Apple quietly launched a new app on Friday called “Maps Surveyor,” which lets users contribute to Apple Maps by ...

When the iPhone first launched, it was preloaded with Google Maps. In 2012, Apple replaced it with its own mapping application known as Apple Maps. It launched in beta in the iOS 6 beta ...

With the upcoming iOS 18.4 update, iPhones will allow Google Maps as the default navigation app, but not for everyone.

Apple Maps wouldn’t be the first Apple app to come with built-in ads. The Stocks, News and App Store apps already contain adverts, and the company is pushing further into the commercials ...

Many similar apps already offer search ads, including Google Maps, Waze, and Yelp. Apple already displays search ads in the App Store, allowing developers to pay to promote their apps to users who ...

This is how search ads work in the App Store. The ad is clearly labelled, but it takes up space. While this isn’t unprecedented–Google Maps already does something similar–Apple fans are ...

In 2022, Mark Gurman warned that Apple was considering putting advertisements in Apple Maps (and in other areas of the iPhone), but that ultimately didn’t happen. Now it looks like Apple is ...