This motion-aided panning is only accessible when you're rearranging your widgets or shortcuts, but once you understand that a 90-degree turn will jump you three homescreens in a given direction, navigation can be made delightfully quick.

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With a database of approximately 1 million landmarks worldwide, users can enjoy various functions, such as Landmark Navigator which displays the distance to a nearby landmark in the direction the camera is faced towards, and Photo Navigation which displays the distance from the photographer's present location to the place where a tagged photo was taken.

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There's also a handful of elements that we seldom see in these apps, such as a direction-relative wind indicator, optional motion-driven navigation and visual themes.

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Second, GPS and turn-by-turn direction programs both benefit from the ability to access GPS content while another app is running such as a navigation program.

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Rather than integrating navigation directly within the Find My iPhone app, Apple is letting its default iOS Maps app handle all direction duties.

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