Apple Maps will soon start showing testing locations for the novel coronavirus
Apple has an online portal where healthcare providers and other businesses can register their COVID-19 testing locations. Google Maps has plenty of coronavirus-related features but doesn’t list COVID-19 testing sites in the app. Visit BGR’s homepage for more stories.
Apple has been upgrading its Apple Maps navigation apps in the past few years to try to catch up with Google’s Maps product. The latter isn’t the default mapping and navigation app on iOS, but plenty of iPhone users still use it. Google Maps offers a more feature-rich experience than Apple Maps, and that’s understandable given Google’s development lead on Apple. But Apple Maps is about to get a feature that Google Maps should copy as soon as possible as it’s related to the novel coronavirus health crisis. Apple Maps will soon direct you to the closes COVID-19 testing center near you, which is the kind of information you should find in a navigation app during a pandemic.
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This is one Apple Maps feature that Google Maps has to copy originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 13 Apr 2020 at 07:31:16 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Apple has been upgrading its Apple Maps navigation apps in the past few years to try to catch up with Google’s Maps product. The latter isn’t the default mapping and navigation app on iOS, but plenty of iPhone users still use it. Google Maps offers a more feature-rich experience than Apple Maps, and that’s understandable given Google’s development lead on Apple. But Apple Maps is about to get a feature that Google Maps should copy as soon as possible as it’s related to the novel coronavirus health crisis. Apple Maps will soon direct you to the closes COVID-19 testing center near you, which is the kind of information you should find in a navigation app during a pandemic.
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Amazon deal: Your smartphone can see anywhere with this crazy $29 wireless camera Today’s best deals: AirPods Pro, $7 wireless charger, iPad, Fire HD 8 for $49.99, $50 sous vide, Rosetta Stone, more Apple’s god-tier Pro Display XDR is back on Amazon – here’s what to buy if you can’t afford one
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iPhone 12 phones will look a lot like the iPad Pro Coronavirus update: Even Dr. Fauci now thinks parts of the US can start reopening in May This UK photographer uses FaceTime to keep taking portraits while everyone is quarantined
This is one Apple Maps feature that Google Maps has to copy originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 13 Apr 2020 at 07:31:16 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
#GoogleMaps #Covid-19 #AppleMaps #Coronavirus