Apple Quietly Discontinued Flyover City Tours in Apple Maps

Apple Maps nary longer offers a Flyover diagnostic that provides users with automated tours of notable landmarks successful large cities. The Flyover enactment appears to person been nixed astir erstwhile iOS 26 launched, but its removal went mostly unnoticed.


Flyover metropolis tours were introduced successful 2014 with iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite, utilizing Flyover imagery to make an aerial tour. Most cities with Flyover imagery supported the circuit feature, but it whitethorn not person been utilized often since Apple was capable to softly discontinue it.

Flyover imagery has not been removed and implicit 350 cities proceed to person 3D Flyover imagery that highlights landmarks, parks, important buildings, and much with a bird's-eye view.

Apple uses imagery collected with tiny military-grade planes that created elaborate maps of buildings from supra for Flyover. The diagnostic is not disposable successful immoderate areas owed to privateness and information concerns.

Flyover metropolis tours utilized to beryllium accessible by tapping connected the Flyover icon erstwhile searching for a city, but that enactment has present been removed.
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