I have iphone 6 running IOS 9.x
- Iphone is suspended to air vent vertically, held there by magnetized holder. Car is a Toyota RAV4, for what that’s worth.
- I’m driving along on a freeway section free of ramps – nowhere to turn.
- Suddenly I get voice and screen prompts to “exit right on xxxxx street and turn left” This goes on for about two minutes, with a variety of street names, and turn commands.
- Finally, it gets back to the original route on the original freeway, and guides me there per usual.
If I were in an unknown city or neighborhood and this happened, I’d be up the creek, or at least confused. It happens on both Waze and Google Maps apps, both of which are at the latest rev level. I don’t get it with Apple Maps, but I use that infrequently. I use no other GPS app. I’m assuming here that Waze and Google are using the same database, algorithm or both.
GPS reception has never been a problem in this car; at least I’ve never gotten a notification that it was.
Hypothesis: Much of L.A freeway system is elevated. Could Waze/Google be “thrown off the scent” by something, default to surface streets, navigating like crazy, then suddenly snap out of it and revert to the freeway? Has anybody else seen this? Friends of mine running Waze have never seen it or heard of it before.
I’m mostly curious, but if it’s a bug you folks ought to know about it.
/john