While leaving civilization and never coming back may appeal to some people (hello), it’s not the experience most are looking for. Apple Maps can get you through a dead zone, but if you’ll be staying a while, you won’t be able to use Apple Maps to get back. Imagine you used Apple Maps to navigate to somewhere that doesn’t have reliable cell service (like, say, many national parks), then want to go home. This is, to put it lightly, a bit of a problem for a navigation app that’s been around for eight years. Without a cellular signal or Wi-Fi, Apple Maps turns into a brick - you can’t search for locations, find routes, or do anything useful. Since Apple seems to be focusing a lot on Maps (it got stage time at last year’s keynote, too), perhaps they’re also taking requests? Here’s my wishlist. Namely, some basic navigation tools that would let me get around easier. During the iOS portion of Apple’s WWDC keynote, it showed some amazing demos of 3D cities and AR transit directions, but amid all the beautiful features there were a few things missing from the stage and Apple’s iOS 15 feature list.
