Apple Look Around


Apple Look Around is a technology featured in Apple Maps that provides interactive panoramas from positions along a small number of streets in the United States.
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.

Background

In early 2015, vehicles equipped with twelve cameras and lidar sensors were seen in a variety of places throughout the United States. These vehicles were owned by Apple. 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.
In May 2019, Apple announced plans to begin collecting data for Apple Maps in Canada.
During WWDC on June 22, 2020, Apple announced its new maps would be coming to Ireland, the UK, and Canada later this year, and had started surveying parts of Belgium and the Netherlands.

Timeline of introductions

Coverage

Image collection

According to the company, Apple's vehicles have driven through, or are scheduled to drive through, the following countries:
CountryVehicle Locations
Andorra
Adelaide, Australian Capital Territory, Darwin, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney, Tasmania, Queensland
Brussels, Flanders
Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan
Split-Dalmatia County, Sibenik-Knin County
Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa
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
Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Berlin, Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Hesse, Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein, Thuringia
Carlow, Cavan, Clare, Cork, Donegal, Dublin, Galway, Kerry, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Leitrim, Limerick, Longford, Louth, Mayo, Meath, Monaghan, Offaly, Roscommon, Silgo, Tipperary, Waterford, Westmeath, Wexford, Wicklow
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
Aichi Prefecture, Chiba Prefecture, Fukuoka Prefecture, Hiroshima Prefecture, Hyōgo Prefecture, Ibaraki Prefecture, Ishikawa Prefecture, Kagawa Prefecture, Kanagawa Prefecture, Kyoto Prefecture, Mie Prefecture, Miyagi Prefecture, Nara Prefecture, Osaka Prefecture, Saitama Prefecture, Shiga Prefecture, Tokyo
Malta
Monaco
North Brabant
Oslo
Continental Portugal
San Marino
Ljubljana
Andalusia, Canary Islands, Catalonia, Community of Madrid, Valencian Community, Galicia, Castile and León, Basque Country, Castilla-La Mancha, Canary Islands, Region of Murcia, Aragon, Extremadura, Balearic Islands, Asturias, Navarre, Cantabria, La Rioja
Malmö, Skåne County, Stockholm County, Uppsala County
Gibraltar, England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Channel Islands, Isle of Man
Full coverage in all 50 U.S. states, Guam, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands