{"id":1844743,"date":"2025-07-15T10:30:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T14:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1844743"},"modified":"2025-07-15T10:30:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T14:30:22","slug":"apple-maps-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/07\/apple-maps-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Maps Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>9to5Mac<\/em> notes two features coming to Apple Maps as of iOS 26 this fall: <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/07\/07\/leak-reveals-apple-maps-in-ios-26-could-get-two-unannounced-new-features\/\">natural language search<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/07\/10\/apple-maps-in-ios-26-gains-the-proactive-feature-ive-long-needed\/\">commute notifications<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/07\/09\/apple-maps-highway-407-etr-avoid-tolls-issue\/\">Apple Maps briefly failed to treat Ontario\u2019s Highway 407 as a toll road earlier this month<\/a>, in what was probably an updating error. (The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ontario_Highway_407\">407<\/a> is a fairly expensive toll freeway, but it\u2019s split between privately and provincially owned sections; the province is removing tolls on its section, but Apple apparently applied that change to the whole route.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9to5Mac notes two features coming to Apple Maps as of iOS 26 this fall: natural language search and commute notifications. Meanwhile, Apple Maps briefly failed to treat Ontario\u2019s Highway 407 as a toll road earlier&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/07\/apple-maps-roundup\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[{"did":"did:plc:hhxrnk4vub7jtlcl3ve26kjo","date":"2025-07-15T14:30:25+00:00","uri":"at:\/\/did:plc:hhxrnk4vub7jtlcl3ve26kjo\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3ltz4j274lv2d","response":"{\"uri\":\"at:\/\/did:plc:hhxrnk4vub7jtlcl3ve26kjo\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3ltz4j274lv2d\",\"cid\":\"bafyreihd6rxb2r7oan2hi4tact4qwsemfbyt6hr2d7dvhtkrqbv2hs2vx4\",\"commit\":{\"cid\":\"bafyreihscmylgug5lpke3ivvxfr5jukkggcoa2pjduaspsimftxrbgwvii\",\"rev\":\"3ltz4j27o6f2d\"},\"validationStatus\":\"valid\"}"}],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,80],"tags":[600,83,1743,1289],"class_list":["post-1844743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-map-errors","category-mobile","tag-apple","tag-apple-maps","tag-ios-26","tag-ontario","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1791492,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/07\/a-look-at-apple-maps-in-ios-15\/","url_meta":{"origin":1844743,"position":0},"title":"A Look at Apple Maps in iOS 15","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"27 July 2021","format":"link","excerpt":"MacRumors takes a look at the changes to Apple Maps in iOS 15. \u201cApple has made so many improvements to the Maps app in iOS 15 that it's almost an entirely different experience. There are better driving directions, improved transit directions, and more immersive AR-based walking directions.\u201d That\u2019s maybe a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Mobile&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Mobile","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/mobile\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1787538,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/08\/a-close-look-at-apple-maps-in-ios-13\/","url_meta":{"origin":1844743,"position":1},"title":"A Close Look at Apple Maps in iOS 13","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"1 August 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"Writing for MacStories, Ryan Christoffel takes a deep dive into the new features of Apple Maps in iOS 13. His conclusions? Apple Maps in iOS 13 is the biggest step forward the app has ever taken. 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Verdict: lots\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Mobile&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Mobile","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/mobile\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/apple-maps-mac-icon-150x136.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1787430,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/06\/comparing-apple-maps-in-ios-13-to-google-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":1844743,"position":3},"title":"Comparing Apple Maps in iOS 13 to Google Maps","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"14 June 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"Om Malik's take on the updates to Apple Maps: \"all it does is remind me of Bing\u2014an also-ran that can never catch up to Google.\" The WWDC hoopla around this tells me that Apple thinks of Apple Maps as an application, whereas in reality, maps are all about data\u2014something Google\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Mobile&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Mobile","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/mobile\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1790100,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/02\/crowdsourced-incident-reporting-coming-to-apple-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":1844743,"position":4},"title":"Crowdsourced Incident Reporting Coming to Apple Maps","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"11 February 2021","format":"link","excerpt":"Crowdsourced incident reporting\u2014a feature already available in Google Maps and Waze\u2014is coming to Apple Maps: the beta release of iOS 14.5 enables users to report accidents, road hazards and speed checks, with Siri and CarPlay integration. 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