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It‘s #iOS26 launch day. I have NOT updated my devices and I WILL NOT do so for there foreseeable future. Most likely I will completely skip this release because I cannot read text anymore.

Yet, Apple Maps has become completely unreadable even on iOS 18 because now Apple delivers #liquidAss visual style Maps tiles and labels. The result is literally a blind map.

I‘m still flabbergasted how this UI and UX disaster ever made it beyond the “internal experiment” stage.

#onlyApple

Screenshot of Apple Maps where ALL location labels are just a white irregular shape without any text. This results in a completely blind map which makes the application useless.

Phil Dennis-Jordan

@pmdj@mstdn.social replied · last month

@span MacLemon For what it’s worth, I’m staying on iOS 18 for the foreseeable future as well, and my Maps app does not exhibit this issue right now. I’m not using dark mode in the daytime however, so maybe only that is affected?

MacLemon

@MacLemon@chaos.social replied · last month

@span pmdj Check the map view with public transportation display.

Phil Dennis-Jordan

@pmdj@mstdn.social replied · last month

@span MacLemon This is what I’m seeing?

A screenshot of Apple Maps on an iPhone running iOS 18. The view mode is set to public transport and centred slightly west of central Vienna, so that Wien Hbf, Rennweg, and Wien Mitte are most prominent.
Everything seems to be displayed as expected, there are no visual glitches on the labels. — A screenshot of Apple Maps on an iPhone running iOS 18. The view mode is set to public transport and centred slightly west of central Vienna, so that Wien Hbf, Rennweg, and Wien Mitte are most prominent. Everything seems to be displayed as expected, there are no visual glitches on the labels.

Jens Liebau

@jensliebau@mastodon.social replied · last month

@span MacLemon @span pmdj no crazy textlables like in your screenshot. Not in iOS18.7 not in 26RC - both look fine

MacLemon

@MacLemon@chaos.social replied · last month

@span jensliebau @span pmdj I‘m not offered an update to 18.7 (yet) so I‘m on 18.6.2.

The label issue depended on the zoom level and came in at multiple levels and went away at other levels multiple times.

It seems I cannot reproduce the issue this very moment anymore. So maybe someone at Apple actually changed something. (No restart of the Maps app or device on my side.)

Bfritz0815

@Bfritz0815@bark.lgbt replied · last month

@span MacLemon have you tried openstreetmap with it's mobile app?

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