How to turn off favorite routes in Apple Maps

The Apple Maps app on iOS 26 remembers your daily driving habits to help you avoid traffic jams and choose more suitable routes. However, users do not want the app to track and remember their daily routes. Here is a guide to shortcut favorite routes in Apple Maps.

How to shortcut favorite routes in Apple Maps

First, go to Settings and select Apps to access the list of applications on your iPhone. Now, select the Maps application to customize the map. Click on Location to continue.

In this new interface, we turn off the Preferred Routes and Predicted Destinations setting so that the Google Maps application does not save your travel habits.

Marvin Fry

Update 04 October 2025