{"id":2603,"date":"2025-04-26T09:46:21","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T09:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=2603"},"modified":"2025-04-26T09:46:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T09:46:21","slug":"blame-your-phone-for-killing-off-this-traditional-windows-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/archives\/2603","title":{"rendered":"Blame your phone for killing off this traditional Windows app"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\nAndroid and iOS smartphones (and Bing!) have made Maps redundant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Windows-Maps-app.png?w=1024\" alt=\"Windows Maps app\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you\u2019ve ever used your phone to navigate from one appointment to the next, then you\u2019ve probably never used Windows Maps. That\u2019s basically why Microsoft is getting rid of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In anongoing calendar of deprecated features within Windows, Microsoft has targeted Maps for deprecation by April. It will be removed from the Windows Store by July and will no longer be supported, the company said. In July, a new update will turn the Maps app off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAny personal data or files you have saved, such as guided navigation or URLs to maps, won\u2019t be removed, but they\u2019ll no longer function in the Maps app past July 2025,\u201d Microsoft said. The Maps app won\u2019t come preinstalled on new PCs past the current Windows 11 24H2 release, either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maps will still be supported within Windows, however. You\u2019ll simply have to visitBing\u2019s own maps pageto access them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maps is a legacy app that was invaluable on Windows Phones, though that platform died years ago. Now, there\u2019s no real reason to hold on to Maps, or to add those few kilobytes to the install size of Windows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&gt;&gt;&gt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/microsoft-battery-G3HTA071H-p1786521.htm\">Replacement battery for Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio 1964<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maps, whose data is credited to both TomTom and Microsoft itself, also previously agreed to change the \u201cGulf of Mexico\u201d to the \u201cGulf of America.\u201d So if that riles you up, you\u2019ll be glad to see Maps go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Android and iOS smartphones (and Bing!) have made Maps redundant. If you\u2019ve ever used your phone to navigate from one appointment to the next, then you\u2019ve probably never used Windows Maps. That\u2019s basically why Microsoft is getting rid of it. In anongoing calendar of deprecated features within Windows, Microsoft has targeted Maps for deprecation by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/archives\/2603\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blame your phone for killing off this traditional Windows app&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2604,"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603\/revisions\/2604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}