Apple Maps in iOS 18 got a new feature that’s been on my wishlist for years

Apple Maps is great for navigation, but I especially love using the app to browse new areas, find a great coffee shop, and plan outings and adventures. For those use cases, iOS 18 brought a key change to search in Apple Maps that somehow has been missing for years: you can now search the specific area you’re viewing on the map. And that’s been a huge answered wish for me. My longstanding Apple Maps problem Here’s a key thread from Apple’s support community back in 2020: I know I am going to be in a certain location at some time in the future. I enter that address in Maps and it is located. I now want to search for, say, used bookstores near that location. How do I do it? Scenarios like this were very common for me too, pre-iOS 18. I would open Apple Maps and start browsing an area on the map. This would happen when planning a vacation, trying to find a new place for coffee, or scoping out shops and restaurants in a different neighborhood. Before iOS 18, I’d be viewing a given ar ... Read full article.