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hey guys it's Brandon I'm in front pocket now calm at long last Google has released Google Maps for iOS devices ending our frustrations with Apple maps it's a really awesome application but there are a lot of hidden gestures that you need to know about if you have an iPhone in this video we're going to cover all of them let's get to it okay lots to talk about here and be sure you subscribe to the pocket now video YouTube channel that way you know first when we upload new videos we'll put a link up up here so you can subscribe easily so let's get into it here now of course in all maps applications you can pinch to zoom right but that's really a two-handed affair you need to take out your other hand to study the phone and then you can do the pinch to zoom in Google Maps here in iOS there's a new way to zoom with really one hand and the way you do that is you double tap and slide you see that so you double tap anywhere you want to zoom and slide your finger up and down as if the screen becomes a zoom slider and you could do that with any finger just a really handy convenient way to zoom in and zoom out really quickly if you don't want to use two hands the other gesture well there are several more gestures we're going to show you the other gesture which isn't new to maps apps is the the rotate I guess the rotate of the map which is great especially if you're in a city where you have these beautiful building models and the other gesture is the two finger tilt right so Apple Maps has this and Google Maps has have this a while for a while on Android but the last Google Maps update for iOS Y was a five didn't have this capability which was quite frustrating so it's awesome to see it back in iOS because it's so handy if you're moving around and you want to reposition various things on the screen the next thing we want to show you is the side menu which of course you can access down here by tapping that that'll allow you to turn on satellite view public transit and get traffic information there's actually a quicker way to access that it's not as intuitive you take two fingers and you swipe in from the center of the screen on the right so watch and there it goes so depending on how you are oriented if you are walking down the street you obviously are going to press the button down here because it's a one-handed thing if you're on a tabletop like I am here the two finger swipe seems to work very very well another tip here is that you definitely want to sign in to your google account like I have here that way you get your search history and if you're using an Android device if you have an Android device or if you've set up Google to know where you live and where you work it's really convenient because it places the markers right on the map which is fantastic and again it keeps a search history here of all of the things that you've searched for so you can go back and see what you've been looking for now from this menu which is accessible over here with this little person icon you can access the settings and there aren't that many settings there's one thing that I've turned off here is the shake to send feedback because I've had some accidental shakes just by walking around using Google Maps and it brings up this screen that says do you want to send feedback and I really don't want to be bothered with that so I turn that off now something else that you can do here in terms of gesture well let's search for pizza right now we're going to search for pizza New York and what we get is the map that we're used to and all these points of interest that you can tap on but another way that you can navigate and you just saw down there is you swipe from side to side to go through all of the different results that you have on the screen here it's just a nice way to interact and see the marker jump around so you can find out which pizza place is closest to you and you can from here click on the car and it's going to be a long drive and this is the navigation it's got real built-in navigation the various routes are shown to you whether you want to take take a route that has more traffic or less traffic or more tolls or less tools and so forth and you find the one that you want which leads us to our next tip when we click start what you have here is your guided instructions and you can swipe here at the top to get a preview of all the turns that you're going to make Apple Maps doesn't let you do this and it's great to be able to like move along your route and see exactly which turns you're going to make and kind of plan your trip and see what's going on that way so that was a look at Google Maps on iOS right now it's iPhone only you might be wondering if there's an iPad app coming if I were a betting man I would say yes there's definitely a Google Maps version coming for the iPad in the next few months more people have iPhones then do iPads so Google just wanted to release the product first for the most amount of people if you're wondering how the iPhone 5 is holding up we have an after the buzz episode where we talked about how the device is holding up after several months of use after the newness and the buzz wore off from the initial time spent with the device so if you want to see that we're going to put a link up on the video it's highly recommended really interesting and if you like this video please shoot us a thumbs up and thanks for watching that's it for now you