Apple working on live status updates for businesses in Apple Maps

Apple appears to be working on a new feature that will let users know how busy a place of interest is or whether it's open, similar to the way Google Maps does.

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In the latest iOS 14.5 beta, a Redditor spotted new text in the Location Services privacy page in Settings indicating that Apple would be crowd-sourcing live status data for points of interest. That data could be leveraged to let users know whether a business or other point of interest is open and how busy it currently is, likely in Apple Maps.

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