Similarly, you have a different set of options you can choose for Transit directions. If they are turned “off,” highways and tolls will populate as part of your navigation and directions.
If they are active (showing green), you have now chosen to avoid tolls and highways. Choosing one or another will allow the maps app to know if you want to travel on highways and/or roads that require tolls. You now have a few options including Tools and/or Highways. On an iPhone, head to “Settings -> Maps -> Driving & Navigation.” The rescue team manager says that regardless of these features, it is best to leave a "trip plan" and tell people "exactly where you are going" to avert dangerous situations.Are you on the road a lot, or do you regularly use public transportation? Customizing both of these options can help Apple Maps navigate to the fastest way possible to your destination. After tracking their GPS coordinates, the team was able to reach them promptly. The report claims that without Apple's emergency SOS via satellite feature, the rescue team would've taken longer and more resources to find the two stranded women.
Yochim added, "It's the kind of thing that potentially may have saved their life." The call centre then contacted Northern 911 in Canada.ĭwight Yochim, a senior manager with BC Search and Rescue, the team that rescued the two women, told the daily that this was the "first use of the SOS (via satellite) in British Columbia," to his knowledge. They had no cellular connectivity but one of them had an iPhone 14, which they used to send an emergency signal to an Apple call centre.
After driving 20 km, they came to a "wall of snow" and got stuck. According to the report, the two women got lost because Google Maps directed them to a "partially plowed (ploughed)" road after the main road was blocked by an accident.
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