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Re:Apple Plans iPhone for Japan With Tap-to-Pay for Subways by darren_ on Thursday August 25, 2016 @11:14PM (#12364054)
> as it now forces me to log in before doing anything useful.

It's still useful without logging in, searches and directions still work fine, they just have a big ugly prompt telling you to log-in. Just ignore it. The main functional things missing are stars, offline, and the personalized suggestion things that appear when you tap search boxes (which regrettably includes recent search history, probably the biggest thing missing from the not-signed-in experience).

(disclaimer etc: I work on google maps for iOS)

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Re:Apple Plans iPhone for Japan With Tap-to-Pay for Subways by dcw303 on Friday August 26, 2016 @12:09AM (#12364184)
> It's still useful without logging in, searches and directions still work fine

Interesting, this was the problem I was having, directions and/or directions from search results weren't working if I wasn't logged in. I just tried again and there's no problem, as you said.

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Re:Apple Plans iPhone for Japan With Tap-to-Pay for Subways by igravious on Thursday August 25, 2016 @11:48PM (#12364135)
> (which regrettably includes recent search history, probably the biggest thing missing from the not-signed-in experience)

You work on it, why not change that? :)

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Re:Apple Plans iPhone for Japan With Tap-to-Pay for Subways by NegativeLatency on Friday August 26, 2016 @01:48AM (#12364471)
Ever tried screaming into a deep dark well?
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