Apple changed the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America” on the web version of its Apple Maps following US President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the lake.
The move by Apple on Tuesday followed a decision by Alphabet late on Saturday to change the name of the lake on its Google Maps for US users.
Apple confirmed that US users will see Lake America following a change to the body of water’s name in the US Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
Users in Canada will continue to see Lake Ontario, and users in the rest of the world will see both names, following the same approach Apple used after Trump renamed the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.
The name changes illustrate how US tech companies are being pulled into geopolitical disputes as the Trump administration pressures them to comply with executive orders that allies and international bodies have rejected.
