The release of iOS 16 introduced selectable map features to Apple Maps, allowing users to select points of interest. However, there is currently no callback implemented for this feature in react-native-maps.

Proposal

To add support for selectable map features, I'm proposing reusing onPoiClick in MapView that is triggered when a user selects a point of interest. This function should behave similarly to onPoiClick() for Google Maps, but with a different type definition triggered since Apple Maps places do not have place IDs. We can populate it with data in MKPlacemark.

Possible Implementation

We'll first need to configure MapView to have selectable map features:

map.selectableMapFeatures = 1 << MKMapFeatureTypePointOfInterest;

The proposed method definition for the Apple Maps version of onPoiClick() would be something like this:

export type AppleMapsPoiClickEvent = NativeSyntheticEvent<{
    name: string;
    location: LatLng;
    address: string;
}>;

By default, Apple animates selected points of interests. We can avoid that to by deselecting them in the didSelectAnnotationView callback.