Apple ME178LL/A, MD058LL/A manual Showing Traffic Conditions, Finding and Contacting Businesses

Showing Traffic Conditions

When available, you can show traffic conditions for major streets and highways on the map.

Show or hide traffic conditions: Tap , then tap Show Traffic or Hide Traffic. Streets and highways are color-coded to indicate the flow of traffic:

Gray = no data currently available

Green = posted speed limit

Yellow = slower than the posted speed limit

Red = stop and go

If you don’t see traffic, you may need to zoom out to a level where you can see major roads. Traffic conditions are not available in all areas.

Finding and Contacting Businesses

Find businesses in an area:

1Find a location—for example, a city and state or country, or a street address—or scroll to a location on a map.

2Type the kind of business in the text field and tap Search.

Pins appear for matching locations in the area. For example, if you locate your city and then type “movies” and tap Search, pins mark movie theaters in your city.

Tap the pin that marks a business to see its name or description.

Find businesses without finding the location first: Type things like:

ÂÂ restaurants san francisco ca ÂÂ apple inc new york

Contact a business or get directions: Tap the pin that marks a business, then tap next to the name.

From there, you can do the following:

ÂÂ Tap an email address to send email to, or a web address to visit. ÂÂ For directions, tap Directions To Here or Directions From Here.

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Chapter 15    Maps