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Get started with Maps on iPhone

The Maps app helps you navigate the world around you, whether you’re getting directions to a new destination, discovering local businesses, or exploring unfamiliar areas with real-time traffic updates.

The Maps app showing the Details screen with options to set an address as home, work, or school.

Set your go-to addresses

Quickly access directions by saving the locations you travel to and from most. Below Library, tap the Add button. Tap the search field, enter an address, then tap a result. Assign it to a type—home, work, or school—then tap Done.

An iPhone showing a map with several driving route options to the same destination. Each route shows the estimated time and distance, and a Go button to start turn-by-turn directions. Color coding on each route indicates traffic conditions.

Navigate with ease

Get step-by-step directions to wherever you’re headed, however you want to get there. Touch and hold anywhere on the map or enter a location in the search field. Tap Directions or the travel mode button (the Driving button, the Walking button, the Transit button, or the Cycling button), then tap Go.

The Maps app showing the search field, categories for nearby services, and city guides. In the bottom part of the screen is the iPhone onscreen keyboard.

Discover what’s nearby

When you’re in an unfamiliar area, find nearby places like restaurants, shops, or services. Tap the search field and simply start typing, or tap a category below Find Nearby, like Restaurants.

A moveable, 360-degree panoramic view appears above a map of the area marked in the Maps app. The Look Around icon overlaid on the map points in the direction of the view.

See the world in added detail

Depending on the location, you can explore it in 360-degree panoramic views. In select cities, tap the Look Around button near the bottom of a map.

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