Apple includes a new map design that includes new features, such as more detailed maps, hourly specific navigation and improved driving directions.
For example, in iOS 15 Maps will include a new feature that will allow users to get directions based on the time they want to leave or arrive at a destination. This allows you to estimate travel times based on traffic conditions.
Additionally, Apple has also revamped the transit map with new key bus routes. Users will be able to interact more easily with their current route and can be notified when they are close to their destination.
Apple has also added a new interactive globe (similar to Google Earth) and "detailed urban experiences" that allow users to explore cities such as San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York and London with new details on elevation, trees, landmarks and even more..
Apple Maps has also been updated with new augmented reality-based driving directions for navigation when walking. Driving directions have been improved with easier-to-see details about traffic, accidents, and road features such as turn lanes and middle lanes.
Search in Apple Maps has also been improved and placeholders have been redesigned to make it easier to find important information about businesses, cities, and physical features, such as mountain ranges.
As always, it is unclear how many of these innovations will be implemented globally or if they will begin in the United States and gradually spread to the rest of the countries.
To know the final extent of the news in Maps we will have to wait for the final launch of iOS 15 and macOS Monterey in the fall.
