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Map app
Raised as a usability problem by 15 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2012–2025), in 14 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Map app, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 15 complaints
- Page scrolling over the map unexpectedly zooms the map out to a dot2025-08-26
- Map renders partially and jams; swiping cancels and restarts downloads2025-08-21
- Must download the same country maps separately in each app2025-05-12
- Mouse gives no cue that the canvas accepts dropped icons; double-click pins icon to corner2023-11-27
- Edit and Confirm buttons do not appear despite documentation screenshots showing them2023-09-22
- Ads are huge on mobile and an extra ad appears below the footer2022-03-03
- Other map apps are unusable for navigating in China2020-09-01
- Printed maps come out at the wrong scale, so they're hard to use2020-03-23
- Stale search results persist after new search; Timeline toggling makes dots jumble with no loading feedback2019-05-10
- Users miss that the content scrolls and the breadcrumbs keep growing after going back2019-05-09
- Can't figure out how to clear an address through the UI2018-08-03
- Navigation fills top three quarters of phone screen, leaving little scrollable content2014-12-16
- Eye, green, and plus buttons have unclear meanings and feedback; a 'cart' popup appears with no cart2014-06-29
- Every map move adds a history entry, making going back very frustrating2013-09-01
- Existing map services have bad UI and lag, and making annotated maps takes ages2012-09-18