Apple Prepares for 2024 Summer Olympics With Updates to Maps, TV Coverage, Featured Apps and More

Apple this week updated the Apple Maps app in Paris in preparation for the 2024 Summer Olympics, which are set to begin on Friday, July 26. All permanent venues, such as the Parc de Princes and Centre Aquatique Olympique, are displayed as custom, hand-built 3D landmarks.

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Iconic sites like Gare de l'Est, Pont d'Iéna, and Place de la Madeleine are also rendered with more detail, and for the first time, the Maps app is displaying pop up locations that include temporary venues, souvenir shops, and public gathering sites. support for pop up locations will help attendees find important places for the summer games.

All game locations and ceremony sites have special icons to help visitors find where they need to be, and Apple says that Maps displays all of the latest updates on road closures and advisories due to the games to help users navigate the city. There are curated Maps Guides for restaurants, hotels, and shopping, with dozens of new Guides from Le Bonbon, Le Fooding, Radio France, Madame Figaro, and My Little Paris.

Along with the Maps updates, Apple plans to feature stories spotlighting popular events like gymnastics and swimming in the App Store, and it recommends that people download the official Paris 2024 Olympics app to follow along. Sports-themed mobile games and health and fitness apps will be highlighted as well.

Full coverage of Olympic events will be available through the Peacock and NBC Sports apps, which can be downloaded from the ‌App Store‌. A daily Olympic recap will be available on Peacock for fans in the U.S., offering customized playlists of highlights from relevant events from the prior day.

There is a dedicated NBC Olympics Hub in the Apple TV app for quick access to NBC coverage.

Apple Podcasts will feature shows and episodes celebrating sports and the power of gathering together in Paris, while Apple News will have curated coverage of the events and the stars of the games along with a schedule of events. Apple Music also plans to publish a Guide to French Music, which is an in-depth editorial feature of all the musical genres in France. It will go live later this week.

The Summer Olympics will begin next Friday with an Opening Ceremony that begins at 1:30 p.m. Eastern Time or 7:30 p.m. Paris time. Soccer games will begin on July 24, with badminton, handball, rowing, volleyball, fencing, field hockey, shooting, diving, and gymnastics set to begin on July 27. Events will continue until August 11.

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Top Rated Comments

antonrg Avatar
9 months ago
I wonder if they would include the fences the mayor has installed all over the city that have been making the lives of us, the locals, miserable for a a few weeks already…
Score: 8 Votes (Like | Disagree)
bobbybino Avatar
9 months ago
If they're going to say Gare de l'Est Station, shouldn't they also say Pont d'Iéna Bridge?
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
nutmac Avatar
9 months ago
List of cities with detailed city experience (as mentioned in the article, Paris will be further enhanced with temporary Olympics info):

* Atlanta, GA
* Berlin, Germany
* Boston, MA
* Chicago, IL
* Hamburg, Germany
* Las Vegas, NV
* London, United Kingdom
* Los Angeles, CA
* Melbourne, Australia
* Miami, FL
* Montréal, Canada
* Munich, Germany
* New York, NY
* Paris, France
* Philadelphia, PA
* San Diego, CA
* San Francisco Bay Area, CA
* Seattle, WA
* Sydney, Australia
* Toronto, Canada
* Vancouver, Canada
* Washington, DC
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Gator5000e Avatar
9 months ago
Will this dedicated NBC Olympics Hub in the Apple TV ('https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/apple-tv/') app be accessible on the 4K Apple TV?

On a side note, it's kind of criminal that the Peacock app will not have any 4K broadcasts of any kind. The only 4K will be through the USA Network so you better hope your provider broadcasts the USA 4K feed if you want to see anything in 4K.
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
phuklok1 Avatar
9 months ago
maps really needs a few super basic changes.

one, if you have a downloaded map, it should default to using that map over data and still allow you to use traffic. Currently, if you want to use the online map to save data, you cannot have live traffic, pretty darn stupid.

two, with regards to traffic, why does my 20-year-old Garmin show me traffic on all nearby routes but my iPhone hides everything except the traffic on the route it has selected giving me no option to see what’s going on?!
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
phuklok1 Avatar
9 months ago

Your second point I totally agree with. It’s a mystery what happens on nearby streets or alternative routes, making it impossible to make informed decisions. And Maps algorithm has its own issues so you can’t rely on it 100%.

But your first point has me baffled. You mean I download offline maps for nothing, when I still have reception???
sorry, i meant using offline (previously downloaded map). Why deny live traffic updates if data is available? it should at least be an additional option like the following:
1- use online maps/data (current default - high cellular data usage)
2- use offline map with online traffic updates (proposed option - low cellular data usage)
3- offline only (current option - no cellular data usage)
right now, we only have options 1 and 3. option 2 would allow someone to download a map at home on wifi (the biggest data usage), but allow the use minimal cellular data just for traffic, incidents, cameras, etc. I hope that makes sense. This helps people who don't have or can afford the luxury of unlimited data, travel the same region over and over (why download the same map daily when it's already stored, and supposedly automatically updated via wifi on the device), or perhaps they just have spotty coverage on their routes or area and this provides automatic redundancy.
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)