Apple Maps expands Look Around to four more US cities

Apple this week rolled out the Apple Maps Look Around feature in Denver, Detroit, Miami and Fort Lauderdale, giving users a customized street level view of each city.

Quietly announced in an update to Apple's feature availability website, the new Look Around locations provide detailed imagery captured along major thoroughfares and side streets.

Released alongside iOS 13 last year, Look Around incorporates high quality photographs with smooth animations and native Maps integration to challenge Google's Street View. Unlike the Google option, however, Look Around availability is extremely limited and expansions to the service are slow going.

Apple launched the feature in select cities and subsequently branched out to other densely populated metro areas. In October, Phoenix, Ariz., gained Look Around support following a debut in the UK and Ireland.

Look Around is available in 17 cities worldwide, most of which are located in the U.S. Beyond the UK, Ireland and Scotland, Japan is the only other international locale to benefit from the feature.

15 Comments

NorthernKiddo 1 comment · 4 Years

About 3 years ago

Look Around is available all over Canada. Not sure if it’s to the same extent that the few big American cities are covered, but it’s pretty decent.
**just checked, and in Alberta, Canada, the cities of Edmonton, Calgary, and most small towns seem to be covered by Look Around.

ivanh 596 comments · 12 Years

what’s the point to the rest of the world?

skippingrock 199 comments · 19 Years

NorthernKiddo said:

Look Around is available all over Canada. Not sure if it’s to the same extent that the few big American cities are covered, but it’s pretty decent.
**just checked, and in Alberta, Canada, the cities of Edmonton, Calgary, and most small towns seem to be covered by Look Around.

AppleInsider said:

Apple this week rolled out the Apple Maps Look Around feature in Denver, Detroit, Miami and Fort Lauderdale, giving users a customized street level view of each city.

Look Around is available in 17 cities worldwide, most of which are located in the U.S. Beyond the UK, Ireland and Scotland, Japan is the only other international locale to benefit from the feature.

Umm… @AppleInsider as @NortherKiddo mentioned look around is pretty much located everywhere in Canada. Including the highways between cities. You can drive the Ice Fields Parkway from Jasper to Banff, stroll the beaches of the Okanagan, do the Robson Street walk in Greater Vancouver, check out the sites in Victoria, see the Prairies of Saskatchewan and the lakes of Manitoba and see the far reaches of Newfoundland and Labrador and the best places to get Donars in Halifax and Poutine in Québec City!

I checked the images from Victoria and it looks like they are from the Summer of 2019.

So Canada is way ahead in coverage!