XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.mobile.android   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2024-12-27 14:34, badgolferman wrote:   
   > Andrew  wrote:   
   >> badgolferman wrote on Fri, 27 Dec 2024 18:01:02 -0000 (UTC) :   
   >>   
   >>>> Can other people on other platforms use Apple maps WITHOUT an Apple   
   >>>> ID?   
   >>>   
   >>> There seems to be an internet version available.  However unlike Google   
   >>> Maps I don't see a way to include multiple stops.   
   >>>   
   >>> https://beta.maps.apple.com/   
   >>   
   >> Hi badgolferman,   
   >>   
   >> Thanks for responding normally, as we can converse like two humans should,   
   >> interact instead of having to play those silly games the Apple trolls play.   
   >>   
   >> I keep around an iPad 10th generation WITHOUT an Apple ID just to test what   
   >> works and what doesn't work with the mothership - so I will test this out.   
   >>   
   >> Note that Apple *required* the Internet just to "activate" that iPad, which   
   >> the Apple trolls (like Alan Baker) claim they did WITHOUT the Internet   
   >> (which no longer shocks me that they're that ignorant or that they lie).   
   >>   
   >> On that tenth-generation iPad which has no Apple ID assigned to it:   
   >> 1. I opened Apple Maps (which was in the "Other" folder by default)   
   >> 2. Apple Maps first asked "Get Notified when Friends Share their ETAs"   
   >>     (Yeah, right. I think I can "Dismiss" that one, huh?)   
   >> 3. Then it popped up "Introducing Hikes and Custom Routes"   
   >>     (But there's no button to dismiss that one - just "Continue".)   
   >> 4. Now I am in Apple Maps where it says "Location Service is Off".   
   >>   
   >> However, even without location services turned on Apple Maps can route:   
   >> From: 100 Main Street, Redwood City, CA 94063   
   >> To: 100 Main St, Fort Worth, TX 76102   
   >>   
   >> Apple piously warned me "Getting There Safely, Be safe and pay attention to   
   >> your surroundings, Always observe posted signs and local laws", which, um,   
   >> I'm sitting in my office chair, so thank you Apple for worrying about me.   
   >>   
   >> Below that is "Add Stop" with a big fat blue plus sign "(+)".   
   >> So I add this stop: 100 Main St, Comfort, TX 78013   
   >>   
   >> It seems to have worked for me. But maybe I'm using a newer version of   
   >> Apple Maps than you're using (I'm on iOS 18.0 and it says 18.2 is ready).   
   >>   
   >> If this were Android, I know how to get the version of any app (using   
   >> Muntashirakon) but I don't know how to get the version of this Maps app.   
   >>   
   >> On iOS, how do we get the version of the Apple Maps app anyway?   
   >>   
   >   
   > The link I provided was to the beta desktop version. You had asked if it   
   > works on other platforms. I used Windows 10 and Google Chrome for that one.   
   > I didn’t see a way to add stops on that version, but maybe I missed it.   
   >   
      
   You think that Arlen/Andrew actually read what you wrote!   
      
   How cute!   
      
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