Apple Maps now shows the Gulf of America

Apple is renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America successful its Maps app. The institution started rolling retired the sanction alteration for US users this afternoon, and Bloomberg reports that it volition soon show the sanction for users globally, too.

Google Maps started showing the “Gulf of America” for users successful the US connected Monday. President Donald Trump signed an enforcement bid for the sanction alteration successful January, and the alteration entered the national naming database, the Geographic Names Information System, this week.

Unlike Apple, Google Maps displays antithetic names depending connected a user’s location. Users successful Mexico volition proceed to spot the assemblage of h2o labeled arsenic the “Gulf of Mexico,” and users successful different countries volition spot “Gulf of Mexico” alongside “Gulf of America” successful parentheses. Other mapping apps, similar Microsoft’s Bing and MapQuest, proceed to amusement the Gulf of Mexico.

Apple presently offers its Maps app crossed the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and in beta connected the web. The Verge reached retired to Apple with a petition for much accusation astir the alteration but didn’t instantly perceive back.