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by dotancohen 1576 days ago

  > OSMAnd search is awful. For everything else it's pretty good!
I stopped using Open Street Maps because it won't turn off! I close the app, I close the notifications, but the damn thing keeps playing loud audio telling me directions when I've long since left the car and the phone is in my pocket.

Of course the inability to exit an app without restarting the phone is a failure of the OS itself, but OSM is the only app that this happens with. What am I doing wrong? How does one exit OSM?

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OSM != OSMAnd ;)

I‘m on an iPhone, so can’t check; but can you not simply stop the navigation of your route and then OSMAnd shuts up?

I'm sorry, yes, I'm using OSMAnd.

  > can you not simply stop the navigation of your route and then OSMAnd shuts up
Possibly, but my goal is not to just get the voice to shut up but to actually close / quit the app.
I suggest to raise an issue here: https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd