Online car routes. Online truck routes with highly customizable truck options. Online taxi routes. Online pedestrian routes. Online bicycle routes. Online truck routes with highly customizable truck options. Online routes for electric vehicles to find the nearest charging stations (based on the calculated energy consumption and battery specifications). Online scooter routes. Specify preferred route type (fastest or shortest) and route options (such as speed profiles, route restrictions, vignette options, and more). Calculate traffic-aware routes indicating potential traffic delay times, as well as traffic-optimized routes to avoid traffic. Get traffic flow information along the individual sections of a route. Get possible toll costs along the individual sections of a route (Beta). Customizable route shapes utilizing different types of waypoints. Localized maneuver instructions are available for each route. Alternative routes. Import routes from other APIs and vendors.

The HERE SDK for iOS can seamlessly be integrated into the car’s built-in display using Apple's CarPlay.

Minimum Requirements

• The HERE SDK for iOS supports iOS 12.4 and iPadOS or higher.
• As an absolute minimum for development, you must use macOS Catalina, Xcode 12.4 and Swift 5.3.2 - or higher.
• The accompanying example apps have been developed using Xcode 13.0.
• For recommended device hardware specifications, please check the section below.

Supported Devices

• The HERE SDK supports iOS ARM64 / 64-bit architectures incorporating Apple's A7 chip or newer. This means that all iOS devices starting from the iPhone 5s (which was released in 2013) are supported as all these devices contain sufficient RAM and CPU/GPU power.
• The x86_64 and simulator-arm64 architecture is supported for simulators. Therefore, this includes M1 and non-M1 machines.
• It is recommended to allow at least 85 MB disk space for the uncompressed installation size of an app plus 3 MB to cache map data - unless the default cache size is changed programmatically.

Where to Start?

If you are interested in building your first app showing a HERE map, have a look at our Get Started section to guide you through the first simple steps.

Register or sign in at developer.here.com to get your credentials and to download the iOS framework (the HERE SDK binary bundle to include in your app(s)).

A quick overview of the main concepts and conventions can be found here.

Additional resources:

• In the examples section, you can find the links to our example applications that accompany this user guide.
• The API Reference can be found in your downloaded SDK package or on developer.here.com.
• Consult the coverage page to get detailed information on supported countries and languages per feature.
• Choose a plan: You can freely start using the HERE SDK with the Freemium plan. An overview of the available plans can be found on the pricing page. More details on the plans can be found in our FAQs.

For errors or suggestions related to this documentation, please open an issue on GitHub.

Legal and Privacy Requirements

The use of the HERE SDK for iOS is governed by the terms and conditions which you have accepted separately, either when signing up via the developer.here.com portal or otherwise executing an agreement with HERE. For your use of the documentation presented on this website, these terms apply.

For more information on how HERE is committed to respecting your privacy and to complying with applicable data protection and privacy laws, see the HERE Privacy Policy.

In addition to the above terms, the following shall apply: Components of the HERE SDK for iOS collect certain information from your application. Such information includes access credentials (AccessKeyId, AccessKeySecret – see also Authenticating Applications) and the types of features utilized by your application when used by end users. The information does not identify an individual end user. However, your application's privacy policy must disclose to the end users that you have licensed products and services from HERE, that such information is collected from your application as it is being used by end users, and that HERE collects and processes such information from the application.

Open Source Software Notices

If you use the HERE SDK for iOS in your application, you must embed the HERE copyright and various open source software licenses or link to a copy hosted on your project's webspace. You can find a copy of these licenses in the HERE_NOTICE file, which is included in your HERE SDK package.