Apple Maps Look Around spreading outside city centers in the U.S., coming to more countrie...
Apple is bringing Look Around to more areas, including an expansion of existing locations for the Apple Maps feature and into new countries, including Egypt, China, and Turkey.
![Smartphone screen displaying map and directions at an intersection, showing street names and a red tour vehicle in the foreground.](https://photos5.appleinsider.com/gallery/60673-124868-IMG_0801-xl.jpg)
An example of Apple Maps' Look Around function
Apple's take on Google Street View, Look Around, already covers a large number of cities around the world, but it doesn't have the same reach as Google's version. A future expansion could help close the gap.
Spotted via @RhinozzCode on X and reported by MacRumors, a number of vector tiles used in the Apple Maps web beta have let slip the coverage lines of Look Around. This includes a far larger area that Look Around will expand to in the future.
For the United States, this will include an expansion out from major metropolitan areas to include major and some minor highways. This will mean coverage of some rural areas, not just urban landscapes.
There's also a list of countries that will get their first Look Around treatments, including Morocco, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, China, Belarus, Turkey, Bulgaria, Mexico, and Slovakia.
The last major expansion to Look Around added six central Europe countries to the roster in mid-2023, two weeks after a similar upgrade to more northern countries on the continent.
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Funny thing I noticed; the military airport outside Uppsala, where I live, is blurred in satellite view in Apple Maps on the Mac, but not on the iPad.