The Cupertino tech giant has refreshed the Maps service backend with all-new transit directions in Switzerland and indoor maps for the city of Zurich’s busiest airport.
Aside from other new features, the watchOS 5 software gives you a new option to show navigation with the Maps on your wrist when walking or using public transportation, here’s how.
With watchOS 5, Apple Watch wearers are allowed to separately toggle turn-by-turn alerts for driving, CarPlay and walking, which wasn’t possible on older watchOS versions. If you mainly navigate with your watch, here’s how to customize navigation alerts to your liking.
Apple has hired 3,500 people for their centre focused on Maps development in Hyderabad.
The iPhone maker has expanded availability of transit directions on Apple Maps, which now includes select areas of Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine and Michigan.
Shopping malls in several Canadian cities are now serving indoor maps that make it a lot easier for customers to find the exact location of stores, restaurants, restrooms and other points of interest on each floor.
Siri’s speech recognition system is paired with a bunch of geolocation-based language models allowing the smart assistant to recognize obscurely named places on a map.
Rebuilt from the ground up, the upcoming Apple Maps refresh will finally incorporate Google Street View-like street-level imagery gathered by Apple’s fleet of specialized vehicles.
Customers in two European Union member countries, Croatia and Slovenia, can now take advantage of a set of directional arrows at the top of the Apple Maps interface to be in the right lane when exiting a freeway or completing a turn.
If you were planning on using Apple Maps to go on a trip today, you might want to reconsider. It looks like the mapping software isn’t working
Apple is officially a partner in North Carolina’s drone testing pilot. The company plans to use drones to capture aerial images to improve Apple Maps but don’t you worry—they will blur things like faces and license plate numbers to protect people’s privacy.
In this guide, we will show you how to stop displaying Maps directions and receiving alerts for every upcoming turn on your Apple Watch. You will of course still be able to get directions on your iPhone, but these directions won’t be pushed to your Apple Watch.
