SEO & Local Search

Apple Maps Place Card

An Apple Maps place card is the location profile that presents a business or place and available details and actions inside Apple Maps.

An Apple Maps place card helps people evaluate a location without first visiting its website. Depending on eligibility and the place, it may show an address, directions, hours, contact information, photographs, website access and other actions. People encounter these details while searching or browsing in Maps. Inaccurate details can send a customer to a closed office or an outdated phone number.

For businesses, place-card management now sits in Apple's broader business tools, including Apple Business. Apple documents branded assets and action links, although options depend on the location, authorization and applicable feature support. A service-area company should not assume that every storefront-oriented field applies to an operation without a public customer location. Delegated management by an agency may require explicit access.

This term describes the displayed location entity. Apple Maps marketing is the wider practice of improving location accuracy, presentation and customer paths. A complete place card does not promise any particular search position, and some changes must pass Apple's review.