Google Maps for iOS has been up to date with two widgets to assist customers shortly 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 (fuel station) or navigate to your house or workplace — all with a single faucet. The second widget is designed to test visitors situations and site particulars earlier than heading out for some work or simply for enjoyable. You can place the Google Maps widgets immediately 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 helps you to discover locations close by and navigate to and from your house and workplace places via the search widget.

You can faucet on the accessible choices to navigate to your close by restaurant, ATM, or petrol station or to get navigation for reaching your house 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 test the most recent visitors situations and see location particulars, store opening occasions, and restaurant critiques. The 1×1 widget additionally reveals your present location together with the visitors layer.

Previously, Google Maps provided widgets within the older format to point out info comparable to journey time, visitors, transit departures, and native guides. Those had been, nevertheless, 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 appropriate 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 help via iPadOS 15 that’s presently accessible underneath preview and is scheduled to achieve the customers this fall.

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

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

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