In the previous 12 months, Google Maps has obtained tons of latest options that can assist you get round, pay for parking and maintain abreast of latest providers in your neighborhood. With its newest iOS replace, Google is breaking out extra of its most-used capabilities that can assist you entry them sooner. It’s additionally including a darkish mode to decrease the pressure in your eyes and a brand new stay location possibility for iMessage that may enable you to observe pals and family members. 

The latter allows you to share your real-time location whereas texting by tapping the Google Maps button. Though the characteristic is lively for one hour by default, you may select to increase it to as much as three days or disable it by urgent the cease button. Live location recollects the security options constructed into ride-hailing apps like Uber and Lyft.

If you continuously use Google Maps to verify visitors circumstances, now you can put that information instantly on your private home display with a brand new widget. The similar goes for the search bar, which helps you to lookup locations to go to or discover frequent locations with a faucet. Of course, the fast entry options are made potential because of Apple’s introduction of iPhone widgets with iOS 14 final fall.

Dark mode is self-explanatory and you may flip it on by way of settings. It’s simply odd that it took so lengthy for the in any other case ubiquitous characteristic to achieve Maps on iOS.