About a week ago, I started experiencing problems with my iPhone Google Maps application. What would happen is it seemed as though the maps were not loading the surrounding area very well and would tile a certain block of the map. This gets mighty irritating when using the Google Maps app as a GPS while driving.

Well, I found a fix for it. A little complex, but here is what you do. Please note that you will need some type of SSH client to communicate to your iPhone through WiFi. If you need further assistance with this, search Google "connecting to iPhone through SSH." That will bring up some tutorials on how to connect to the phone.

• Locate the following directory on the phone: /private/var/mobile/Library/Caches/MapTiles
• Once there, delete or rename the following file: MapTiles.sqlitedb

That is it! What you are doing is clearing the cache that Google Maps uses. Something corrupted it, so as with any Apple products clearing the cache fixes those types of problems!

Hope this helps.

-Ken

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