There’s both a useful tip and a lesson here.
The tip: If you use Apple Maps on a regular basis, take a moment to fire up the Settings App and make your way to:
Settings > Maps > Driving & Navigation
Look over the page. Among other settings, here’s where you can tell Apple Maps to avoid Tolls and Highways. You can also enable the Compass on your directions page.
The lesson: Where to hide the settings has long been a decision for app developers and their choice might not always be obvious. For example, Apple Maps has a switch to turn Traffic on an off. That switch is embedded behind the info icon (upper right corner of the Maps main view). But the switches for Tolls are in Settings.
Bottom line, if you did not know to look, the Tolls switch would be difficult to find. If you go to the Settings search box (drag down on the main Setting page) and type Tolls, nothing shows up. So you are left to search the tree of possibilities.
Or, more likely, head to Google and find your answer there, as I did on this OSXDaily post.
I dont like the avoid tolls feature in Google or Apple maps, or even in Waze.
For long drives, certain alternative routes can add up in total time driven and its often cheaper to take the toll option.
Of late, what I have started doing is to use the Tollsmart app on iOS to look up alternative routes based on costs. There may be two tolled routes, one cheaper, but a few mins longer and I’d take it.
Both Apple and Google need to have features thats similar to Tollsmart, but even more advanced.
If there are 3 tolled stretches of roads on my route, calculate no-toll option to avoid each of those, and give me an option based on the cost vs duration estimates.
something like, driving from Point A to Point B here are 3 options:
1) No toll, 60 mins
2) $4.5 toll, 45 mins
3) $9.8 toll. 35 mins
If such alternate routes are given, in this case, I”d probably choose option 2, instead of just toll or no toll.
ps: imo, waze is suspiciously pro toll roads when routing (not sure of apple maps) than Google maps. Not sure if its possible that Waze can get a cut from Toll operators for pushing drivers towards tolled options. Once I had a total ripoff moment on Google maps where it showed heavy traffic on no-toll option, and I toll the tolled option, only to see normal traffic on the no-toll route 🙁
When you search for a destination and select directions, doesn’t the slide up card with alternate routes have that option as well? If you expand the card and see all available routes, there’s a button for driving options, and then there are two switches to avoid tolls and highways.
Doesn’t that do the same thing? If you enable the switch buried within settings, I’m pretty sure that only changes it to default to avoid tolls. But there most certainly is a switch within the app to manually avoid toll routes.
I find it to be pretty well designed as well, it doesn’t seem all that hidden. When you search for directions, you either accept the suggested route, or expand the card to look at all available options, and tap on a button that lets you get even more specific.
what they consider a toll is not necessarily what the rest of us think.
I was driving from CA to NM and went through Yosemite. If you’re familiar, you cut through the park (not the only way, but the fastest and most scenic by far) ..anyway – the toll in this case was the admission fee.
I don’t use the avoid tolls feature in Maps or Google Maps. I live in New Jersey. The toll roads are the fastest ways to travel. I would rename this feature the “take as long as you like feature”.
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