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Apple Maps is terrible at navigation anytime you get outside of just the largest metro areas.

There's multiple roads where it will tell you constantly to take a U turn while indicating a straight line visually.

It routinely lags weeks behind road closures.

It's lane suggestions are laughable at best.

I've driven many many miles around the US and Apple maps is easily a distant third between Waze and Google

I haven't used Apple Maps much, but Siri is a total dog pile compared to Google Assistant.

It really depends on what and how you use it. I know that's not saying a lot, but Siri is genuinely good at some things, and incredibly terrible at others.

I know the same can be said about Assistant, Alexa, etc.

That may be true only in the U.S. and a few other countries. I recall Apple said several years ago (maybe around 2017?) that it would improve maps in India. It’s 2023 and it still can’t find common addresses in major cities. Considering that Apple has repeatedly stated that India is a key market, is it the competency of the maps team that ought to be questioned?