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Google Maps is back for iPhone

Google's excellent Maps app disappeared from Apple's iPhones and iPads with the October update to iOS 6, and Apple's new Native Maps was problematic to say the least. The new Google Maps made its debut in the App Store late Wednesday.
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Published: Dec. 13, 2012 at 12:23 AM
By GABRIELLE LEVY, UPI.com

After several painful months, Google Maps is back in the Apple App Store.

Apple users were horrified when, with the update to iOS 6 in October, the ever-trusty Google Maps disappeared off iPhones and iPads, only to be replaced by a problematic new Apple Maps.

The new Google Maps for iOS is not the same as the old Google Maps, but instead takes the years of Google data that makes its map programs so powerful, tailored specifically to Apple's gestures and interface.

Public transportation is back (although no biking directions, for now) and adds the turn-by-turn directions features that had been missing from previous iOS versions.

The app is agile and trim: features like 3D flyover are kept out in favor of the improved detail that was missing in Apple Maps.

The world rejoices.

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