When displaying an Apple map within my app, the standard and satellite types of a fully zoomed-out view of North America both display perfectly on the Xcode Simulator, but the hybrid type is very different. The hybrid map shows up as a image with a dark gray background, with the names of the cities in the correct places, but only showing a jagged red line for some of the edges of the continents. Zooming in does not help. If I can find a way to post an image, I'll do so. I'm running Xcode version 7.0.1 (7A1001) on OS X Yosemite 10.10.5. Within Xcode, my deployment target is iOS 9.0 -- the problem still persists if i switch to iOS 8.0. Haven't gotten to the point where I can run the app on an actual device yet.
Hybrid Map displays oddly in Simulator
Forgot to mention that all the types of maps displayed perfectly on the Simulator for this app under Xcode 6.0
I also get the same problem when I use the built-in Maps app on the Simulator.
So you've figured out that it's a problem with MapKit running on the simulator—there's not much more you can do. Maybe file a radar?
I plan to do just that once I see whether it's just me or if anyone else is experiencing the same thing. I did see a recent post that map zoom was not effective on hybrid maps past a certain zoom-in level and was wondering if it was related to that.
You should file the radar now, even if you later find out that the bug was your fault. That way they have as much time as possible to investigate the issue.
The Maps app now runs correctly, but my app is still misbehaving in the Xcode 7 Simulator. Here's a link (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33204222/apple-maps-why-does-hybrid-type-appear-odd-in-the-simulator-for-xcode-7) to a more-fully developed question on this subject I posted on Stack Overflow. I'm in the process of submitting the bug to Apple.
I've submitted an Apple Bug Report -- it's #23159862