Create and share a collection of your favorite local restaurants or make a personalized travel guide for your next vacation.

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If you're planning a big trip or a busy weekend, you can use the Apple Maps Guide feature to create a list of the places you'd like to go, sort of like having a personal handheld travel guide. You can also save other important locations like nearby stores or restaurants, the airport, and hotels. When I travel, I like to use my guides to organize my trip, so I can plan to visit landmarks, shops, and restaurants in a specific part of the city on one day, and a different part of the city the next.
Related: How to Save & Share a Location from Apple Maps on iPhone & iPad
How to Create a Guide in Apple Maps
We've gone over how to save and share a location from Apple Maps, now learn how to save multiple locations in Apple Maps in your own personalized guide! Using guides also helps me to plan my walking routes, so I can spend less time traveling from place to place, and more time sightseeing landmarks. For more great iPhone tutorials, check out our free Tip of the Day.
- Open the Maps app.
- Swipe up on the gray card that appears over the map view.
- Next to the My Guides section, tap See All.
- Tap New Guide.
- Enter a title for your Guide and tap Create.
- To begin adding locations to your guide, tap Add a Place.
- Enter your desired location into the search bar. Tap the blue plus sign next to the location you want to save.
- Tap Done to return to your guide.
- To edit your Guide, swipe up on the gray bar at the top of the card.
- Tap the blue plus sign in the bottom corner to add a location. Alternatively, you can tap the share icon to share your guide, or tap Edit to make changes.
- You can also swipe left on a specific location to share or delete that location.
Now you can open your guide and quickly get directions to any of the locations with Apple Maps.
Occasionally, I’ll find a Guide where I’m interested in only one or two of the recommendations. In this case, I can tap the blue plus sign next to the destination and add it to one of my own Guides. Much like saving a favorite picture to a specific photo album, this shortcut allows you to only save locations you are highly interested in, which makes for easier reference down the line. Finally, if you're interested in learning a fun new way to explore in Maps, you can also learn how to view the interactive globe. And if you're planning a road trip, you can also learn how to change arrival and departure times in Apple Maps so you can find the best time to leave and avoid traffic.