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>On my phone, if I type in the name of a store, it gives me the most popular store of that name in the United States instead of the nearest one, because I have
by ryukafalz 11y ago
>On my phone, if I type in the name of a store, it gives me the most popular store of that name in the United States instead of the nearest one, because I have wifi locaiton turned off. That's the only reason. If I turn it back on (I don't want it on), the results are sorted as expected.
I'm assuming you do have GPS location turned on, and that you're allowing location access on that page and waiting for a GPS lock before searching, correct? (And if not, how do you expect it to know where you are?)
- nandhp 11y ago> if not, how do you expect it to know where you are? IP addresses are usually enough to get to the right city.
- manigandham 11y agoNot on mobile carrier Internet, those can appear as very far from where you are
- CamperBob2 11y agoThey know what cell tower you're connected to, don't they? The original iPhone didn't have a GPS receiver, so this was the only way Maps could infer your location.
- lmm 11y agoMaps used to be much better at searching within the area I'd already focused on. Now whenever I search it seems to either search near my current location or zoom out and search my whole city. It makes it very hard to e.g. look for a bank branch on my route home from work.
- porker 11y agoThis 100x. I don't get it: if I've zoomed in the map or panned, and then make a search -- why isn't it obvious that I want the store closest to the area I'm looking at, and not one 30 miles away?