US Need MULTI TrIp tab: You should really have a multi trip tab for people that drive to multiple areas in a row. That way we can plug in multiple locations in a row we need to hit up and it would save them. Instead of having to do single trip inputs overtime we stop at locations.
32. [R564] 3/5 · CA Add red light camera alerts: Add red light camera alerts, like Waze has
33. [R33] 1/5 · US Glitch: ever since the new update my map glitches and won’t move when i open my saved
34. [R35] 1/5 · US Glitch: I updated the app but it still makes me stay in one place. It’s not my screen it is clean. Sometimes when I delete the tab and reload the app it fixes it but then it gets stuck a little while after
35. [R3] 1/5 · US Trash. BACK TO APPLE MAPS: Has been the worst maps in history. It’s back to Apple Maps for me
36. [R26] 1/5 · US Limited directions: I stopped using Google Maps since it won’t let me get directions for multiple locations while traveling via metro. This limitation makes the app unusable.