Google has released updates for two of its iOS apps, Google Maps and Chrome. Apple has also released an update for the iBooks app, making it available in Japan. This is the first update for Google Maps since its release on iOS and it adds some small new features. Chrome for iOS gets the ability [...]

Google’s had a terrain view for its maps app since 2007, but it’s never been available on the iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch until now. Ryan Petrich, a well-known iPhone homebrew developer recently released a Cydia tweak that unlocks the terrain view in the new Google maps app. The tweak: Topography for Google Maps unlocks a [...]

The Maps scene on iOS 6 has finally improved, thanks to the newly released Google Maps for iOS. The search engine company had promised that they would bring an official Google Maps app to iOS after Apple decided to ditch Google’s mapping service in iOS 6. Apple payed the price for doing so and had [...]

So you’ve got the new Google Maps for iOS, which is about 100 times better than Apple Maps, and you want to use it with Siri. The problem is, Siri only provides directions using Apple’s Maps app. There is however, a small trick that can be used to get directions from Google Maps. No jailbreak [...]

Lest you fear that Google has abandoned the iOS platform due to their ongoing rivalry with Apple, they’ve made some serious efforts to assure you otherwise this week. Earlier in the week, they released a fantastic Google Maps app for iOS with next to no forewarning; not only is Google’s excellent map data back on [...]

Google released an updated version of their Google Maps application on Wednesday night, which is in many ways an improvement over the original Google Maps app that came bundled in iOS 5 and the app in iOS 6 that Tim Cook publicly apologized for. But here’s the familiar problem: on a standard iPhone, iPad, or [...]

Unfortunately for iPad users, not every iPhone app is developed alongside a big screen counterpart. If you’re using Apple’s tablets without a jailbreak, you have to get used to the pseudo-iPhone interface, which is clumsy in 2X mode. One recent iPhone-only app is the newly released App Store version of Google Maps, which is a [...]

As most iPhone owners have probably heard by now, Google released their own Google Maps app for iOS 6 yesterday, after Apple dropped them as the built-in mapping service provider in favour of building their own service. It’s been a long couple of months for people who upgraded to iOS 6 and lost their Google Maps, getting [...]

Google finally released the long-awaited Google Maps application into the Apple App Store last night and it has already climbed to the number one spot in the App Store. There is nearly 12,000 reviews for Google Maps and almost all of which are positive. The two biggest criticisms about the latest Google Maps application is [...]

Well folks, it finally happened. That is right! The official Google Maps application has just been released for the iPhone and iPod Touch and it was definitely worth the wait. I have only briefly tested out the new Google Maps app, but let me tell you, it is definitely a huge improvement over the previous [...]