How to make Google Maps your default iPhone navigation app (with one big caveat)

I'm an iPhone user in the European Union, which means I can benefit from all the perks that the European Commission has forced on Apple. I have access to third-party App Store alternatives, third-party payment systems, sideloading, and everything else the Digital Markets Act (DMA) imposed on Apple. But I want none of that, and I'm not actually using any of these so-called perks. I'm sure I'm not the only iPhone user in the region who wants nothing to do with these changes.

Also, I'm not too excited about replacing any of the default iPhone apps with alternatives, and I hate the very existence of the browser choice screens, which I have to go through every time I change iPhones. I say that as a tech-savvy user who knows I can install whatever browser I want on the iPhone. The same goes for all sorts of apps I'd want instead of default options, even if they don't behave like default apps.

I mention all that so you understand my rather conservative approach to iPhone software, but also to tell you that I've finally found the one app that I'd consider using instead of the iPhone's default. That's Google Maps, which can be set as the iPhone's default navigation app instead of Apple Maps.

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