During the last beta of iOS 9, developers and public beta testers were able to see the Nearby feature when swiping to right on their iPhone or iPad. This Maps feature allowed instant shortcuts to points of interest near your location.
However, when iOS 9 was publicly released, the feature disappeared, as many of you told us it was no where to be found. As of last night, it appears the feature has now been enabled again:
Apple’s iOS 9 feature availability page only lists the USA and China for their Nearby feature within Maps. It looks like Canada will soon be added to that list.
Are you seeing Nearby on your iPhone or iPad right now?
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Yup, Nearby is currently working on my iPhone 6.
It is showing up for me on my iPhone 6s Plus
I have Nearby activated on my iPhone 6S Plus, running iOS 9.0.1 (haven’t installed the developer beta of iOS 9.1 yet)
Yup, see it.
It’s showing up for me as well. Looking forward to checking this out. Should be especially handy while travelling.
It is now as well for the whole time I thought it was. Glitch and apple care tried to fix it lol
Yup, came back here as well, and I’m still on 9.0. Seems odd that it would come back so soon after officially disappearing in the 9.0 release. Seems likely that Apple is merely testing this for now, particularly since they haven’t updated their feature availability page.
Nice, but Nearby is by no means a complete offering of what is nearby. Looking forward to Apple improving completeness of information.
I strongly suspect that may be exactly why Apple pulled it in the first place, and why it’s still not “officially” available yet.
Interestingly I see it on my 6S but not my 6 – both running 9.1 Beta 2.
It appeared this morning and not it as disappeared again
I saw it earlier and now it is gone. Too bad!!!
And now it’s gone again.
Saw it for the first time around lunchtime today (September 29th), then it was gone again… :/
Yeah mine was there.
Then it disappeared.
Did it come back at all for you?
Nope, never saw it again after that one time.
It’s back again
I’m seeing it too right now (Oct. 8, 5pm).
It’s been appearing for me all day in the main Search screen, but it’s nowhere to be seen in the Maps app itself yet.
It’s disappeared again for me again
It’s back again!