Apple has been working hard to improve its maps app, Cupertino’s goal is to counter the worldwide success of Google Maps
Apple is twisting its Maps app to try to counter the success achieved by Google with its digital mapping app. Among the many new features, in fact, on iOS 12 we will find a totally new Apple Maps with a more intuitive interface and many more functions.
In addition to adding new features and new tools Apple aims with the new Maps application also to increase the privacy of its users. The data collected by the iPhone on our navigations on Maps will be minimal. It will also significantly reduce the battery consumption of the smartphone, especially if the GPS has not been activated by the user. In addition, Apple on the new Maps app will also add satellite images collected thanks to the car called “Apple Minivan” that have scoured several world roads from 2015 to date. Apple’s effort is confirmed by the goal set by Cupertino’s vice president Eddy Cue: the bitten apple company within a couple of years wants to have the most used and most efficient maps app in the world.
How will the new Apple Maps app work
How does Apple respect people’s privacy to the maximum with the new Apple Maps app? This is because in addition to the reduced amount of data on the user’s searches Cupertino before posting a satellite image does an internal editing so that no license plates, faces or any other personal element can be recognizable by users on the app. The app will also be updated daily and not monthly, which means reducing the number of errors in case of road changes and decreasing the inconvenience caused to drivers. From Apple, they say that the application was made as if it were to be used by a self-driving car, so they tried to make it as faithful as possible to the changes, accidents or traffic jams that can change our movements every day.
At the moment, Apple’s maps application is only available in a test version for selected users in the San Francisco area, in the United States. Then in the coming weeks Apple will officially unveil its new maps navigation app and slowly over the next few months the program will be released for iOS users worldwide.