The Apple Maps app in iOS 26 contains some helpful new options for protecting monitor of the place you’ve got been and getting alerts if there are any delays that may influence your every day commute. On this information, we have rounded up a listing of every part 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 monitor the eating places, outlets, parks, and landmarks that you just go to, so you’ll be able to look again and keep in mind the place you’ve got been.
Google has lengthy provided a timeline that mechanically saves visits to locations, and Apple’s new Visited Locations possibility matches the performance out there within the Google Maps Timeline.
After you improve to iOS 26, the Maps app pops up an alert letting in regards to the new characteristic, with the intention to decide in or decide out.
You may 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 possibility.
There are alternatives to vary how lengthy visits are saved (three months, one 12 months, and endlessly), and to clear your present historical past. You can even take away areas one-by-one by tapping on them, and report incorrect location readings. While you clear your historical past, Apple Maps pops up an possibility that permits you to clear every part or clear every part 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 can even entry the toggle by going to Privateness and Safety > Location Companies > Maps.
Exact Location must be toggled on for Visited Locations to work, and locations that you have been are saved on-device. The data shouldn’t be uploaded to Apple’s servers.
Most well-liked Routes
Utilizing on-device intelligence, Apple Maps is ready to study the routes that you just choose to take to areas that you just go to incessantly, comparable to work, dwelling, and faculty, and it retains monitor of whenever you sometimes go to these locations.
If there is a street closure or site visitors that is going to influence your commute, the Maps app is ready to warn you in regards to the concern and provide up an alternate route so you will get there on time.
A Maps Strategies Residence Display widget exhibits the identical data if there are any route points. That is an under-the-hood characteristic that solely exhibits up when it is wanted, so if in case you have a brief commute that does not contain roads that incessantly see site visitors, you may not have it pop up.
You may flip it on or off by going to Settings > Maps > Location and toggling off the “Most well-liked Routes and Predicted Locations” setting.
Liquid Glass Redesign
The Maps app has adopted Apple’s Liquid Glass redesign, and it brings some delicate interface adjustments. The search bar and navigation menu are translucent so you’ll be able to see a number of 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 whenever 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 fairly 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 clarification on the suitable facet of the show when turn-by-turn instructions are in progress.
Place Data
While you faucet into or sort a location on the Maps app, the Name, Menu, and Web site buttons are actually extra prominently listed on the prime of the interface, as are the situation’s hours and the order possibility if one is obtainable. There’s now a floating button to get instructions to a spot, and it is at all times out there on the backside proper of the app.
Improved Incident Reviews
It is simpler to report an incident like a crash with a brand new incident button that is positioned on the suitable facet of the iPhone when getting turn-by-turn instructions, and extra incident sorts have been added.
You may report a crash, velocity examine, site visitors, roadwork, hazard, or street closure. In iOS 18, choices are restricted to crash, velocity examine, and hazard.
Learn Extra
We’ve got a devoted iOS 26 roundup that goes into element on all the new options which are out there within the replace.