They’re a part of the app’s Guides characteristic and can be found for choose landmarks in 5 US cities.
Apple now hyperlinks to Hidden Histories podcast episodes inside Maps for choose landmarks in 5 US cities. As Apple Insider has seen, sure landmarks in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York Metropolis, Chicago and Washington, DC now present a panel in Maps that hyperlinks straight to podcasts about their histories while you view their data within the app.
If you faucet the panel in Maps, it will take you to an interface the place you may see the remainder of the landmarks within the metropolis with linked podcast guides. The New York ones, as an illustration, embrace talks on Occasions Sq., the Statue of Liberty, Central Park, the Museum of Broadway, Grand Central Terminal, the Charging Bull, Studio 54 and Tin Pan Alley. The Los Angeles podcasts embrace episodes on the historical past of the Hollywood Signal and the Hollywood Stroll of Fame, whereas San Francisco’s embrace Alcatraz and the Farallon Islands.
The Hidden Histories podcasts reside beneath the Guides part within the Maps app. Like different issues beneath Guides, similar to lists of locations to go curated by numerous publishers, you possibly can faucet the + icon and add podcasts to your assortment. You possibly can then revisit and hearken to them one other day by pulling up the panel from the underside a part of Maps after which wanting on the “Your Guides” part.
