Apple Maps is getting ads, but don’t expect help when your toilet explodes

MacDailyNews
Jul 16, 2026, 10:00 am105 pts
Apple is preparing to introduce advertising to its Maps app in the United States and Canada this summer, but the company has drawn some distinctly Apple-style lines in the sand about who gets to advertise there. In a new Advertising Services policy update, Apple explicitly prohibits several ad categories from…

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