Be sure to watch this revealing side-by-side comparison video driving the same road in Hawaii with Look Around in Apple Maps on iOS 13 vs. Street View in Google Maps.
Apple made some of the biggest changes to Maps this year with iOS 13, introducing not only a new Look Around feature, but also offering up even more realistic details, real-time transit information, flight status info, and much more.
During today’s WWDC keynote at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California, Apple announced a plethora of new features and enhancements coming to iOS 13, the next major update to the world’s best mobile operating system.
Apple’s data-collection vehicles will be starting surveying the country beginning this summer.
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Detailed terrain features, revealed when zooming and panning, should also launch for Alaska, South Carolina and Tennessee in the coming months.
Apple’s approach to privacy extends to the Maps service, which divides your route into scrambled sections on servers so that no one, not even Apple, knows your entire route.
Apple’s LiDAR-equipped vehicles have been conducting ground surveys around the world for three years now, collecting data which will be used to improve Apple Maps.
Apple has expanded coverage of Maps’ transit directions to encompass the entirety of a bunch of US states while indoor maps are now available for quite a few shopping malls.
Apple has expanded availability of transit directions in its Maps app for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch to four European markets: Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland.
DuckDuckGo says it’s worked closely with Apple “to set a new standard of trust online” for address and map searches performed on desktop and mobile devices.