Apple has announced [apple.com] some impressive improvements to their business services being integrated into Apple Maps. Users will have more hands-on control with these changes, such as editing their business listing and updating location pins shown on the map. On January 11,2023 Apple launched the new Apple Business Connect portal: [apple.com...]

Apple Maps today is gaining a new tool that will allow the decade-plus-old service to better compete with Google: It will now allow business owners to update and manage their own information on the platform, including key details like business hours and location, photos, logos, special offers and promotions, and more. To do so, the company is launching a new web portal called Apple Business Connect, which lets businesses manage their presence across Apple’s 1.5 billion devices from a single dashboard.

More changes will be added though not yet included, such as the ability to receive text messages from customers, and delegating management of the listing to third parties of their choice.

Currently, the announced improvements are available in these languages: English, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.