This past Sunday my wife and I needed to pick up something in the Toronto suburb of Vaughn. I punched the address into Apple Maps and started to drive. But the route took us to Highway 407 which is a local toll road. Now I didn’t clue into that until we were approaching that road. And at that point we figured that we’d just eat the toll cost as it would have taken much longer to detour. Now what was weird about this was the fact that Apple Maps on my iPhone and my wife’s iPhone are set to avoid toll roads. So this should not have happened. But this post on MacRumors seems to indicate that this is a bug:
Since at least July 4, Apple Maps has failed to treat the privately-owned Highway 407 ETR in the Toronto, Canada area as a toll road, according to complaints from affected users. This issue is not limited to any particular device or software version, with users experiencing the problem across the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and web.
Since Apple hasn’t released a software update for a while, this has to be a back end issue. Thus one can assume that Apple can fix this easily whenever they decide to get around to it. Until they feel like fixing it, I would check any route that Apple Maps closely to make sure that you’re not routed on to Highway 407 when you don’t want to be.
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Apple Maps Bug Will Sometimes Force Users In The Greater Toronto Area Onto The Highway 407 Toll Road
This past Sunday my wife and I needed to pick up something in the Toronto suburb of Vaughn. I punched the address into Apple Maps and started to drive. But the route took us to Highway 407 which is a local toll road. Now I didn’t clue into that until we were approaching that road. And at that point we figured that we’d just eat the toll cost as it would have taken much longer to detour. Now what was weird about this was the fact that Apple Maps on my iPhone and my wife’s iPhone are set to avoid toll roads. So this should not have happened. But this post on MacRumors seems to indicate that this is a bug:
Since at least July 4, Apple Maps has failed to treat the privately-owned Highway 407 ETR in the Toronto, Canada area as a toll road, according to complaints from affected users. This issue is not limited to any particular device or software version, with users experiencing the problem across the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and web.
Since Apple hasn’t released a software update for a while, this has to be a back end issue. Thus one can assume that Apple can fix this easily whenever they decide to get around to it. Until they feel like fixing it, I would check any route that Apple Maps closely to make sure that you’re not routed on to Highway 407 when you don’t want to be.
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