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I want google maps to use my position data so that I know where traffic jams are in real time. It has saved me a bunch.

Apple Maps still sends people to strange places when you leave the city. (Apple Maps once sent us to the middle of a farm field, which was funny at the time, so I was glad it happened.)



Apple Maps has traffic jam data. For that matter, my DVD based navigation in my 10 year old car gets real time traffic updates.

Neither of them involve using my position data to let ads track me.

Additionally nothing stops you from using Google Maps on iOS, or Waze for that matter, another Google Mapping product renowned for good traffic data.

In any case it sounds like you would prefer tighter integration of Google products into the OS, and have no problem with them collecting data on you.

In this case why not just use Android?




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