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Apple Maps will now help you find COVID-19 vaccination sites

Posted on March 17, 2021 by Nadeem Sarwar

A few weeks ago, Google announced that users will soon be able to locate vaccination sites on Google Maps, starting with the Arizona, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas region. Now, Apple has announced a similar convenience for its own mapping and navigation service – Apple Maps. Users can now directly ask Siri, or search for vaccination sites within Apple Maps. To bring the feature to life, Apple has partnered with Vaccine Finder, a free service that helps people – who are eligible for a jab – check vaccine availability at a pharmacy or health facility.

Users can find nearby COVID-19 vaccination locations from the Search bar in Apple Maps by selecting COVID-19 Vaccines in the Find Nearby menu or by asking Siri, “Where can I get a COVID vaccination?”

In addition to finding vaccination spots, users will be able to see other important information such as operating hours, address, contact details, and a link to the official website of the vaccination service provider. All the aforementioned details will be readily accessible from the Apple Maps placecard for each vaccination site.

Operating hours, address, contact details, and a link to official websites can also be found

The company says that in the initial phase of rollout, Apple Maps will cover over 20,000 vaccination sites, with plans to add more in the weeks to come. While Apple is relying on Vaccine Finder’s database to show locations where you can access the COVID-19 vaccine, the company is allowing healthcare service providers, labs, and concerned businesses to submit information about vaccination sites as well as testing spots using the Apple Business Register page. And after due verification, they will be added to Apple Maps as well.

Apple Maps already shows COVID-19 testing locations in countries across multiple continents, details such as working hours for businesses, places that allow takeout facility, and more. Plus, users can also listen to the latest information and news about the ongoing pandemic from reliable sources in the form of short podcasts called Siri Audio briefs.

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iOS 14.5 will add a crowdsourced incident reporting tool to Apple Maps

Posted on February 11, 2021February 11, 2021 by Nadeem Sarwar

The beta-testing of iOS 14.5 is in full swing right now. The latest beta build of iOS 14.5 brings a way to unlock your iPhone using the Apple Watch even if you’re wearing a mask. Additionally, beta testers have also spotted that they can now set a third-party app such as Spotify as the default music and podcast app on their phone. Now, it has been discovered that with iOS 14.5, Apple Maps is adding a way to report incidents, akin to what you’ll come across on Google Maps and Waze.

Incident reporting works via on-screen inputs as well as through Siri voice commands

As per a screenshot shared by Macrumors, the incident reporting feature in Apple Maps currently supports only three types of disruptive events – accidents, hazards, and speed checks. The crowdsourced incident reporting feature works with the Apple Maps app installed on your phone and your car’s dashboard as well via CarPlay.

Apple Maps now has a dedicated ‘Report’ button that will allow users to report incidents. However, users can also report an incident via voice commands by asking Siri to do so. As per a Reddit thread documenting the new feature in Apple Maps, it appears that the crowdsourced incident reporting feature is only live for users in the United States, and doesn’t appear to be working for beta testers in Canada or other regions. Also, Apple is likely testing it only among a small batch of testers right now, and not all users running the beta build of iOS 14.5 on their phone.

The new Apple Maps feature is similar to what Google Maps and Waze already offer

As mentioned above, the new Apple Maps features in iOS 14.5 beta only supports reporting three types of incidents – accidents, hazards, and speed check. Waze and Google Maps, on the other hand, offer a much wider range. Google Maps, for example, lets users report incidents like an accident, traffic slowdowns, speed traps, ongoing construction, hurdles such as debris on the road, closed lanes, and disabled vehicles.

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Apple Maps now shows COVID-19 testing locations in the US

Posted on April 29, 2020April 29, 2020 by Lee Kelly

When searching for keywords such as "coronavirus test" or "COVID-19 test", Apple Maps will show locations where one can get tested.

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Apple Maps now shows COVID-19 testing locations in the US

Posted on April 29, 2020April 29, 2020 by Lee Kelly

When searching for keywords such as "coronavirus test" or "COVID-19 test", Apple Maps will show locations where one can get tested.

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Broadcom loses Qualcomm, has Apple lost Siri? | #PNWeekly 296 (LIVE at 3p ET)

Posted on March 16, 2018 by Jules Wang

Former employees say Siri never had a way to lose because Apple never set a way forward for it. Also, Broadcom banned from acquiring Qualcomm.

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Former employees say Apple leadership on Siri is failed

Posted on March 15, 2018 by Jules Wang

The employees say that executive visions for Siri have clashed with their own and have been slow to adapt to the competition.

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The slow train of an iOS 11 beta roll is now on phase 2

Posted on June 23, 2017June 23, 2017 by Jules Wang

More features that were promised at WWDC 2017 in one form or another are coming out to play with developers. And there's still more on the way.

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iOS 10.1 published, Portrait Camera mode included as beta for iPhone 7 Plus

Posted on October 24, 2016October 24, 2016 by Jules Wang

The betas are done… almost.iOS 10.1 finally gets the push for wide release with the onus of improvement on the iPhone 7 Plus and its hyped-up Portrait Camera shooting mode. It’s still in beta, but being able to use both camera sensors’ depth sensing features to pump up bokeh is still a cool thing to try out.Apple Maps transit directions for Japan and a fix to a syncing bug between the

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Finally, Apple Maps recognizes all of Amtrak’s routes

Posted on October 3, 2016 by Jules Wang

As Amtrak continues hauling butt, so does Apple Maps. But it’s not just the Northeast Regional anymore. Now, if your city has Transit directions support, you’ll be able to get directions with all of Amtrak’s routes.From the Sunset Limited to the Silver Service and even the three routes to and from Canada, every route is now available for you to look up and figure out how to use.Apple Maps Transit is ...

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LG V20 Quad DAC, all glass iPhones, and Android security concerns | Pocketnow Weekly 213

Posted on August 11, 2016August 13, 2016 by Juan Carlos Bagnell

Apple gets smart about BETA testing software, while we’re already tracking rumors about next year’s iPhone. Google and Samsung respond to security concerns exploited at this year’s Def Con. And the LG V20 looks to impress audiophiles with a Quad DAC system! What does that even mean?!?!?Those stories, and we’ll tackle your viewer emails! Make sure you’re charged and ready for episode 213 of the Pocketnow Weekly!Watch the live video broadcast from 2:00pm Eastern on August 11 (click

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Apple Maps debacle is the main reason we now have public iOS beta tests

Posted on August 8, 2016 by Adrian Diaconescu

Four years after the spectacularly failed replacement of Google Maps with Cupertino’s own in-house alternative as the default mapping and navigation service on iOS 6, Eddy Cue believes a lot of good came from perhaps the worse Apple-centric software fiasco in the company’s history.Tim Cook’s second-in-command when it comes to “services” opened up in an extensive FastCompany piece that includes numerous interesting quotes by both the SVP, his skipper, and Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of ...

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Apple Maps updated with even more Flyover locations, Taiwan traffic

Posted on February 5, 2016 by Adrian Diaconescu

Well, that was fast. The second best but rapidly improving web mapping service for iOS devices picked up a small update only a couple of weeks back, growing the list of places where Flyover support is offered, plus real-time Traffic and Transit information, and already, Apple Maps goes through another makeover.This one isn’t major either, and doesn’t change anything about the way the app looks, or even how it ...

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Apple Maps expands Flyover support, picks up traffic info in Hong Kong and Mexico

Posted on January 22, 2016 by Adrian Diaconescu

There’s no question Apple’s proprietary web mapping service greatly evolved in the past few years, in terms of stability, capabilities and especially iOS popularity, but in many ways, it remains a poor man’s Google Maps.Thankfully, Cupertino seems to acknowledge that, and spare no effort to update Apple Maps every month or at least

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How does Apple Maps serve three times the requests of Google Maps?

Posted on December 9, 2015December 9, 2015 by Jules Wang

This is a story of redemption. It’s also the story of acceptance. And it’s partly a story of not giving a rat’s bottom about which app you go to for your maps. Apple certainly cared where its users got their location apps when it launched Apple Maps back in 2012. With geological renderings of wonder, mislabeled roads and points of interest and, for the longest time, a lack of basic transit directions,

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Apple Maps has transit directions in two more cities and eastern Amtrak routes

Posted on October 20, 2015 by Jules Wang

Third-party providers have app after app after app for consumers to tap into to know when their bus, train, trolley, ferry, gondola and/or teleporter in thousands of cities across ten continents and a couple of galaxies on — and this is more important than sarcasm — almost all major mobile operating platforms. Native apps, too.In 2015, Apple has rolled out transit ...

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