Apple Look Around

Apple Look Around is a technology featured in Apple Maps that provides interactive panoramas from positions along a number of streets in various countries. Look Around allows the user to view 360° street-level imagery, with smooth transitions as the scene is navigated. Look Around was introduced with iOS 13 at Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in June 2019. It was publicly released as part of iOS 13 on September 19, 2019.[1]

Apple Look Around
A street in New Jersey with a look at Look Around in the Apple Maps app on the iPad Pro
Initial releaseSeptember 19, 2019 (2019-09-19)
PlatformiOS, iPadOS, macOS
Available inMultiple languages

Background
An Apple Maps vehicle driving through St. Charles, Missouri in June 2015
An Apple Maps van in Havre, Montana in July 2018
An Apple Maps car near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in June 2019
Cameras of an Apple Maps car in Grenoble in June 2020
An Apple Maps car driving in Geelong in November 2019

In early 2015, vehicles equipped with twelve cameras and lidar sensors were seen in a variety of locations in the United States. These vehicles were owned by Apple and were also seen in places like the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, and Sweden. In June 2015, Apple stated on its website that the vehicles were collecting data to improve Apple Maps. Also, Apple claimed to secure privacy by making faces and license plates unrecognizable. In 2018 Apple confirmed in an article that it was rebuilding Apple Maps, with the first results rolled out in California.[2]

In 2017, Apple had started mapping Spain, Portugal, Croatia, and Slovenia. A year later, in 2018, Apple had started collecting imagery in Japan.

In May 2019, Apple announced plans to begin collecting data for Apple Maps in Canada.[3] Overall in 2019, Apple had started collecting imagery in Andorra, Canada, Malta, San Marino, Germany and Australia.

During WWDC on June 22, 2020, Apple announced its new maps would be coming to Ireland, the United Kingdom, and Canada later in the year.[4] Overall in 2020, Apple had started collecting imagery in Monaco, Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland, Norway, Israel, New Zealand and Singapore.

During WWDC 2021 on June 7, 2021, Apple announced that Spain and Portugal would receive the new maps that day, with both Australia and Italy getting them later in the year[5] On September 10, 2021, Apple published new map data in Andorra, Italy, San Marino, and Vatican City.[6] Apple began testing its new maps in Australia on October 19, 2021, publishing the new data on December 9, 2021.[7][8] Overall in 2021, Apple started collecting imagery in Hungary, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Poland, the Czech Republic, Austria, Switzerland, and Taiwan.

On March 7, 2022, Apple started collecting imagery in Greece. On March 4, 2022, Apple began testing its new map in both Germany and Singapore, with the final launch occurring on April 21, 2022; Munich and most of Singapore received Look Around.

As of May 2022, Look Around covers roughly 38 areas, including parts of the United Kingdom (which includes the overseas territory of Gibraltar), Ireland, Canada, Japan, Andorra, Spain (including the Balearic and Canary Islands), Portugal, Italy, San Marino, Australia, Germany, Singapore and the United States.

Refine Location

In iOS 14, Apple released a new feature called Refine Location in Apple Maps, where the user scans the surrounding area and will update their location where there is low-quality data. This works with Look Around, as the same data is used to help with the accuracy of the locations. As of May 2021, The following areas have received the Refine Location feature:

Locations with Refine Location[9]
Country Location
 United StatesAtlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Jacksonville, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Memphis, Miami, Minneapolis, Nashville, New York, Orange County, Orlando, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Portland, Riverside, California, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, St. Louis, Tampa, Washington, D.C.

Timeline of introductions
# Release date Major locations added
1Thursday, September 19, 2019[10] Las Vegas, Oahu, San Francisco Bay Area, Santa Cruz
2Monday, September 30, 2019[11] Los Angeles, New York City
3Monday, November 18, 2019 Houston
4Wednesday, February 19, 2020[12] Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C.
5Monday, April 20, 2020[13] Chicago
6Monday, June 29, 2020[14] Seattle
7Tuesday, August 4, 2020[15] Kyoto, Nagoya, Osaka, Tokyo
8Thursday, October 1, 2020[16] Edinburgh, London
Dublin
9Wednesday, October 7, 2020[17] Phoenix
10Friday, December 4, 2020 Fukuoka, Hiroshima, Takamatsu
11Thursday, December 10, 2020[18] Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan
12Wednesday, December 16, 2020[19] Denver, Detroit, Miami
13Wednesday, February 3, 2021[20] San Diego, Portland
14Wednesday, May 12, 2021[21] Atlanta
15Monday, May 17, 2021[21] Kanazawa, Sendai
16Monday, June 7, 2021[22] Andalusia, Aragon, Asturias, Balearic Islands, Basque Country, Canary Islands, Cantabria Castilla-La Mancha, Castile and León, Catalonia, Extremadura, Galicia, La Rioja, Madrid, Murcia, Navarre, Valencia
Continental Portugal
Gibraltar
17Friday, September 10, 2021[23] Abruzzo, Aosta Valley, Apulia, Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Emilia-Romagna, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Lazio, Liguria, Lombardy, Marche, Molise, Piedmont, Sardinia, Sicily, Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, Tuscany, Umbria, Veneto
San Marino
18Friday, October 29, 2021 Andorra
19Thursday, December 9, 2021[24] Australian Capital Territory, Jervis Bay, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
20Thursday, April 21, 2022[25] Munich
Singapore

Coverage
Locations with Look Around
Country Region
 Andorra Full coverage
 Australia Full coverage
 Canada Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan
 Germany Munich
 Ireland Dublin
 Italy Full coverage
 Japan Fukuoka, Hiroshima, Kanazawa, Kyoto, Nagoya, Osaka, Sendai, Takamatsu, Tokyo
 Portugal Continental Portugal
 San Marino Full coverage
 Singapore Full coverage
 Spain Andalusia, Aragon, Asturias, Balearic Islands, Basque Country, Canary Islands, Cantabria, Castilla-La Mancha, Castile and León, Catalonia, Extremadura, Galicia, La Rioja, Madrid, Murcia, Navarre, Valencia
 United Kingdom Edinburgh, Gibraltar, London
 United States Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, Oahu, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, San Diego, San Francisco Bay Area, Santa Cruz, Seattle, Washington, D.C.

Future coverage

According to the company, Apple's vehicles and pedestrians have visited, or are scheduled to visit, the following countries:[26]

Countries visited by Apple Maps Image Collection team
Country Vehicle Pedestrian
 Austria Burgenland, Carinthia, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Styria, Tyrol, Upper Austria, Vienna, Vorarlberg N/A
 Belgium Brussels, Flanders, Wallonia Brussels, Flanders, Wallonia
 Croatia Bjelovar-Bilogora, Brod-Posavina, Dubrovnik-Neretva, Istria, Karlovac, Koprivnica-Križevci, Krapina-Zagorje, Lika-Senj, Medimurje, Osijek-Baranja, Požega-Slavonia, Primorje-Gorski Kotar, Šibenik-Knin, Sisak-Moslavina, Split-Dalmatia, Varazdin, Virovitica-Podravina, Vukovar-Srijem, Zadar, City of Zagreb, Zagreb County N/A
 Czech Republic Central Bohemian Region, Hradec Kralove Region, Karlovy Vary Region, Liberec Region, Moravian-Silesian Region, Olomouc Region, Pardubice Region, Plzen Region, Prague, South Bohemian Region, South Moravian Region, Usti nad Labem Region, Vysocina Region, Zlin Region N/A
 Finland Åland, Central Finland, Central Ostrobothnia, Kainuu, Kymenlaakso, Lapland, North Karelia, North Ostrobothnia, Northern Savonia, Ostrobothnia, Paijanne Tavastia, Pirkanmaa, Satakunta, South Karelia, South Ostrobothnia, Southern Savonia, Southwest Finland, Tavastia Proper, Uusimaa N/A
 France Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Brittany, Centre-Val de Loire, Corsica, Grand Est, Hauts-de-France, Île-de-France, Normandy, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Occitanie, Pays de la Loire, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Grand Est, Hauts-de-France, Île-de-France, Normandy, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Occitanie, Pays de la Loire, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
 Germany Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Berlin, Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Hesse, Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein, Thuringia North Rhine-Westphalia
 Greece Attica, Central Greece, Central Macedonia, Crete, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, Epirus, Ionian Islands, North Aegean, Peloponnese, Southern Aegean, Thessaly, Western Greece, Western Macedonia N/A
 Hong Kong Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong-Macao Bridge, Kowloon, New Territories N/A
 Hungary Budapest, Southern Great Plain, Southern Transdanubia, Northern Great Plain, Northern Hungary, Central Transdanubia, Western Transdanubia, Pest N/A
 Israel Central District, Haifa District, Jerusalem District, Northern District, Southern District, Tel Aviv District N/A
 Liechtenstein Liechtenstein N/A
 Luxembourg Capellen, Clervaux, Diekirch, Echternach, Esch-sur-Alzette, Grevenmacher, Luxembourg City, Mersch, Redange, Remich, Vianden, Wiltz Luxembourg City
 Japan Aichi Prefecture, Chiba Prefecture, Fukuoka Prefecture, Gunma Prefecture, Hokkaido, Hiroshima Prefecture, Hyōgo Prefecture, Ibaraki Prefecture, Ishikawa Prefecture, Kagawa Prefecture, Kanagawa Prefecture, Kumamoto Prefecture, Kyoto Prefecture, Mie Prefecture, Miyagi Prefecture, Nara Prefecture, Niigata Prefecture, Okayama Prefecture, Osaka Prefecture, Saitama Prefecture, Shiga Prefecture, Shizuoka Prefecture, Tokyo Prefecture Aichi Prefecture, Fukuoka Prefecture, Hiroshima Prefecture, Hyōgo Prefecture, Ishikawa Prefecture, Kagawa Prefecture, Kanagawa Prefecture, Kyoto Prefecture, Mie Prefecture, Miyagi Prefecture, Nara Prefecture, Osaka Prefecture, Shiga Prefecture, Tokyo Prefecture
 Monaco Monaco Monaco
 Netherlands Drenthe, Flevoland, Friesland, Gelderland, Groningen, Limburg, North Brabant, North Holland, Overijssel, South Holland, Utrecht, Zeeland Groningen, North Brabant, North Holland, South Holland, Utrecht
 New Zealand Auckland, Christchurch, Wellington Auckland, Wellington
 Norway Agder, Innlandet, Møre og Romsdal, Nordland, Oslo, Rogaland, Troms og Finnmark, Trøndelag, Vestfold og Telemark, Vestland, Viken N/A
 Poland Greater Poland, Kuyavian-Pomeranian, Lesser Poland, Lodz, Lower Silesian, Lublin, Lubusz, Masovian, Opole, Podlaskie, Pomeranian, Silesian, Subcarpathian, Świetokrzyskie, Warmian-Masurian, West Pomeranian N/A
 Slovenia Carinthia, Central Sava, Central Slovenia, Coastal-Karst, Drava, Gorizia, Littoral-Inner Carniola, Ljubljana, Lower Sava, Mura, Savinja, Southeast Slovenia, Upper Carniola N/A
 Sweden Blekinge, Dalarna, Gävleborg, Gotland, Halland, Jämtland, Jönköping, Kalmar, Kronoberg, Norrbotten, Örebro, Östergotland, Skåne, Södermanland, Stockholm, Uppsala, Värmland, Västerbotten, Västernorrland, Västmanland, Västra Götaland N/A
  Switzerland Central Switzerland, Eastern Switzerland, Espace Mittelland, Lake Geneva, Northwestern Switzerland, Ticino, Zurich Espace Mittelland, Lake Geneva, Northwestern Switzerland, Zurich
 Taiwan Changhua County, Chiayi City, Chiayi County, Hsinchu City, Hsinchu County, Hualien County, Kaohsiung, Keelung, Kinmen County, Lianjiang County, Miaoli County, Nantou County, New Taipei City, Penghu County, Pingtung County, Taichung, Tainan, Taipei, Taitung County, Taoyuan, Yilan County, Yunlin County N/A
 United Kingdom Full coverage in Channel Islands, England, Gibraltar, Isle of Man, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales England, Scotland
 United States Full coverage in all 50 U.S. states, Guam, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Washington DC

See also

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