You should try Flight Simulator with a controller in Party Games, it based on Flyover from MapKit, it looks so realistic!

I found the hard part to be turning live MapKit flythrough into an exportable mp4 MapKit wouldn't render tiles off-screen. So... - pre-fly the whole route once to warm the tile cache - scrub the camera frame by frame - capture with drawHierarchy(afterScreenUpdates: true) - feed CVPixelBuffers into AVAssetWriter

You get this also with third party apps that use Apples MapKit on iOS 27. Really impressive. All iPhones that run iOS 26 will be able to run iOS 27 amd get this.

Apple's MapKit is pretty good.

Apple's MapKit still doesn't provide a stable unique identifier for a POI

Built the full Mild app flow this week. A cooking app, fully native iOS. You filter meals, get 92 recipes (ours and AI-generated), open a dish, and if you're missing ingredients it builds a shopping list and sends you to Apple Maps with every nearby grocery pinned. From "what do I cook" to the store in one tap-through.Stack: native Swift/UIKit, MapKit, Node.js, MongoDB, GPT-4o. Started in Figma, now fully native. Most of it is pair-built with an AI agent. It glitches constantly: hallucinates code, edits the wrong file, swears a build shipped when it didn't. The skill now isn't coding, it's steering and not giving up. It breaks, I keep pushing, it ships.

Reproducible MapKit crashes in Simulator. Console shows some Metal error when this happens.

The example shown above is not a good one because you can just add the macro. But WWDC shows an example with a MapKit struct that we cannot modify. It's coming with limitations though (you cannot sort & predicate it)

Did you know MapKit JS 6 is built around today's web development practices? npm packages, TypeScript support, modular loading and more. Add Apple Maps' data quality and design to your website with user privacy built into its foundation. webkit.org/blog/18027/discov…

Xcode27でMapKitを含むプロジェクトをビルドしたらデバッグ環境でのみランタイムエラーが発生するようになった 発生条件を精査してフィードバックを送ろう✍️

have u seen any MapKit API that can play around with this or is it just the app?

Apple Maps got a full 3D rebuild. This is Madrid from above — buildings rendered in real geometry, not just textures. Apple spent the last four years rebuilding Maps ground-up. With iOS 27, you can see the difference. The technical detail: Apple is using a combination of LiDAR data, aerial photography, and machine learning to generate 3D building geometry. The result is much closer to a real city model than the previous version. What changes for users: → Flyover mode now works in 200 cities (was 30 ) → Navigation shows building geometry in 3D when approaching turns → Look Around (Apple's Street View) now has 3D building data → Search results show 3D previews for landmarks → Walking directions show terrain in 3D (hills, stairs, bridges) The practical impact: navigation in dense cities (Madrid, Barcelona, NYC, Tokyo) is significantly more intuitive. You can recognize the corner you're turning at because the building is rendered. The privacy story is the same as before: Apple's Maps data doesn't identify you, doesn't tie to your Apple ID, and uses on-device processing for personal context (Home, Work). For developers: MapKit gets the 3D API. You can now embed the same 3D building data in your own apps (with proper licensing). Maps used to be the joke of Apple's software efforts. With this rebuild, it's competitive with Google Maps in most regions and ahead in privacy. #WWDC26 #AppleMaps #iOS27

So did MapKit get any sdk updates on iOS 27? @grok ???

No updates to MapKit this year (same as last year)! See you next year 👋🏻 #wwdc26