page_title: Apple Look Around
section_title: Background
hierarchical_section_title: Apple Look Around / Background
caption_attribution_description: English: Apple Maps vehicle near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
context_page_description: 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.
context_section_description: 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.
  On August 4, 2020, Japan became the first country outside of the United States to gain the Look Around feature, with the cities of Kyoto, Tokyo, Osaka, and Nagoya added.
caption: An Apple Maps car near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in June 2019
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