Late last year, Apple crowned the best iPhone app of 2023 – now the tech giant is planning to integrate some of the best features into its own maps app. In its 14-year history, AllTrails has become an integral part of the hiking community, used by 60 million people worldwide to access details of over 400,000 trails in nearly 200 countries. Earlier this year, the San Francisco-based company unveiled its , which gives land managers from agencies like the National Parks Service access to trail-use insights and the ability edit trail information and send real-time alerts for more accurate information.
Companies like Apple know good ideas when they see them, and in yesterday's , the Cupertino-based corporation revealed exactly which features of AllTrails they're most impressed with by revealing their intentions to imitate them. Later this year, users of Apple Maps – that's the free maps app that comes preinstalled on any iPhone, iPad, MacBook and – will start to see features that will be very familiar to AllTrails users. In Apple Maps, you'll soon be able to access and browse thousands of hikes across US National Parks, and create your own custom walking routes which you can download and access offline.
You can also save your favorite National Park hikes to an all-new Places Library where you can add details and notes about each trail. These functions will be free to Apple Maps users – for now, at least – but in AllTrails they're currently only available in , which costs.
