2012–2015
Flyover was announced along with Apple Maps at the 2012 World Wide Developers Conference, and both were released in September 2012. [6] Upon release, Flyover was only available in the iPhone 4s, iPad 2 and the 3rd generation iPad. [7] The 10 initial cities that first received Flyover were Chicago, Copenhagen, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, Montreal, Sacramento, San Francisco, Seattle and Sydney. [8] More cities would receive Flyover in later years, with Apple often adding multiple cities to Flyover at a time. [9] [10] In addition to this initial release, more cities were added later in 2012, including Toronto in Canada. [11]
In 2013, Flyover was added to Paris, as well as to smaller cities such as Indianapolis and Baltimore, totaling 16 cities in the United States, Germany, Canada, France and the UK, alongside coverage being expanded in several existing areas. [12] [13] In addition, Flyover was also added to London, Barcelona, Cologne, [14] Rome, and Madrid, [15] and Vancouver. [16]
Flyover was added to several cities and national parks in New Zealand, France, the United States, South Africa, Sweden and Japan, including Cape Town and two Arizona National Parks in 2014, [17] with Marseille, the second-largest city in France receiving Flyover coverage later in the year as well. [12] The capital of Japan, Tokyo, also received Flyover that year, [18] along with Wellington, New Zealand and Yosemite National Park. [19] In addition to adding new areas, the coverage of existing cities with the feature was expanded. In San Francisco, Flyover was added across the San Francisco Bay to Berkeley. [20] In mid-2014, the City Tours feature, which allows users to tour locations supported by the Flyover feature, was publicly released. [21]
Flyover was added to over 20 cities and locations in 2015 in various cities mostly across the US and Western Europe, including Canberra and Venice. [22] [23] [24] Flyover was also added to Budapest, in Hungary [25] and Prague and Brno in the Czech Republic later in the year. [26] In Italy, the cities of Florence and Genoa received Flyover. [27] [28] Guadalajara, the largest city in Mexico to have the feature, also received Flyover. [29] Japan also saw more cities with Flyover, with Nagoya, Osaka and Hiroshima being added, [30] and Mannheim, Stuttgart and Neuschwanstein Castle in Germany also received Flyover that year. [31] [27] An additional 7 cities received Flyover in June 2015, those being the cities of Karlsruhe and Kiel in Germany, Braga in Portugal, San Juan in Puerto Rico, Cadiz and Jerez de la Frontera in Spain, and Hull in the United Kingdom. [32]
2016–present
2016 saw Apple add Flyover to 20 additional locations in Australia, France, Switzerland, Germany, the US, the Netherlands, Japan, South Africa, Italy and Austria, including Adelaide in Australia and the Virgin Islands. [33] [34]
January 2019 saw one of Apple's largest Flyover expansions, with the feature being added to 51 cities in France, Japan, the United States, and others, including Albuquerque, Cincinnati and Key West as well as the entirety of the nation of Monaco. [35] [36]
After 2019 and during the COVID-19 pandemic, progress with the feature was considerably slower, largely in favor of other newer features. Despite this, Apple added some new Flyovers during and since then, expanding to Amsterdam in 2020 [37] [38] and Vienna in 2022. [39]
Another major rollout of Flyover occurred in 2024, with dozens of cities across North America, Australia, and Europe receiving the feature, including Washington D.C., [40] Kansas City, [41] and Brisbane. [42] These updates continued into 2025, with Lisbon, Frankfurt, Le Havre, Dunkirk and several other cities receiving Flyover. [43] [44] In July 2025, Flyover was added to the cities of Brasilia and Ouro Preto in Brazil, marking the first Brazilian and the first South American cities to receive Flyover. [45]
