

Maps usage outside of ratings and photos is not linked to your Apple ID. Ratings and photos you share are linked to your Apple ID to ensure a safe experience.

Your name won’t be shown publicly, but they are linked to your Apple ID “to ensure a safe experience.”Īpple makes it clear, however, that this is the only thing within Maps that it will be linking back to you. The rating card also allows you to submit a photo, but it’s worth keeping in mind that the ratings and photos you submit are not anonymous, at least not to Apple. For instance, retail stores will have “Products” and “Customer Service” while coffee shops and restaurants will include things like “Atmosphere,” and child care centres will have “Facilities” and “Staff.” Locations like parks may only have a single “Overall” category, while others will include secondary categories as appropriate. Tapping on the new rate segment will bring up an additional card where you can give either a thumbs-up or thumbs-down across one or more categories. From the Introducing Ratings and Photos screen that appears, tap Continue.Tap on the location to bring up the information card.Note that the feature isn’t automatically enabled, but instead appears to be opt-in. However, this also may simply be part of Apple’s more gradual rollout of the feature. For example, letting high school students rate their schools could quickly become a problem, and we could probably say the same for government services. To be fair, we can see a certain logic to some of these omissions. Nor did banks, malls, airports, convention centres, churches, schools, or transit stations. For example, looking around Toronto, we found that ratings were available for most businesses and parks, while other landmarks like the CN Tower and municipal buildings like Toronto’s City Hall did not offer any rating options. It’s not yet clear exactly what locations will be eligible to be rated, as the buttons don’t appear in all cases. and Canada have been noticing that the rating buttons have suddenly begun appearing for some of their favourite businesses and locations. It’s obvious by now that this is something that Apple had to enable on the back end, and this week users in the U.S. Despite the on-screen info card for “Joshua Tree National Park” showing thumbs-up and thumbs-down recommendation buttons, these options have remained missing even in the latest macOS Big Sur releases and Monterey betas. We actually got a hint of this back in April, when Apple spilled the beans in an image of Apple Maps running on its new 24-inch iMac. Apparently, however, it’s been successful enough in those markets that Apple has finally begun rolling it out in the U.S. It turns out that this was because Apple only launched the feature in other countries like Japan and Australia.
