I've found place cards are particularly handy for finding about restaurants along my route. Place cards are the short summaries that pop up when you tap on a business, listing not only the address, but hours, contact info, user reviews and photos. I plan to give AR maps another try in the near future to see what improvements have appeared. My early tests weren't promising, though Apple was planning to polish the walking directions feature for San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, San Diego and London, where it's available initially.
Once Maps has pinpointed your location, you'll get step-by-step directions, appearing as AR-powered overlays with arrows and street names superimposed on your iPhone screen. To trigger walking directions, scan the buildings around you.
In what sounds like another feature inspired by Google's street view directions, Apple is exploiting its fascination with augmented reality to guide you around unfamiliar areas - at least if you've got an iPhone with an A12 Bionic chip or later and live in the right city. You can even pin frequently used routes iOS 15 so that transit times are always at your fingertips. However, the best part about transit changes in iOS 15 Maps - at least to me - involves the ability to access nearby departures with a tap - perfect when you're hustling to make a bus and want to see just how much time you have to get to your stop. Even better, when you approach particularly complicated interchanges, the perspective of the driving view changes to the road level sot that now you're seeing an at-a-glance view that helps you stay in the right lane.Īpple claims the redesigned interface for transit is easier to use with one-hand - vital if you're standing on a bus or train and using your free hand to hold on. Specifically, Maps now shows lanes, medians, crosswalks and other road details that a driver in unfamiliar territory may benefit from seeing. The driving view in iOS 15 MapsĪpple has retooled the view it offers when you get driving directions to a specific location, adding a greater number of details that should help you navigate potentially unfamiliar territory.
Once you've seen the iOS 15 Maps preview, though, you'll want this more detailed view sooner rather than later. with these kind of features in Maps is to launch them in places like San Francisco, New York and London first, rolling them out to other cities over time. Not every city offers these detailed views even after iOS 15's arrival. At night time, the map gets a moonlit glow, which Apple also hopes showcases its attention to detail. Roads are no longer yellow as they are in the preceding version of Maps, with Apple opting for a more realistic - and easier to spot - gray color. That same view in iOS 14 (Image credit: Apple)
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