Save favorite places in Maps on iPhone

In the Maps app , you can save places—such as your home, your work, and where you go for coffee—to your favorites list. You can quickly find your favorites on the search card.

A map of a park, and four favorites shown at the bottom of the screen. The favorites are Home, Work, Transit, and Coffee.

Tip: To make Home and Work automatically appear as favorites, add your work and home addresses to My Card in Contacts.

Add a place to your favorites

In the row of Favorites on the search card, tap .
If you don’t see , swipe the Favorites row left.
Do one of the following:
- Choose a suggestion below the search field.
- Enter a place or address in the search field, then choose a search result.

You can also tap a place on a map or a search result in Maps, tap (to the right of the directions button on the place card), then tap Add to Favorites.

Quickly find your favorites

A row of Favorites appears near the top of the search card.

To see more, swipe the row left, or tap More above the row.

Edit a favorite

On the search card, tap More above the row of favorites.
Tap next to the favorite.
Depending on the location, you may be able to make the following changes:
- Rename the favorite: Tap the title, then enter a new name.
- Change the address: Tap the address, then tap Open Contact Card.
- Delete the location from your favorites list: Tap Remove Favorite.
- Change the label: Tap a label type.
- Tell someone your ETA: Tap Add Person, then choose one or more suggested contacts, or search for a contact. Whenever you start turn-by-turn navigation to this location, the person automatically receives a notification about your estimated time of arrival (ETA). See Share your estimated time of arrival (ETA).
Tap Done.

Refine your home or work location

If Maps isn’t precisely locating your home or work place, you can help improve directions to and from your home or work by correcting the location.

On the search card, tap More above the row of favorites, then tap next to Home or Work.
Tap Refine Location on Map, drag the map to move the marker over the correct location, then tap Done.

Delete a place from your favorites

On the search card, tap More above the row of favorites, then swipe the item left.

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