I see there is now "favorites" where destinations I had previously bookmarked are listed. How do you add a new address to favorites?
If you have the address listed under a contact you'll do this:
- Tap favorites where you're seeing it
- On the bottom go to the contacts tab at the right
- Select the contact and the saved address
- Once the contact is showing on the map, tap the contact, and tap the top right corner tab and you'll see the option to add to favorites
What if the address is not listed under a contact? I Drive a delivery truck and the addresses I'd like to save I'd prefer not to save as contacts. I liked the previous IOS 7 maps feature where you could just bookmark an address inside Apple maps itself.
I believe if you manually insert the address in the text field on maps it will end up under your "recent" on that same tab on the bottom that I was talking about.
So it appears in this new IOS 8 maps there is no longer a way to "bookmark" an address.
Looks like favorites is the new bookmarks.
If you have the address listed under a contact you'll do this:
- Tap favorites where you're seeing it
- On the bottom go to the contacts tab at the right
- Select the contact and the saved address
- Once the contact is showing on the map, tap the contact, and tap the top right corner tab and you'll see the option to add to favorites
Once you enter an address and Maps finds it, select the pin. In the top right hand corner is a share icon. Tap that and it should give you the option to "Add to Favorites". It will ask you to select a name and that's it. It will now show up in the favorites list in Maps.
Instead of tapping the pin, tap the icon with the small car indicating driving directions.
I had 200 bookmarks that I created in maps by entering gps coordinates. The app was working great for me. After IOS 8 my bookmarks became favorites. Unfortunately, now when I select one of my bookmarks/favorites, it gets me near but not exactly to the original coordinates. Also instead of the pin displaying the bookmark/favorites tag name it displays the approximate street address. I can make a new favorite that is correct, but the old ones no longer work correctly. Remaking all 200 bookmarks will be a chore.