Apple’s platform for maps and directions, the perpetual runner-up to Google Maps, has improved markedly over the past few years. Here are the ways it currently bests its rival.

Google owns Waze and Google Maps, but the apps, while similar in scope, offer substantially different experiences. Waze ...

This feels like a more useful feature than the flight info in Google Maps and one that you're likely to use more often. If ...

Download maps for offline use in Google Maps to navigate in areas with low connectivity. Use Dark Mode for easier viewing in Google Maps and to save your eyes from harsh white lights. Set ...

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One of the latest updates makes Waze better than Google Maps on this increasingly competitive front: traffic reporting. Photo: Screenshot from YouTube video Enter Conversational Reporting.

Apple Maps supports incident reports, the signature feature that makes Waze so much better than Google Maps. Google has also added incident reports support to Google Maps after Waze made the ...

But in the age of navigation apps like Google Maps, there should be no excuse. If you want to find the right way to your destination quickly, you can get good guidance for free. But what about the ...