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iPhone User Guide

Add places and notes to your Places in Maps on iPhone

You can find pins, places, guides, and routes in one place: your Places in the Maps app. Add your own personal notes—visible only to you—to saved places, or pin your most frequently visited places for easier access.

👁 The Places screen in Maps, which shows a list of place categories like Pinned, Saved Places, and Guides. Below this, a Recently Added section lists viewed locations.

Save a place

  1. Go to the Maps app 👁 Image
    on your iPhone.

  2. While looking at a place card, do one of the following:

Add notes to a place

You can read the notes you add to a place at any time. When you share a place, your note appears as text with the shared link, but it doesn’t save to the other person’s notes for that place.

  1. Go to the Maps app 👁 Image
    on your iPhone.

  2. While looking at a place card, tap 👁 the More button
    ,     then tap Add a Note.

  3. Write something, then tap 👁 the Done button
    .

Adding a note to a place saves the place to your Places.

Add a pin to your Places

You can pin frequently visited places for easier access in Maps and CarPlay. They appear as icons in your Places and also under Pinned.

👁 The Maps app showing pins in Places and Recents.

  1. Go to the Maps app 👁 Image
    on your iPhone.

  2. Below Places, tap 👁 the Add button
    (you may need to swipe left), then search for or tap a suggestion. You can also drop a pin.

  3. If the pins are for your Home, Work, or School, you can do any of the following:

    • Assign it to a type: Select Home, Work, or School.

    • Sync to My Card: Tap Add to Contact Card.

  4. Tap 👁 the Done button
    .

See Edit a pin.

Remove a place from your Places

  1. Go to the Maps app 👁 Image
    on your iPhone.

  2. Tap Places.

  3. Tap 👁 the More button
    ,     then tap Delete From Places.

If you’re in the place card, tap 👁 the Added button
. It returns to 👁 the Add button
.

Removing a place from your Places deletes any personal notes you added to it.

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