Has Apple made any remark about this to confirm? It would not surprise me if Apple just isn't even aware of this changing on their app. (For those unaware, they source their map data from various sources / vendors, as does Microsoft's Bing Maps.)
Edit:
The account that posted the tweet is considered "satire" and antisemitic. I also looked into when Apple Maps last updated, they stopped showing any live data in the region back in 2023 after October 7th, even in Israel. The post is highly misleading to spark outrage.
Yet they were pretty quick to change Lake Ontario to Lake America. OTOH, if Apple has no idea what its own app is serving, that shows poor state of their monitoring system, right?
If there's anything to worry about it's that MS will stop providing aerial imagery to https://www.hotosm.org/ as it seems they slowly give up on Bing maps altogether. Cool they atl donated em so far.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-29/gaza-bef...
> The account that posted the tweet is considered "satire" and antisemitic.
Says who?
They have not updated the satelite images since 2023, this is a known documented thing, news sites have literally compared Apple Maps to Google Maps when they finally updated their images for the region in 2026. Apple can remove roads if it knows they're no longer around, it doesn't mean they have to update satellite images, which has been the case.
> Says who?
Literally browse posts by that account, it doesn't take very long to see antisemitism throughout the account. ...Why are you touchy about that? The tweet is literally rage bait.
And it's not like they don't have the data. You can see in Google Earth "archive" how the whole map is a patchwork of randomly old tiles.
Apple not updating their maps since October 7th for that region is a documented thing. So much so, when Google updated theirs (who also froze theirs) they compared Apple Maps vs Google to see what's changed. The tweet is just rage bait.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-29/gaza-bef...
This is their moral crusade. Which would be good if it was aimed at compelling Israel to offer a decent 2 state deal and pull out the settlers (with much Israeli weeping and gnashing of teeth), and compelling the Palestinians to accept it. But instead we get absolutist "Israel is evil and must be dissolved" and we're back to the cycle of violence.
There's no genocide in Gaza. From the WSJ:
> Net of people fleeing the country, the change in Gaza’s population is roughly zero. Not minus 40%. The population even appears to have grown in 2025, before the cease-fire in October.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/free-expression/naza-has-nada-on...
any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.It's less ridiculous than you think. Surveying five frontier LLMs just now four of them gave a probability above 20% that it may happen this quarter, let alone before the end of next year.
Furthermore, a simple test of whether I typed out my above comment by hand (as I did) is whether each word is syntactically correct. The word rug-pulling is correct but I did not use it because I prefer the way rugpulling sounds inside the inner monologue as I type it. LLMs, however, are insistent on having perfect syntax, grammar and semantics, even if they keep fucking up the pragmatics.