{"id":8007,"date":"2020-04-29T13:18:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T13:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2535855"},"modified":"2020-04-29T13:18:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T13:18:00","slug":"apple-maps-now-shows-covid-19-testing-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/04\/29\/apple-maps-now-shows-covid-19-testing-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Maps now shows COVID-19 testing sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/L3YtiDF1CzfQnQ6EO9Pxknt2svk=\/0x0:2040x1360\/1310x873\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_image\/image\/66723918\/akrales_180620_1777_0011.0.jpg\" width=\"795\" height=\"530\" data-pre-sourced=\"yes\" data-sourced=\"yes\" data-original=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/L3YtiDF1CzfQnQ6EO9Pxknt2svk=\/0x0:2040x1360\/1310x873\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_image\/image\/66723918\/akrales_180620_1777_0011.0.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/L3YtiDF1CzfQnQ6EO9Pxknt2svk=\/0x0:2040x1360\/1310x873\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_image\/image\/66723918\/akrales_180620_1777_0011.0.jpg\" \/><\/span><small>Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales \/ The Verge<\/small><\/p>\n<p>Apple Maps will now show COVID-19 testing sites in all 50 states and Puerto Rico (via&nbsp;<em>TechCrunch<\/em>). When you search using terms like &ldquo;COVID-19 test&rdquo; or &ldquo;coronavirus test,&rdquo; places that offer COVID-19 tests will be marked on your map. If you start typing COVID-19 into the search bar, you&rsquo;ll also see the &ldquo;COVID-19 Testing&rdquo; search term appear at the top of your search bar, like what you&rsquo;d see if you started typing something like &ldquo;groceries&rdquo; or &ldquo;coffee shops.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Apple&rsquo;s information cards for the testing sites include the site&rsquo;s hours, address, and phone number, as well as a warning that &ldquo;COVID-19 testing may require a doctor&rsquo;s referral and an appointment at the testing center&rdquo; and a link to the website of the healthcare provider offering the test.<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside><q>Apple launched a portal to let healthcare providers submit their information<\/q><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>The new testing sites in Apple Maps follow Apple launching&nbsp;a web portal&nbsp;last week to let hospitals and healthcare providers submit their information to be shown on Apple Maps, which was&nbsp;spotted by&nbsp;<em>9to5Mac<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Google began listing COVID-19 test centers in search results for much of the US&nbsp;on April 17th, and as part of those results, you can see testing centers near you displayed on a map except if you live in Maine, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Oregon, or Pennsylvania. But it appears the search company doesn&rsquo;t show nearly as many test centers when you search for them directly in Google Maps as Apple does on Apple Maps.<\/p>\n<p>Apple&rsquo;s app shows a number of test centers in Arizona, for example, while searching for a test center on Google Maps for the state doesn&rsquo;t show a testing center there. However, if you do a Google search for COVID-19 testing in Arizona, Google will surface a map with some test centers in the state. Google tells&nbsp;<em>The Verge<\/em>&nbsp;that it&rsquo;s working to bring testing center information to Google Maps in addition to search results.<\/p>\n<p>Apple has also made some updates to its&nbsp;mobility trends site, including adding more cities such as Las Vegas, New Orleans, Portland, Salt Lake City, and San Diego.<\/p>\n<p>Apple and Google have also teamed up on a&nbsp;coronavirus tracking system&nbsp;that will be&nbsp;built into iOS and Android.<\/p>\n<aside>\n<div data-anthem-component=\"readmore\" data-anthem-component-data=\"{&quot;stories&quot;:[{&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Apple makes user location data from Apple Maps available to help COVID-19 relief efforts&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/4\/14\/21220860\/apple-maps-mobility-location-data-covid-19&quot;},{&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Apple and Google pledge to shut down coronavirus tracker when pandemic ends&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/4\/24\/21234457\/apple-google-coronavirus-contact-tracing-tracker-exposure-notification-shut-down&quot;},{&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Apple and Google are building a coronavirus tracking system into iOS and Android&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/4\/10\/21216484\/google-apple-coronavirus-contract-tracing-bluetooth-location-tracking-data-app&quot;}]}\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><em><strong>Update April 28th, 9:08PM ET<\/strong><\/em><em>: Clarified that Google does show testing centers in maps in search results, but does not show as many centers when searching for them in Google Maps.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Correction<\/strong><\/em><em>: We stated in the latest update to this story that Google search results for COVID-19 testing in New York City surfaces testing centers in the city on a map. It does not. We regret the error. We have changed the example used in this story to Arizona to provide a more accurate comparison of data shown across Apple Maps, Google Maps, and the map surfaced in Google search results.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n<div><strong>See Campaign: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/4\/28\/21240546\/apple-maps-covid-19-testing-sites-mobility-trends\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/4\/28\/21240546\/apple-maps-covid-19-testing-sites-mobility-trends<\/a><br \/><b>Contact Information:<\/b><br \/>Jay Peters<\/p>\n<p><b>Tags:<\/b><br \/><a href=\"\"><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/artificial-intelligence-newswire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Artificial Intelligence Newswire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/wire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/global-regions\/united-states\/\" rel=\"category tag\">United States<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/language\/english\/\" rel=\"category tag\">English<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"image\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"cwdfimg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Contact Information:<\/h3>\n<p>Jay Peters<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales \/ The Verge Apple Maps will now show COVID-19 testing sites in all 50 states and Puerto Rico (via&nbsp;TechCrunch). When you search using terms like &ldquo;COVID-19 test&rdquo; or &ldquo;coronavirus test,&rdquo; places that offer COVID-19 tests will be marked on your map. If you start typing COVID-19 into the search bar, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/04\/29\/apple-maps-now-shows-covid-19-testing-sites\/\">Continue reading <span>Apple Maps now shows COVID-19 testing sites<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/04\/29\/apple-maps-now-shows-covid-19-testing-sites\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,3,22,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence-newswire","category-english","category-united-states","category-wire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Apple Maps now shows COVID-19 testing sites - Business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/04\/29\/apple-maps-now-shows-covid-19-testing-sites\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Apple Maps now shows COVID-19 testing sites - Business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales \/ The Verge Apple Maps will now show COVID-19 testing sites in all 50 states and Puerto Rico (via&nbsp;TechCrunch). 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