Apple Maps has quietly been updated to change the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America" when viewed by U.S. users. This comes a mere day after Google made the same change to its own Maps app.

Macworld Open the App Store app on your iPhone and pretty soon you’ll spot an ad: I’m seeing one for Temu on the front page, and a search for “monster hunter” surfaces another for Honkai: Star Rail before we get to any games of that name.

It’s 2025, and somehow, Apple Maps still doesn’t have ads. While virtually all of the competition has implemented some form of advertisements in their mobile

While alternatives like Google Maps and Waze do exist, many users take issue with some of the ways those brands operate. That includes the monetisation of search-based ads – and

Reports say that Apple is thinking about making money off of its Maps software by incorporating Apple Maps Paid Search