Google Maps for iOS Adds Widgets to Let You Easily Find Places Nearby

Google Maps for iOS has been up to date with two widgets to assist customers rapidly navigate utilizing their Apple gadgets. One of the newly added Google Maps widget is supposed to allow you to simply search for your close by restaurant or petrol pump (gasoline station) or navigate to your property or workplace — all with a single faucet. The second widget is designed to verify visitors circumstances and placement particulars earlier than heading out for some work or simply for enjoyable. You can place the Google Maps widgets straight in your Home Screen or on Today View.

The up to date Google Maps for iOS (model 5.74) leverages the widgets expertise provided by iOS 14 to ship an all-new navigation expertise. It permits you to discover locations close by and navigate to and from your property and workplace places by means of the search widget.

You can faucet on the obtainable choices to navigate to your close by restaurant, ATM, or petrol station or to get navigation for reaching your property or workplace. Alternatively, you may faucet on the pill-shaped search bar to search for a selected tackle on Google Maps.

In addition to easing your search and navigation, Google Maps has added the second widget to allow you to verify the newest visitors circumstances and see location particulars, store opening instances, and restaurant opinions. The 1×1 widget additionally reveals your present location together with the visitors layer.

Previously, Google Maps provided widgets within the older format to indicate data akin to journey time, visitors, transit departures, and native guides. Those have been, nonetheless, not that interactive when in comparison with the brand new ones.

You can download the up to date Google Maps app from the App Store. The app is notably suitable with each iPhone and iPad gadgets. However, the widgets are restricted to iPhone solely at this second as iPad customers are as a result of obtain widget assist by means of iPadOS 15 that’s at present obtainable below preview and is scheduled to achieve the customers this fall.

Once downloaded and put in, Google Maps permits you to add its new widgets straight by tapping Edit within the Today View or urgent the + icon within the enhancing mode on one in every of your Home Screens.

In November, Google up to date Gmail for iOS with a widget to let customers rapidly seek for their inbox and compose new emails.

Similar to Google Maps, Apple Maps has three completely different widgets on iPhone and iPad to let customers obtain vacation spot solutions and ETA monitoring in addition to discover close by locations akin to eating places, gasoline stations, and banks.