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iOS 6 Maps Hands On Video
Mar 11, 2025
A hands on of Apple's new Maps application in iOS 6. Follow me on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/MichaelSteeber Follow Cult Of Mac on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/cultofmac For more iOS 6 coverage, check out http://www.cultofmac.com
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hey everyone this is Michael with cul ma
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here and today I'm going to show you the
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new maps application in iOS 6 and I'm
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running it here on the iPad uh but this
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is also pretty much exactly the same on
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the iPhone as well just thought I'd show
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it to you on a bigger display so if we
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launch up maps here you can see that it
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immediately looks different it's no
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longer based on Google Maps and it looks
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quite a bit nicer the interface has been
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simplified things like that so if we
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zoom in we can see that now everything
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is based around Apple's own custom
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interface so they choose how the maps
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look um so it's pretty interesting now
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you can immediately see that some
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different gestures are supported you can
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use two fingers now and you can swipe up
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and down like this and you kind of get
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this 3D View and you can see Apple's
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headquarters and you can even do some
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rotation if you use two fingers and you
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can see this is the front of Apple's
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headquarters now another thing you can
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do is you can switch over uh to
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satellite mode and now this brings
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brings you into the pretty amazing 3D
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mode actually it crashed here you can
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see it's still in beta obviously but
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we're going to go
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satellite and we're going to zoom in
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here so now we're in Satellite and this
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is Apple's headquarters now I have about
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a 20 megabit internet connection here
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and you can still see how slow it is uh
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so this is a lot of data this is pretty
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intensive but it performs pretty well um
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even on the iPad so if we zoom in here
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and pan around we can see Apple's
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headquarters and it really looks
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remarkable there's some weird things uh
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that don't look quite right and some
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kind of weird artifacting and things
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like that but all in all uh it's pretty
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amazing and you can see here's the front
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of infinite Loop now there's a couple
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things I can show you here that are only
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available on the iPhone uh such as turn
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BYT navigation and traffic and really
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even if I had the iPhone here I'd still
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have to go out in the car and drive
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around to show you so it's not really
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practical you can see all that stuff on
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Apple's website and there's some
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screenshots uh there's also a compass
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button here and it realigns you whenever
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you hit it looking under here you can
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also see that uh this data is powered by
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TomTom uh so that's pretty interesting
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obviously you can also show traffic
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things like that uh these are all things
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that are always available in the maps
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and we also have a satellite hybrid and
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standard view like you saw before also
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take a look at directions here so for
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example I'm going to start at
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I'm going to start at one infinite Loop
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and I'm going to end in Redmond
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Washington I'm going to take a little
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trip to
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Microsoft so now if I hit the route
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obviously it'll do the route for me and
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it says 13 hours 854 miles so you can
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see uh that now you can do routes on
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here this is not something new uh but it
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just looks a little bit different
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because of the new maps app and of
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course you can tilt up and down like
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this if you hit this button down here
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you can see the directions and it gives
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you the route and then from there you'd
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be able to hit start and navigate so
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that's pretty much iOS Maps the new
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version on iOS 6 in a nutshell uh once
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you go in and you really play with the
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3D mode it's pretty amazing and
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especially if you're looking at
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landmarks and stuff they got some really
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good data and it looks really nice and
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it's really remarkable and I can't wait
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for this future to debut in Fall I think
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I might actually start using the maps
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app on iOS now a couple more things
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let's say you go to a specific
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company or a place or a restaurant or
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something like that such as Apple here
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now if you hit the information button
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you see this kind of New View and it
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shows you you know the location and
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image and you also see the address and
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everything it just looks quite a bit
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nicer now also this works with Siri and
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Siri is now in the iPad so if I ask Siri
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something
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like find Italian restaurants in
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cero okay one of these Italian
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restaurants is in cerino CA Siri will
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now give you these restaurants here and
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you can see it looks a little bit
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different with the new maps app and I
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can select one of them and I can look at
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a whole bunch of information it's a lot
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nicer than it was before and uh let's
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say I want to look at the map it'll take
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me there and like I said it shows you
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the reviews on Yelp I can hit this
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information button it shows me the map
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up there it shows me the website and
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everything like that and an enhanced
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view so that's about all for the new
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maps application in iOS 6 and there's a
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lot of cool new features in iOS 6 and
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I'll be doing couple more videos on
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so make sure to stay tuned for those on
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