Then you can take that information to your operator to ask them to improve service in that area.

Signal strength: If you consistently find yourself dropping calls in the same spot on your daily walk, you can check our map to see if others who use the same provider are experiencing the same thing in the same area.

Service coverage: If you’re looking to use your brand new 5G phone on an upcoming vacation, you can check the map to see if your operator had 5G service in that location.

Developers on the Ookla blog have provided some examples to illustrate how you may find these coverage maps useful. If you don’t see the tab with the map open, simply update your copy of Speedtest for iPhone.

Just hit the “Maps” tab in the latest version of the app to get started. Coverage maps have been available in Speedtest for Android, and with today’s announcement you can find them in the iOS app as well. Speedtest is a free app for measuring internet speeds. Speedtest maps are now available on the iPhone

To give you a more realistic measure of latency, the app now provides three separate pings: idle ping, download ping and upload ping.

To help contribute to the maps, you must allow location sharing when using the app on the first run.

Speedtest maps is a crowdsourced feature.Just open the Speedtest app and check out a new tab near the bottom, labeled “Maps.” Ookla’s Speedtest app has been updated with coverage maps, allowing you to visualize levels of service you could expect from your carrier.Now you can visualize your carrier’s 5G service coverage, view network coverage and more.

Speedtest maps are now available in the iPhone app.

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