Apple Maps’ extra detailed, three-dimensional cities that launched with iOS 15 are coming to Canada, providing higher driving navigation, transit instructions, and an augmented actuality strolling expertise. The company has announced that the brand new metropolis expertise is obtainable in Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver. The characteristic was beforehand accessible in a half a dozen US cities — Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, San Diego, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. — in addition to London within the UK.

It’s a welcome growth. When we reviewed iOS 15 final yr our solely actual challenge with the improved mapping expertise was its extraordinarily restricted availability. But, the place accessible, it affords a large enchancment to how cities look in Apple’s software program, and even contains 3D fashions of main landmarks. From a useful perspective, these enhancements assist with driving instructions, like displaying extra element about which street lanes to make use of.

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As properly as driving navigation, instructions for public transit may also see enhancements within the added cities. Apple Maps gives you a notification when it’s time to disembark, and there are additionally person interface enhancements like letting customers pin their favourite transit strains to make their most well-liked routes extra simply accessible. Walkers additionally profit, and might get step-by-step instructions in augmented actuality, whereas biking instructions (a characteristic that initially got here to Apple Maps with iOS 14) are additionally now accessible in Montreal.