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How to create routes and add stops in Apple Maps

6 months ago

How to create routes and add stops in Apple Maps

Being able to map out your entire drive beforehand, with estimated travel times and future course changes, is a powerful addition to an already handy app. Here's how to create a multi-stop route in the latest version of Apple Maps.

By Damien Lavizzo | 6 months ago

How to find local points of interest using map apps in iOS 16

9 months ago

How to find local points of interest using map apps in iOS 16

If you're on a well-earned vacation, moving home, or embarking as a digital nomad, you need to know where things are in a new city quickly. Here's how to use mapping apps in iOS 16 to find out what's near your location.

By Malcolm Owen | 9 months ago

Apple Maps could serve advertising to users in 2023

9 months ago

Apple Maps could serve advertising to users in 2023

Apple's move to increase advertising it serves to its users could result in Apple Maps showing ads as early as 2023.

By Malcolm Owen | 9 months ago

Apple Maps tests updates in France, Monaco, New Zealand

1 year ago

Apple Maps tests updates in France, Monaco, New Zealand

Apple has started to expand its updated Apple Maps experience into more countries, with testing of more detailed maps now available in France, Monaco, and New Zealand.

By Malcolm Owen | 1 year ago

Apple challenges patent troll targeting Maps navigation

1 year ago

Apple challenges patent troll targeting Maps navigation

Apple in a counter complaint filed in California on Thursday seeks to nullify a new assertion from patent holdings firm Traxcell, which is suing the tech giant in Texas for alleged infringement of intellectual property covering navigation systems.

By Mikey Campbell | 1 year ago

Apple Maps partner Yelp will allow businesses to state COVID-19 vaccination policies

1 year ago

Apple Maps partner Yelp will allow businesses to state COVID-19 vaccination policies

Yelp, whose business review data is deeply integrated into Apple Maps, will soon introduce new profile affordances that will allow businesses to list COVID-19 vaccination policies and information.

By AppleInsider Staff | 1 year ago

Apple Maps cycling directions expands to Seattle

2 years ago

Apple Maps cycling directions expands to Seattle

Apple recently expanded Apple Maps cycling directions to Seattle and integrated additional coverage for a wide swath of California.

By AppleInsider Staff | 2 years ago

Apple's indoor mapping format adopted as community standard

2 years ago

Apple's indoor mapping format adopted as community standard

Apple's Indoor Mapping Data Format (IMDF) was this week adopted by the Open Geospatial Consortium as a community standard for indoor positioning services.

By Mikey Campbell | 2 years ago

Apple Maps Look Around imaging vehicles spotted in New Zealand, Singapore, Israel

2 years ago

Apple Maps Look Around imaging vehicles spotted in New Zealand, Singapore, Israel

The Look Around feature of Apple Maps may work with more countries in the future, with Apple's vehicles driving around Israel, New Zealand, and Singapore to collect images used to generate the street-level views.

By Malcolm Owen | 2 years ago

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Apple Maps expands Look Around to four more US cities

2 years ago

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.

By AppleInsider Staff | 2 years ago

How to use Guides, Indoor Maps, and Look Around in Maps with macOS Big Sur

2 years ago

How to use Guides, Indoor Maps, and Look Around in Maps with macOS Big Sur

The new Apple Maps experience in macOS Big Sur borrows heavily from what was available in iOS version. Here's how to take advantage of the Look Around, Guides, and Indoor Maps features.

By Malcolm Owen | 2 years ago

Apple Maps trials updated maps for UK and Ireland

2 years ago

Apple Maps trials updated maps for UK and Ireland

Apple has started to test its update for Apple Maps that brings more detailed information to the navigation app, with a small number of users spotting the new map data being used in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

By Malcolm Owen | 2 years ago

Apple Maps could soon integrate curated travel recommendations

3 years ago

Apple Maps could soon integrate curated travel recommendations

A recently posted — and quickly deleted — job listing discovered on Wednesday suggests Apple is working to deliver travel recommendations and other editorial content to Maps, a feature that could rival similar integrations seen in leading mapping services.

By AppleInsider Staff | 3 years ago

Apple spent 'billions' on revamped Maps service

3 years ago

Apple spent 'billions' on revamped Maps service

Apple, in response to questions from a U.S. congressional probe into tech antitrust matters, revealed it has invested billions of dollars in the revamped Maps app and corresponding service, a product designed to compete against segment stalwart Google Maps.

By AppleInsider Staff | 3 years ago

Apple Maps may add AR view highlighting the route ahead while driving

3 years ago

Apple Maps may add AR view highlighting the route ahead while driving

A future version of the Maps app could provide more intuitive navigational instructions to drivers in the future, by using augmented reality to superimpose the route to take on top of a live view of the road ahead, indicating which lanes a driver should take.

By Malcolm Owen | 3 years ago

Live from WWDC - the Mac Pro, Pro Display XDR, iOS 13, macOS Catalina and more on the AppleInsider Podcast

3 years ago

Live from WWDC - the Mac Pro, Pro Display XDR, iOS 13, macOS Catalina and more on the AppleInsider Podcast

This week on the AppleInsider Podcast, Daniel Eran Dilger speaks to us live from WWDC and fills us in on the news plus just what it's like being at this event.

By Victor Marks | 3 years ago

Apple's future AR smart glasses could help you find things in your house

4 years ago

Apple's future AR smart glasses could help you find things in your house

Apple is working on an AR mapping app for an iPhone or smart glasses, with identification of not just distant locations, but also on a smaller scale, like a car dashboard or items in your house.

By Malcolm Owen | 4 years ago

Data advocacy group wants Apple and others to give away mapping data in UK

4 years ago

Data advocacy group wants Apple and others to give away mapping data in UK

Data advocacy group Open Data Institute (ODI) has filed a report with the UK government suggesting large companies like Apple, Google and Uber should be compelled to share their collective mapping data to help smaller companies innovate.

By Andrew O'Hara | 4 years ago

Everything new in iOS 12 beta 6

4 years ago

Everything new in iOS 12 beta 6

Earlier on Monday, Apple released the sixth beta of iOS 12 to developers. We've had our heads down rooting through this latest update to see what has changed in this update.

By Andrew O'Hara | 4 years ago

Apple's Siri, Machine Learning teams now under control of new hire John Giannandrea [u]

4 years ago

Apple's Siri, Machine Learning teams now under control of new hire John Giannandrea [u]

To improve the technologies at the core of Apple's future, the company has merged the Siri and Machine Learning teams into one entity, under the control of recent hire John Giannandrea.

By Mike Wuerthele | 4 years ago

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