Fix iOS 6 Maps With This Simple Setting
It won’t add transit directions, nor will it stiffen those melted roads which are draped, Dalí-esque, over the underlying terrain. But this simple, one-setting tweak will make iOS 6’s beleaguered maps app a whole lot more useful.
Go to settings and change the label size in Maps to “small.” The labels don’t actually get that much smaller, but they do become more numerous. Streets previously too narrow to be named now gain labels, and places in general are no longer drowned out by POI, or “points of interest.”
And that’s it. Thanks to Apple’s excellent new vector map tiles, the change is almost instant and doesn’t even seem to use any network data to make the switch. And thanks to these same tiles, zooming in and out is as fast and smooth as ever.
Go change this setting right now.
- Source TheRobbBlog
Charlie Sorrel sits in his gadget nerve-center in Barcelona, Spain, and spits out words about various weird plastic widgets while the sun shines outside his iCave. Previously found at Wired.com's Gadget Lab covering cameras, power cables and sneaking in as much Apple-centric coverage as he could, Charlie spends his rare moments outside perched atop a bicycle and snapping photos. You can follow him on Twitter via 
