With Look Around activated, you can move around the map in a few different ways. This loads a sizable thumbnail view of the location you’ve selected, which can be expanded to full-screen with a tap. Where available, Look Around is engaged by tapping the binoculars icon in the top-right corner of the screen. Google launched Street View over 12 years ago, so Apple is laughingly late to the game with Look Around, but it aims to atone for its delay by offering a more modern, elegant experience than Google. It enables viewing and moving through a 3D representation of the world from the perspective of a car on the road. The hallmark feature of iOS 13’s Maps is Look Around, which serves as a direct competitor to Google’s popular Street View. Left to right: Binoculars icon engages Look Around Look Around preview window full-screen Look Around.
Timed with the spread of its first-party mapping data, Apple is giving the Maps app a big upgrade in iOS 13 that represents the company’s biggest push yet to overtake Google Maps as the world’s most trusted, go-to mapping service. Apple Maps in iOS 13 represents – if you’re in the US at least – Apple’s purest vision to date for a modern mapping service. The new maps started rolling out in the US last fall with iOS 12, and Apple claims they’ll cover the entire US by the end of 2019.
Last year, Apple announced a coming change that had been years in the works: Maps would soon contain the company’s own maps, and they would be transformative. The app is Apple’s, but the maps have always come from other sources. Apple’s path to a home-brewed mapping solution has been long and perilous, but it’s almost arrived.ġ2 years ago the iPhone launched with Google powering its pre-installed navigation software five years later, the botched debut of Apple’s own Maps app led to the firing of a key Apple executive Apple Maps has steadily improved over the years, but seemingly its biggest weakness is that it has never truly contained Apple’s own maps.
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