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 (fuel station) or navigate to your property or workplace — all with a single faucet. The second widget is designed to verify site visitors situations and placement particulars earlier than heading out for some work or simply for enjoyable. You can place the Google Maps widgets instantly in your Home Screen or on Today View.

The up to date Google Maps for iOS (model 5.74) leverages the widgets expertise supplied 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 way of 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 property or workplace. Alternatively, you possibly can 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 site visitors situations and see location particulars, store opening occasions, and restaurant opinions. The 1×1 widget additionally reveals your present location together with the site visitors layer.

Previously, Google Maps supplied widgets within the older format to indicate info comparable to journey time, site 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 attributable to obtain widget assist by way of iPadOS 15 that’s presently accessible 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 instantly by tapping Edit within the Today View or urgent the + icon within the enhancing mode on considered one 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 totally different widgets on iPhone and iPad to let customers obtain vacation spot ideas and ETA monitoring in addition to discover close by locations comparable to eating places, fuel stations, and banks.