CNBC April 14, 2020
Todd Haselton,Christina Farr

Key Points

– Apple on Tuesday launched a new tool that shows how well people are following social distancing guidelines.

– It gathers anonymous data from Apple Maps and works similarly to what Google is doing to show trends from Google Maps.

– Apple said the information it gathers isn’t tied to any Apple ID, so it doesn’t know what each individual person is doing.

Apple on Tuesday launched a new tool that shows how well people are following social distancing guidelines. It gathers anonymous data from Apple Maps and works similarly to what Google is doing to show trends from Google Maps.

You can plug in a city or a region and see a graph of how much people...

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