Following the completed rollout of App Privacy labels for its App Store apps, Google today updated the Google Maps app for the first time in four months.
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In December, Apple began to require all new app submissions and app updates to include App Privacy Labels, detailing the data collected by the app, so consumers know what they’re sharing.
Google didn’t start implementing App Privacy labels until February, and Google apps went without an update for several months. Gmail went without updates for so long that it started warning users that it was out of date, but no update was available.
Google Maps was updated with app privacy labels in early April, and alongside Google Photos, it was one of the last apps to get data collection details.
Now that Google Maps is compliant with the App Store rules, Google can update it again. The current refresh of version 5.65 is small in scale and offers bug fixes that improve the Google Maps app, but Google is now free to add additional features in the future.