The Apple Maps app in iOS 26 contains some helpful new options for maintaining monitor of the place you have been and getting alerts if there are any delays that can impression your every day commute. On this information, we have rounded up an inventory of all the pieces new with Maps.
Visited Locations
Apple Maps is ready to maintain monitor of the locations that you have visited, both in your hometown or whereas touring. It could actually monitor the eating places, outlets, parks, and landmarks that you just go to, so you possibly can look again and bear in mind the place you have been.
Google has lengthy supplied a timeline that routinely saves visits to locations, and Apple’s new Visited Locations choice matches the performance obtainable within the Google Maps Timeline.
After you improve to iOS 26, the Maps app pops up an alert letting you already know concerning the new function, so as to choose in or choose out.
You possibly can see your Visited Locations by opening up the Maps app, tapping in your profile image, tapping on Locations, after which tapping into Visited Locations. On this interface, the areas that you have visited are listed by month, plus there is a search choice.
There are alternatives to alter how lengthy visits are stored (three months, one 12 months, and endlessly), and to clear your present historical past. You too can take away areas one-by-one by tapping on them, and report incorrect location readings. Once you clear your historical past, Apple Maps pops up an choice that permits you to clear all the pieces or clear all the pieces and switch off Visited Locations solely.
If you wish to flip Visited Locations off or allow it at a later date, you are able to do so by going to Settings > Apps > Maps > Location. From there, toggle off Visited Locations. You too can entry the toggle by going to Privateness and Safety > Location Providers > Maps.
Exact Location must be toggled on for Visited Locations to work, and locations that you have been are saved on-device. The knowledge will not be uploaded to Apple’s servers.
Most popular Routes
Utilizing on-device intelligence, Apple Maps is ready to study the routes that you just want to take to areas that you just go to steadily, equivalent to work, residence, and faculty, and it retains monitor of once you usually go to these locations.
If there is a street closure or site visitors that is going to impression your commute, the Maps app is ready to provide you with a warning concerning the challenge and supply up an alternate route so you may get there on time.
A Maps Ideas House Display screen widget reveals the identical info if there are any route points. That is an under-the-hood function that solely reveals up when it is wanted, so in case you have a brief commute that does not contain roads that steadily see site visitors, you may not have it pop up.
You possibly can flip it on or off by going to Settings > Maps > Location and toggling off the “Most popular Routes and Predicted Locations” setting.
Liquid Glass Redesign
The Maps app has adopted Apple’s Liquid Glass redesign, and it brings some refined interface modifications. The search bar and navigation menu are translucent so you possibly can see among the Maps background behind it, and place icons are bigger than earlier than.
Icons have the layered glass look, and the varied menus, playing cards, and buttons are extra rounded than earlier than. The Share Sheet has a popover design and it too is clear.
The Library tab that was accessible once you faucet your profile image is now referred to as Locations, and it has improved spacing and a brand new Visited Locations part.
Flip-by-turn instructions are in a smaller pop-up bar somewhat than taking over the highest of the Maps show, and time of arrival, size of journey, and distance are proven extra prominently.
Voice Controls
The Voice Quantity part within the Maps app is now Voice Controls, and there are added toggles for Muted, Alerts Solely, or Unmuted so adjusting how turn-by-turn instructions are communicated is extra intuitive.
These controls did exist in iOS 18, however solely as toggles that had no rationalization on the fitting aspect of the show when turn-by-turn instructions are in progress.
Place Info
Once you faucet into or kind a location on the Maps app, the Name, Menu, and Web site buttons are actually extra prominently listed on the high of the interface, as are the placement’s hours and the order choice if one is offered. There’s now a floating button to get instructions to a spot, and it is all the time obtainable on the backside proper of the app.
Improved Incident Studies
It is simpler to report an incident like a crash with a brand new incident button that is positioned on the fitting aspect of the iPhone when getting turn-by-turn instructions, and extra incident sorts have been added.
You possibly can report a crash, pace examine, site visitors, roadwork, hazard, or street closure. In iOS 18, choices are restricted to crash, pace examine, and hazard.
Learn Extra
We now have a devoted iOS 26 roundup that goes into element on all the new options which are obtainable within the replace.
