For Claude Desktop on macOS 15 or later
Connect Claude to Apple Maps
Yes, Claude can use Apple Maps. Pomeroy connects Claude to Apple Maps on your Mac, so Claude can find places, get driving or walking directions, and tell you how long a journey should take. The maps actions take place names, never your location.
Free for 50 actions a week. No account, no card.
What can you ask Claude to do in Apple Maps?
- “How long will it take to drive to Bristol?”
- “Find a pharmacy near Borough Market.”
- “How far is the walk from Paddington to Hyde Park?”
- “Find coffee near King’s Cross and give me phone numbers.”
- “Directions from Bath to Cardiff, with the turns.”
- “Is the walk from the Tate Modern to London Bridge under twenty minutes?”
What Claude can do in Apple Maps
- Find places near a named place, with addresses and, where Maps has them, phone numbers and websites.
- Route between two named places, driving or walking, with the distance and the expected time.
What Pomeroy will not do in Apple Maps
- Route public transport. Apple does not offer it on a Mac.
- Use your location. The maps actions take place names only.
- Book or buy anything.
How to connect Claude to Apple Maps
Pomeroy works inside Anthropic’s Claude Desktop, which is free. Get Claude Desktop first if you do not have it yet.
- 1
Download Pomeroy.
Open the download, drag Pomeroy into Applications, and open it. Pomeroy adds an icon to your menu bar and opens a setup window listing every app it can connect. They all start switched off.
- 2
Switch on Maps.
Maps needs no macOS permission prompt. The maps actions take place names, not your location, so there is nothing for macOS to ask about.
- 3
Set up the Claude extension.
Press Set up Claude extension and Claude Desktop asks to install it, with no file to find.
- 4
Ask Claude.
Try “How long will it take to drive to Bristol?” and a real answer comes back.
Can Claude use Apple Maps?
Yes. Once you switch Maps on in Pomeroy, Claude can search for places near a named place and route between two named places, driving or walking, with the distance and the expected time.
Does this share my location?
No. The maps actions take place names, like Borough Market, never coordinates. Pomeroy has a separate Location toggle for the one action that reads where your Mac is, and it stays off unless you switch it on.
Can Claude plan a train journey?
No. Apple does not route public transport on a Mac, so Pomeroy offers driving and walking only. For a train journey, Claude can still tell you the walking route to the station.
Try Claude with Apple Maps.
Get 50 actions every week. No Pomeroy account or payment card required. Requires macOS 15 or later.