Connect Claude Code to Apple Maps
Yes, Claude Code can use Apple Maps. Pomeroy connects Claude Code to Apple Maps on your Mac, so it 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.
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What can you ask Claude Code 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 Code 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 code to apple maps
Pomeroy lists the assistants it finds on this Mac, so install Claude Code first if it is not there yet.
- 1
Download Pomeroy and switch on Apple Maps.
Open the download, drag Pomeroy into Applications, and open it. Pomeroy opens a setup window listing every app it can connect. Maps needs no macOS permission prompt. The maps actions take place names, not your location, so there is nothing for macOS to ask about.
- 2
Press Set up beside Claude Code.
Pomeroy runs Claude Code's own claude mcp add command with user scope, so Pomeroy is available in every project rather than one folder. If the claude command is not where Pomeroy can find it, Pomeroy adds the same entry to Claude Code's configuration file instead.
- 3
Check Claude Code.
Run claude mcp list in the Terminal and pomeroy is listed. Inside a session, /mcp shows it connected, with its tools. Start a new Claude Code session.
- 4
Ask Claude Code something.
Try “How long will it take to drive to Bristol?” and a real answer comes back.
The configuration, in full
Set up writes it for you. The documentation has the exact text, where it goes, and how to check it worked.
Can Claude Code use Apple Maps?
Yes. Once you switch Maps on in Pomeroy, Claude Code 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 Code 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 Code can still tell you the walking route to the station.
Claude Code does not show Pomeroy's tools.
Start a new Claude Code session; a running one keeps the tool list it started with. Then press Set up again in Pomeroy, under Settings › Assistants: every way Pomeroy sets an assistant up is safe to run twice. Pomeroy's menu bar shows whether Claude Code is connected right now.
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Try Claude Code with Apple Maps.
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