According to a MacRumors report, Apple is apparently turning to the employees at its retail stores for help on its disastrous iOS 6 Maps apps; in an evident attempt to bring about some much-required improvements in the app.

The report, citing the information shared by unnamed sources aware of the proceedings at Apple, the retail stores are permitting their employees to jointly spend up to 40 hours every week in reporting errors in the iOS 6 Maps app and making recommendations for improvement.

Substantiating the MacRumors report, a Twitter post on ifoAppleStore said that "Apple retail store managers are asking store employees to report iOS 6 Maps app errors to help improve the database"; and that, thus far, the task undertaken by the employees is a "voluntary" effort;

The iOS 6 Maps app fiasco is an upshot of Apple's decision to do away with Google Maps for its latest iOS version, and bring on its own native app instead. Customers who have used Apple's native Maps apps have been widely complaining about a number of issues with the app, including data inaccuracy, distorted images, insufficient details, and wrong directions.

The uproar over the flawed Maps app has prompted Apple CEO Tim Cook to extend an apology for the reported issues, and also recommend the users to use rival apps - like Bing, Google Maps, MapQuest, Waze maps apps, or Nokia's map Web site - while the native iOS 6 Maps app is being improved.