APPLE RELEASES NEW APPLE MAPS “CITY EXPERIENCE” FOR LOS ANGELES IN iOS 15 BETA 5
August 2021


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• Only Los Angeles has been released at this time. (Apple has not yet released new “city experiences” for New York or the four other cities it pre-announced during the WWDC 2021 keynote—i.e., San Diego, Philadelphia, Washington, and London.)

• Large parts of Greater Los Angeles, including Orange County (e.g. Anaheim, Santa Ana, and Irvine), Santa Clarita, Simi Valley, Thousand Oaks, and most of the Inland Empire (e.g., Ontario, Riverside, San Bernardino, and all areas east of Pomona and Claremont) are not included as part of the “city experience”. In other words, Apple’s enhanced detail for the Los Angeles area only covers the southern half of Los Angeles County:


• The coverage area for Los Angeles’s enhanced detail is also smaller than Apple’s coverage area for the Bay Area. (Apple’s Bay Area coverage area covers roughly 2,500 sq mi, while Apple’s L.A. coverage area covers 1,400 sq mi.):


• Apple’s fourteen new, colorful landmark models for the Los Angeles area include the Capitol Records Building, Dodger Stadium, the Getty Center, Hollywood Bowl, the Hollywood Sign, Los Angeles City Hall, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Placita Olvera, Randy’s Donuts, Rose Bowl Stadium, TCL Chinese Theatre, Vincent Thomas Bridge, Walt Disney Concert Hall, and the Westin Bonaventure Hotel.

• Even though Greater Los Angeles is more than twice as populous as the San Francisco Bay Area, far fewer structures received new, colorful models than the Bay Area (roughly, three-fourths fewer). For example, Los Angeles’s tallest buildings—Wilshire Grand Center and U.S. Bank Tower—didn’t receive colorful models, nor did any of the Apple Stores, Santa Monica Pier, Staples Center, or Griffith Observatory.

⚠️ UPDATE | August 25, 2021

Two weeks after releasing its enhanced detail for the Los Angeles area, Apple added nineteen more landmark models—bringing Los Angeles’s total to thirty-three.






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