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Apple Maps started offering a public web interface in beta testing last year. That web version of Maps is now compatible with Chrome on your Android phone. Apple Maps in Chrome still lacks some important desktop features, however. For years now, Apple and Google have been developing software and services for their users that fill the same niches. We’ve got Safari and Chrome, Apple Pay and Google Wallet, and countless others. Sometimes those efforts end up being extended across platform lines — you can run Gmail on an iPhone just fine — while others are much more locked down to that single ecosystem. Today we’re getting some news about at least one way the barriers between these worlds are starting to come down a little, as Apple Maps gets easier for non-Apple users to enjoy. Apple Maps has been available as a web service, just like Google Maps, through a beta test that began last summer. And while that opened the door for Apple’s mapping solution to PC users, the same wasn’t true on Android, where the site wasn’t compatible with the mobile Chrome browser.

Apple Maps started offering a public web interface in beta testing last year. That web version of Maps is now compatible with Chrome on your Android phone. Apple Maps in Chrome still lacks some important desktop features, however. For years now, Apple and Google have been developing software and services for their users that fill the same niches. We’ve got Safari and Chrome, Apple Pay and Google Wallet, and countless others. Sometimes those efforts end up being extended across platform lines — you can run Gmail on an iPhone just fine — while others are much more locked down to that single ecosystem. Today we’re getting some news about at least one way the barriers between these worlds are starting to come down a little, as Apple Maps gets easier for non-Apple users to enjoy. Apple Maps has been available as a web service, just like Google Maps, through a beta test that began last summer. And while that opened the door for Apple’s mapping solution to PC users, the same wasn’t true on Android, where the site wasn’t compatible with the mobile Chrome browser.

Apple Maps started offering a public web interface in beta testing last year. That web version of Maps is now compatible with Chrome on your Android phone. Apple Maps in Chrome still lacks some important desktop features, however. For years now, Apple and Google have been developing software and services for their users that fill the same niches. We’ve got Safari and Chrome, Apple Pay and Google Wallet, and countless others. Sometimes those efforts end up being extended across platform lines — you can run Gmail on an iPhone just fine — while others are much more locked down to that single ecosystem. Today we’re getting some news about at least one way the barriers between these worlds are starting to come down a little, as Apple Maps gets easier for non-Apple users to enjoy. Apple Maps has been available as a web service, just like Google Maps, through a beta test that began last summer. And while that opened the door for Apple’s mapping solution to PC users, the same wasn’t true on Android, where the site wasn’t compatible with the mobile Chrome browser.

Apple Maps started offering a public web interface in beta testing last year. That web version of Maps is now compatible with Chrome on your Android phone. Apple Maps in Chrome still lacks some important desktop features, however. For years now, Apple and Google have been developing software and services for their users that fill the same niches. We’ve got Safari and Chrome, Apple Pay and Google Wallet, and countless others. Sometimes those efforts end up being extended across platform lines — you can run Gmail on an iPhone just fine — while others are much more locked down to that single ecosystem. Today we’re getting some news about at least one way the barriers between these worlds are starting to come down a little, as Apple Maps gets easier for non-Apple users to enjoy. Apple Maps has been available as a web service, just like Google Maps, through a beta test that began last summer. And while that opened the door for Apple’s mapping solution to PC users, the same wasn’t true on Android, where the site wasn’t compatible with the mobile Chrome browser.

Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Chrome 135 brings an edge-to-edge layout to Android, letting web content extend behind the gesture bar. The update is rolling out gradually via a server-side switch. For now, it only works on small-screen devices using gesture navigation, not tablets or three-button navigation. Google is starting to roll out a more immersive look for Chrome on Android, bringing an edge-to-edge layout that uses more of your phone’s screen. The change was first debuted in testing last month, and it’s now beginning to reach more users as part of the Chrome 135 update. As 9to5Google demonstrated, the update lets Chrome draw content all the way down to the bottom of the screen, behind Android’s gesture navigation bar. That bar no longer appears on top of a solid background when scrolling. Instead, it floats transparently over web pages for a cleaner, full-screen feel.

Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Chrome 135 brings an edge-to-edge layout to Android, letting web content extend behind the gesture bar. The update is rolling out gradually via a server-side switch. For now, it only works on small-screen devices using gesture navigation, not tablets or three-button navigation. Google is starting to roll out a more immersive look for Chrome on Android, bringing an edge-to-edge layout that uses more of your phone’s screen. The change was first debuted in testing last month, and it’s now beginning to reach more users as part of the Chrome 135 update. As 9to5Google demonstrated, the update lets Chrome draw content all the way down to the bottom of the screen, behind Android’s gesture navigation bar. That bar no longer appears on top of a solid background when scrolling. Instead, it floats transparently over web pages for a cleaner, full-screen feel.

Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Chrome 135 brings an edge-to-edge layout to Android, letting web content extend behind the gesture bar. The update is rolling out gradually via a server-side switch. For now, it only works on small-screen devices using gesture navigation, not tablets or three-button navigation. Google is starting to roll out a more immersive look for Chrome on Android, bringing an edge-to-edge layout that uses more of your phone’s screen. The change was first debuted in testing last month, and it’s now beginning to reach more users as part of the Chrome 135 update. As 9to5Google demonstrated, the update lets Chrome draw content all the way down to the bottom of the screen, behind Android’s gesture navigation bar. That bar no longer appears on top of a solid background when scrolling. Instead, it floats transparently over web pages for a cleaner, full-screen feel.

Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Chrome 135 brings an edge-to-edge layout to Android, letting web content extend behind the gesture bar. The update is rolling out gradually via a server-side switch. For now, it only works on small-screen devices using gesture navigation, not tablets or three-button navigation. Google is starting to roll out a more immersive look for Chrome on Android, bringing an edge-to-edge layout that uses more of your phone’s screen. The change was first debuted in testing last month, and it’s now beginning to reach more users as part of the Chrome 135 update. As 9to5Google demonstrated, the update lets Chrome draw content all the way down to the bottom of the screen, behind Android’s gesture navigation bar. That bar no longer appears on top of a solid background when scrolling. Instead, it floats transparently over web pages for a cleaner, full-screen feel.

Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Chrome 135 brings an edge-to-edge layout to Android, letting web content extend behind the gesture bar. The update is rolling out gradually via a server-side switch. For now, it only works on small-screen devices using gesture navigation, not tablets or three-button navigation. Google is starting to roll out a more immersive look for Chrome on Android, bringing an edge-to-edge layout that uses more of your phone’s screen. The change was first debuted in testing last month, and it’s now beginning to reach more users as part of the Chrome 135 update. As 9to5Google demonstrated, the update lets Chrome draw content all the way down to the bottom of the screen, behind Android’s gesture navigation bar. That bar no longer appears on top of a solid background when scrolling. Instead, it floats transparently over web pages for a cleaner, full-screen feel.

Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Chrome 135 brings an edge-to-edge layout to Android, letting web content extend behind the gesture bar. The update is rolling out gradually via a server-side switch. For now, it only works on small-screen devices using gesture navigation, not tablets or three-button navigation. Google is starting to roll out a more immersive look for Chrome on Android, bringing an edge-to-edge layout that uses more of your phone’s screen. The change was first debuted in testing last month, and it’s now beginning to reach more users as part of the Chrome 135 update. As 9to5Google demonstrated, the update lets Chrome draw content all the way down to the bottom of the screen, behind Android’s gesture navigation bar. That bar no longer appears on top of a solid background when scrolling. Instead, it floats transparently over web pages for a cleaner, full-screen feel.