{"id":373487,"date":"2017-07-31T22:53:45","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T14:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/07\/31\/gboard-for-ios-google-maps\/"},"modified":"2017-07-31T22:53:45","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T14:53:45","slug":"gboard-for-ios-introduces-google-maps-youtube-and-doodling-ink-tabs-into-keyboard-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/gboard-for-ios-introduces-google-maps-youtube-and-doodling-ink-tabs-into-keyboard-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Gboard for iOS Introduces Google Maps, YouTube, and Doodling &#8216;Ink&#8217; Tabs Into Keyboard App"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gboard is Google&#8217;s own keyboard app for iOS devices, and today the company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.google\/products\/search\/gboard-iphone-adds-drawing-maps-and-youtube\/\">announced<\/a> that it&#8217;s integrating Google Maps and YouTube directly within the keyboard. The two new features will be housed behind the &#8220;G&#8221; button on Gboard, now sitting alongside Google Search.<\/p>\n<p>With Google Maps in Gboard, users can share their location, or another location that they wish to serve as a rendezvous point, and send the address to a contact in Messages. YouTube lets users search and send any YouTube video to friends and family directly from Gboard. There&#8217;s also a new &#8220;Ink&#8221; tab that lets users draw pieces of art to share with their contacts.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2017\/07\/gboard-update.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"713\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-578825\"\/><br \/>Outside of the Gboard app, Google also has a Google Maps app for Apple&#8217;s Messages App Store, which lets users send their location to a friend as an iMessage.<\/p>\n<p>Gboard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2016\/05\/12\/google-launches-gboard-keyboard\/\">originally launched<\/a> in May of 2016, with built-in Google search as its flagship feature, and was later updated with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2016\/10\/19\/gboard-ios-update-3d-touch\/\">3D Touch cursor tracking<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/02\/23\/gboard-google-doodle-emoji-voice-typing-languages\/\">voice support<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Gboard is one of the main iOS keyboard apps that users can install as an additional keyboard to text with on their iPhone or iPad. Microsoft&#8217;s SwiftKey is another well-known keyboard app for iOS, which the company has now decided to focus on after recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/07\/31\/microsoft-closes-word-flow-ios\/\">removing Word Flow from the iOS App Store<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/appshopper.com\/utilities\/gboard-%E2%80%94-search-gifs-emojis-more-right-from-your-keyboard\">Gboard<\/a> is available on the iOS App Store for free. [<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/gboard-a-new-keyboard-from-google\/id1091700242?mt=8\">Direct Link<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gboard is Google&#8217;s own keyboard app for iOS devices, and today the company announced that it&#8217;s integrating Google Maps and YouTube directly within the keyboard. The two new features will be housed behind the &#8220;G&#8221; button on Gboard, now sitting alongside Google Search. 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