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Apple recently released wonderful street view style look around photos.

Is there a way to show these on non-Mac-hardware? Like in a Browser?

  • Opening https://maps.apple.com does not work on non-Macs.

  • I thought I could use an iPad on Browserstack.com App live - but I cannot start the Maps app there.

  • https://duckduckgo.com/ uses Apple maps, when you search for a location and switch to maps, but there the Look Around feature is missing

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Edit: Apple Maps now have Look Around support on the web at https://beta.maps.apple.com/

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Apple does not officially support using the Look Around feature on non-Apple devices. However, someone managed to reverse-engineer Apple's internal Maps API. Their work is available on GitHub.

You can use the webapp here: https://lookmap.eu.pythonanywhere.com/.

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    Welcome to Ask Different. Is this using Apple Maps data? Is this a “no answer” and suggesting an alternative to what is being asked?
    – bmike ♦
    Commented Jun 7 at 20:26
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    Looks like exactly what I looked for, thanks a lot. No reason to downvote.
    – Alex
    Commented Jun 8 at 20:19
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Apple is restricting Look Around, and Maps in general, to its devices. There's no way (as far as I know) to use Look Around natively on Windows or on a non-Apple device.

Yet, there are two workarounds to use Look Around on Linux/Windows :

  1. Use Appetize.io, an online iPhone simulator (limited to 60 sec in its free version).
  2. Install macOS on a Virtual Machine. It takes a lot of time, and is only legal if the host machine is a Mac.
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