Apple Maps on the web now has Look Around

Following the beta motorboat of Apple Maps connected the web successful July, Apple has present precocious added Look Around street-level views for respective cities to the site, 9to5Mac reports. You tin activate Look Around arsenic you would successful the Apple Maps app connected devices similar the iPhone oregon iPad by selecting the binoculars icon connected the bottommost near of the representation window. You tin past click and resistance connected the representation to spot antithetic first-person perspectives successful galore large cities.

At launch, the Apple Maps web beta included basal functionality similar searching for points of interest, seeing ratings, browsing country Guides, and getting directions. With Look Around, the web mentation inches person to matching functionality with the Apple Maps app connected iOS, iPadOS, and macOS — albeit without personalization features specified arsenic searching addresses from your contacts oregon redeeming locations to your Library.

Personally, I usage the Apple Maps app connected my Mac much often than immoderate different mapping software, and I often find Apple’s Look Around to beryllium a smoother acquisition than Google’s Street View. However, I sometimes besides person to power to Google Maps anyhow since Apple doesn’t enactment Look Around for my hometown of Baltimore, MD — adjacent though I spotted an Apple Maps van successful the metropolis each the way backmost successful 2017.

You tin spot the afloat database of cities wherever you tin usage Look Around on Apple’s website.