How to change your home address in Apple Maps

Need to change your home address in Apple Maps? This tutorial shows you how to do it on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

If you use the Maps app for directions, then you likely start from your home address. And while the Maps app is smart enough to detect your location, it’s not smart enough to know you have moved to another address.

To keep the app up to date with where you live and get you those directions faster, here are a few ways to change your home address in Apple Maps.

Change your home address on Apple Maps

The Home address set up on your Contacts card is the one that Maps uses. So the simplest way to change it in Maps is to change it in Contacts.

On iPhone and iPad

1. Open the Contacts app and choose your card (My Card) from the top.
2. Tap Edit.
3. Go down to Home and enter your new address. If one isn’t set, tap add address and fill in the details.
4. Finally, tap Done.

On Mac

The ways and steps for changing your home address in Maps on Mac are the same.

1. Open the Contacts app and choose your card.
2. Click Edit.
3. Go down to Home and enter your new address.
4. At last, click Done.

Change it directly from Apple Maps

While the above method is straightforward, you can also use these steps:

1. Open the Maps app on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac.
2. Click the Home section under Favorites.
3. Now, hit Open My Contact Card, which will open your contact entry. You can update your new home address here. It’s similar to what was mentioned under the previous heading.

Quickly get directions to your home in Apple Maps

After adding your home address to Maps, when you tap it under Favorites, it will show your home on the map, and with another tap, you can get directions to your place.

In addition to that, you can also follow these steps:

1. Open the Maps app on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac.
2. Type Home in the search bar and select Home from the suggestions.
3. You can now get directions for your Home. In the Maps app on Mac, you also get the option to Create Route from your Home to someplace else.

Note: Even after adding or updating your home address to your contact card, it may not appear in Apple Maps, and you will see that the Home option under Favorites is still empty, showing the “Add” text. This is mostly because of iOS bugs or glitches. Restarting your iPhone and updating it should fix the problem.

More tips for Maps:

• How to use Apple Maps Flyover to see the world on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac
• How to download custom regions on Apple Maps to navigate offline on your iPhone
• How to send a place in Google Maps from your computer to your iPhone or Android phone