I’m super excited to announce that Map View, the feature I worked on during my Microsoft Explore internship, has officially shipped to production and is now in the hands of millions of OneDrive iOS users!
This summer, I had the incredible opportunity to intern on the OneDrive iOS team, where my pod and I built Map View; a new way for users to rediscover their memories with geographic context. For the first time in OneDrive, users can see where their photos were captured on an interactive map powered by Apple Maps.
With Map View, users can:
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🗺️ Browse photos by location across Albums, Favorites, Faces, Moments, and Details
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📍 Explore via a mini-map and a full-screen map that dynamically clusters photos on the map
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🧭 Get directions to where a photo was taken using Apple Maps
Demos:
singleimage.1.mp4
album.1.mp4
moments.1.mp4
favorites.1.mp4
Building this feature was a full end-to-end experience over 3 months this summer:
- Collaborating with product/design to write the product spec
- Wireframing user flows with designers
- Implementing Map View with MapKit, SwiftUI, and UIKit
I’m incredibly grateful to my mentors, teammates, and pod for their support throughout the project. It’s really cool seeing something I helped build live in production — and I can’t wait to keep growing as an engineer.
If you’re an iOS OneDrive user, check out Map View! 🌍📸