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Is Visited Places in Apple Maps available in the EU? Not yet. It launched elsewhere on 15 Sep 2025, 416 days ago, and is still not available in the EU. Last checked 5 Nov 2026.

DelayedApple

Visited Places in Apple Maps

Not available in the EU

Day 416.

days since it launched elsewhere

Who is left outThe EU. No EU country is on Apple's list, only the French overseas department of Réunion. The UK, Switzerland and Norway have it. Some other big markets, such as Japan, India and Brazil, are not on the list either, but the EU is the only place where we found Apple saying it held the feature back.

Clock started15 Sep 2025. iOS 26 shipped on 15 Sep 2025, and Apple named Visited Places in that day's release.

Next milestoneDay 500 on 28 Jan 2027

Last checked5 Nov 2026 · 6 sources

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Why not yet?

Apple saysApple says the Digital Markets Act is why: "We’ve also had to delay useful features like Visited Places and Preferred Routes on Maps" (Apple Newsroom, 24 Sep 2025).
The EU saysAnswering Apple's wider complaint, Commission spokesman Thomas Regnier said there is "nothing in the DMA that requires companies to lower their privacy standards, their security standards" (25 Sep 2025). We found no Commission comment on Visited Places itself (checked 5 Nov 2026).

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Sources
  1. Apple: iOS feature availability, Maps: Visited Places (read 5 Nov 2026)
  2. Apple Newsroom: The Digital Markets Act’s impacts on EU users (24 Sep 2025)
  3. Apple Newsroom: New versions of Apple’s software platforms are available today (15 Sep 2025)
  4. MacRumors: EU has no intention to repeal DMA following Apple challenge (25 Sep 2025)
  5. heise: "Visited Places" tracking in Apple Maps, where it works (13 Nov 2025)
  6. iPhoneSoft: iPhone, iPad, Mac, 10 features missing in Europe in 2026 (11 Oct 2026)
Start date15 Sep 2025. iOS 26 shipped on 15 Sep 2025, and Apple named Visited Places in that day's release.
Stops whenStops when any EU member state appears under "Maps: Visited Places" on Apple's iOS feature availability page.
Last checked5 Nov 2026
Wording"Europe" means the UK is left out too. "The EU" means the company's exclusion does not name the UK; other countries left out are named above.
MistakesFixed in public on the corrections page.

How we checked this

StatusVerified: every key fact checked against the company or the EU itself. Trust score 100/100 (how it works).
Proof it is still missing
  • “Maps: Visited Places Albania Andorra Armenia Aruba Australia Barbados Canada Chile Colombia Costa Rica Curaçao Dominican Republic Kazakhstan Malaysia Mexico Monaco New Zealand Norway Qatar Réunion Saint Barthélemy Serbia Singapore Sint Maarten South Africa Switzerland Taiwan Thailand The Cayman Islands Turks and Caicos Islands United Kingdom United States” on Apple: iOS feature availability, Maps: Visited Places, seen 5 Nov 2026 (a page the company keeps updated)
  • “We’ve also had to delay useful features like Visited Places and Preferred Routes on Maps” on Apple Newsroom: The Digital Markets Act’s impacts on EU users, seen 5 Nov 2026 (a dated page, which will not change)
Backed by3 first-hand sources (the company or the EU), from 4 publishers: Apple, macrumors.com, heise.de, iphonesoft.fr.
Watching for arrivalOn each check run we re-read every source a script can open. Pages that block scripts are read by hand when we research that timer, and the date above shows when. Check runs are started by hand, not on a schedule. We also scan the company's news feed for this feature. If the proof above disappears, the next run flags the timer and we research it that day.
Change log
  • 5 Nov 2026 Apple's list names the UK.
  • 5 Nov 2026 New timer. Apple's availability page read today lists 32 places and no EU member state, apart from Réunion. Apple Newsroom (24 Sep 2025) names Visited Places as delayed by the DMA. iPhoneSoft (11 Oct 2026) still reports it missing. Preferred Routes, the same Apple sentence, is not a separate timer: the UK is out too and Apple does not explain that.

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