'I'll just use Google Maps': Apple Maps users rebel against new ads that you can't turn off, even…
- Apple Maps is now showing ads for users in the US and Canada
- Currently, ads appear as the top result in search and Suggested Places
- Users are unsurprisingly unhappy about this change, with some saying they'll switch to Google Maps
We’ve known they were coming for a while, but now ads have started appearing in Apple Maps for users in the US and Canada, meaning that not every result you see on the search screen will be organically placed.
As confirmed by Apple to 9to5Mac, Apple Maps is now starting to show ads in ‘Suggested Places’ on the search screen before you enter a search query, and in the search results.
In both cases you’ll at most see one ad, and this will be at the top of that section, with a blue ‘ad’ label marking it out. So at least they should be easy to ignore and...
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