We have a refreshed Maps UI that adds multi-stop routing with much better start point~destination point selectors, and condenses various route and guidance options into a single slide-able menu selection row.įor some bewildering reason Apple touts transit cards and fares in Maps as new.

features Apple can add without a new app, not much. What’s on the slate for the iOS 16 Maps app? With the focus on services i.e. It seems like a small step but I’m intrigued if Apple has bigger Apple Maps Server plans later on. They have access to the entire Apple Maps stack and can incorporate Look Around and the detailed 3D city experience in their apps.Īpple also has a new web service called Apple Maps Server that allows 3rd party app backends to do georelated searches directly with the Apple Maps Server which promises to increase performance instead of wasting mobile bandwidth and battery. For developers using MapKit there is a lot of new stuff to access all new map details. If there is one Apple Maps take away from WWDC22 it was the focus on Apple Maps services and leveraging Apple created, Apple proprietary Look Around and detailed 3D city experience in developer apps.

Look Around expansion covering Niigata, Shizuoka, Sapporo and Akashi city areas.

AR Walking Directions and Refine Location for Kanto, Nagoya and Kansai locations covered by Look Around.

In the run up to WWDC22, the Apple Maps team rolled out new features: All that follows is from a Japanese market perspective that does not apply to using Apple Maps in other places. That is building all of our own map data from the ground up.” After 10 years of Apple Maps, 7 years of rebuilding it and 3 years after the all-new map launch…are we there yet?Īs I said last year, reviewing Apple Maps is impossible because it’s a very different service in different regions, with Japan an outliner in many ways. In 2018 Eddie Cue said, “We have been working on trying to create what we hope is going to be the best map app in the world, taking it to the next step.

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