How to add places and notes to your Places in Maps on iPhone

You can find pins, places, guides, and routes in one place: your Places in the Maps app. 

You can add your own personal notes—visible only to you—to saved places, or pin your most frequently visited places for easier access. Let’s look at how to do this.

Save a place

1. Go to the Maps app on your iPhone.
2. While looking at a place card, do one of the following:
   • Tap the “+” sign, and it turns into a check.
   • Tap the three dots icon, then tap Add to Places.

Add notes to a place

You can read the notes you add to a place at any time. When you share a place, your note appears as text with the shared link, but it doesn’t save to the other person’s notes for that place.

1. Go to the Maps app on your iPhone.
2. While looking at a place card, tap the three dots icon, then tap Add a Note.
3. Write something, then tap the checkmark in the blue circle. 

Adding a note to a place saves the place to your Places.

Add a pin to your Places

You can pin frequently visited places for easier access in Maps and CarPlay. They appear as icons in your Places and also under Pinned.

1. Go to the Maps app on your iPhone.
2. Below Places, tap  the “+” (you may need to swipe left), then search for or tap a suggestion. You can also drop a pin.
3. If the pins are for your Home, Work, or School, you can do any of the following:
   • Assign it to a type: Select Home, Work, or School.
   • Sync to My Card: Tap Add to Contact Card.
4. Tap the checkmark in the blue circle.

Remove a place from your Places

1. Go to the Maps app on your iPhone.
2. Tap Places.
3. Tap the three dots, then tap Delete From Places.

If you’re in the place card, tap  the checkmark, and it turns into an “+.”

(This how-to is based on my experiences and info on Apple’s support pages — where the images sometimes come from.)