Update (1700ET): President Trump has voiced his approval of this change as "complete, ratified, and binding"...
As Kimberly Hayek detailed earlier for The Epoch Times, Apple has changed the name of Lake Ontario to "Lake America" on the web version of its Apple Maps service, following an executive order from U.S. President Donald Trump that renamed the body of water located on the U.S. - Canada border.
The update appeared Sept. 1 for users in the United States. It came days after Alphabet's Google Maps made a similar switch for U.S. users late Aug. 29.
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said Aug. 31 that Trump had contacted Apple directly about the change.
"I know that the president reached out to Apple directly," Burgum said on Fox Business. "So I'm sure that we may be seeing that change coming up soon to Lake America."
Apple updated Apple Maps so that people in the United States now see the Great Lake labeled Lake America, after the U.S. Geographic Names Information System recorded the new official name.
Users in Canada still see Lake Ontario. Everyone else sees both names. Apple used the same country-based labeling after the Gulf of Mexico was renamed the Gulf of America.
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