Apple Maps's Look Around Feature Offers Immersive Experiences, High-Resolution Images

Anil - Apr 23, 2020

Apple Maps’ Look Around is kind of similar to Google’s Street View when it comes to how they work.

Apple has already integrated the Look Around feature into the Apple Maps app on iOS-enabled devices. To some extent, the new feature is pretty similar to the long-standing Street View feature in Google Maps: It enables users to zoom in on a particular area. Thanks to that, users can enjoy an immersive experience with high-resolution images, 3D photography, and more from a street-level view.

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Look Around 1 — The Look Around feature is now available in select areas.

The Look Around feature is now available in select areas. If you want to try it, you can open the Apple Maps and take a visit to one of these areas: New York, Washington D.C, Boston, Philadelphia, Las Vegas, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Hawaii, and Chicago. Note that the company just recently added Chicago to the list of available cities, and the Look Around has yet to provide the entirety of these areas.

Look Around 2 — Apple Maps’ Look Around is kind of similar to Google’s Street View.

Apple Maps’ Look Around is kind of similar to Google’s Street View when it comes to how they work. Users can change the view by swiping the display or inspect a part of the road by tapping on a point on the image. The street-level view appears in a card overlay, but it can be switched to a full-screen view. Look Around is now placed at the top-right corner of Apple Maps with a binoculars icon.

Apple is gradually cutting down its dependency on third-party firms to work on its own in-house mapping services. For the time being, the Look Around feature is ready for use on any device that runs iOS 13, macOS Catalina, or iPadOS13.