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If you employ a maps app, there’s a very robust chance it’s Google Maps. The ubiquitous smartphone navigation app is used the world over by iPhone and Android customers to search out the quickest and most direct path to a vacation spot, whether or not you’re driving, strolling, biking or taking public transport.

iPhone homeowners are additionally handled to Apple Maps, which has been a mapping different solely available to Apple customers – till now.

As noticed by Android Police, Apple Maps is now available on Android telephones because of an replace Apple has made to how a model of it may be accessed.

This is the place the catch is available in. As famous by 9to5Mac, Apple has made the web model of Apple Maps available to cell gadgets together with iPhone and iPad through its maps.apple.com web deal with, which you may also use on a desktop pc to make use of a web model of Apple Maps.

If you might be utilizing an Android telephone proper now, faucet right here to see Apple Maps through your telephone’s web browser.

But, for the first time, this implies you may also entry Apple Maps on an Android telephone. I examined it utilizing the Chrome app on the Google Pixel 9a and low and behold, Apple Maps loaded right away, with none need to log in. All I needed to do was permit the website to entry my location as a way to use instructions:

If for some motive you’re an Android proprietor who has bemoaned the lack of an Apple Maps app, you’re nonetheless going to be a little dissatisfied. Access to the service solely works through a web browser, and Apple Maps will not be available in the Google Play Store as a standalone app.

That stated, I added the Chrome shortcut to my home screen and it labored.

That doesn’t imply I’m hopping over to Apple Maps on Android, although. I like utilizing Apple Maps when I’m utilizing an iPhone partly as a result of of the wonderful 3D mapping of building that turns out to be useful when navigating throughout London. Plus it simply seems beautiful.

Holding and dragging with two fingers on an iPhone often strikes the 2D map into this view, however this doesn’t occur on the Android web model, in order that neat characteristic is lacking.

I seen the web model of Apple Maps, wherever you entry it, continues to be labelled as being in beta. This means it’s a non-final software program model that’s nonetheless being examined, so that you would possibly encounter a few efficiency gremlins.

I wouldn’t maintain out hope for a full Apple Maps app for Android on the Play Store, however stranger issues have occurred. Apple TV, Apple Music and Apple Music Classical are available as official Apple apps on Android telephones, suggesting Apple might contemplate bringing Apple Maps to Android in the future, an strategy that runs counter to its steadfast refusal to permit Android customers to have entry to companies akin to iMessage.