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Google Maps for iOS has been updated today to 4.7.0 and includes a neat new feature introduced to Android users back in April which allows users to send places they find on their desktop to Google Maps on mobile, among other things.

The new feature, once enabled properly (you need Google Maps installed and to be signed-in on both devices), works by typing the "send directions" query into a Google search on a laptop or other desktop computer, and then brings up a card like the one pictured above. The card actually uses the location Google has on your phone and will map directions from its location to wherever you want to go, which is pretty smart. Clicking "Sending directions to my phone" will trigger a notification on your iPhone which will launch to directions in Google Maps.

Two smaller capabilities coming with this update to Maps for iOS are the ability to add or edit the business hours of places, and view all of the reviews and photos you've shared of places from the "Your profiles profile. Also included in this update are, of course, the usual "bug fixes."

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