Mac Treat #130: Find Your Current Location

I’m the kind of person who thoroughly enjoys road trips, and since I’ve been surgically attached to using an iPhone, it has dramatically changed the way I travel. This past 4th of July weekend, I discovered something extremely helpful on my iPhone about half an hour into my five hour+ drive.

In the Maps app, getting directions are amazingly easy. I use the app a lot, and on this particular trip, I was trying out a new (scenic) route. I had stopped to get some refreshments at a quaint country store, and wanted to map my route from my (then) current location.

The “current location” finder is used in numerous ways across the iPhone, and though I’ve selected it frequently in the Maps app, I couldn’t find an option for it on the screen (since I had already mapped from home to my destination). I think that there are some scenarios where it’s not an option to click, but that doesn’t mean it’s inaccessible.

How to do it: Simply click on Edit at the top of the Maps screen, and by typing the letter “c” in the Start field, it will automatically give you “current location” as an option to select (just like it would be in your address book). Voilà!