How to Enable or Disable Avoid Highways in Maps for iPhone

How to Enable or Disable Avoid Highways in Maps for iPhone

The iOS Maps app has quite a few tricks up its sleeve, including a settings toggle that allows you to get directions to and from destinations while avoiding highways and freeways. This is particularly helpful for iPhone users that rely on the Maps app for directions and getting around, but it works on iPad as well. Getting Maps directions that avoid highways may be helpful for many reasons; maybe you dont like driving on highways, maybe youre trying to avoid a predictable traffic jam, or maybe you just want to use side roads and backroads. Whatever the reason, if youd like to enable the Maps feature to avoid highways its easy to turn on, and likewise if you enabled the avoid highways feature at some point in time and now want to disable it, its equally as easy to turn the feature off again. The avoid highways Maps toggle requires a modern version of iOS, if youre on an ancient version of system software you would need to update to have such a feature. The Avoid Highways capability is available along with a separate , you can toggle each on or off individually on any iPhone or iPad: You can confirm the change has been made by getting Maps directions to some location that requires the usage of a highway. The change also carries through to . Debatably, it might be more useful to have the settings toggle for avoiding highways (and ) directly within the Maps app, but for now you must be go the Settings app to toggle the features off or on as you see fit. The for iOS has a lot of interesting features, you can easily on a road trip, , , , , , and . Its worth pointing out that some users may be tempted to use the Avoid Highways feature for avoiding traffic routine jams, but dont expect it perform quite a good as something like Waze or another app which is dedicated specifically for that purpose. So while it may not avoid traffic, it will avoid highways, whereas if you want to avoid both (or just traffic) you may be better off trying an app like Waze for iPhone for such a purpose. Happy travels! And if you have any particular experience with the avoid highways feature in iOS Maps, share them in the comments below.