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Comment by carlosjobim | Hacker News Reader

This app is essential if you're travelling in places with poor reception. Especially since Apple Maps do not work offline. Before you write your response telling me I'm wrong, put your telephone in airplane mode and try searching for a place in Apple Maps. You can't, it shows you a fake search field.

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Offline maps introduced in iOS17: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213829

which kind of suck, because you can’t download the whole country. It is obly possible to select rectangular area, not too big

I easily got northern New Jersey to past Washington DC in one. And you can download multiple.

You cannot search in the offline maps, only pan and zoom or show businesses nearby in pre selected categories.

Just tried this and it works for me.

That said I still love Organic Maps!

Now try searching in the Apple offline maps. It's a fake search field.

I just did and it worked.

Then it is device specific or country specific? I have a 3rd generation SE on iOS 17, with offline maps downloaded of my region. If the phone is in airplane mode, the search field in Apple Maps turns into a "Browse offline maps" field with no search function. In Organic Maps, the search function is always available (but a bit lacking).

My phone's set to en_US.

Quite possible that this is region/phone-language-specific.

Many things on iOS are these days: For example, "find things in images" (no idea how it's officially called, identifying animals and places etc.) is available in en_US and de_DE, but not de_US (which I've been using for a while).

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