How to get your food truck on Apple Maps
You fixed your Google listing. Then a visitor on an iPhone asks Siri for lunch nearby, and Apple Maps answers from its own list, not Google's. Apple has its own tool for owners to claim their spot on that list. Here is how it works for a truck, and the one case where you should wait.
Apple's tool used to be called Apple Business Connect. It is now Apple Business, at business.apple.com. You sign up, prove the business is real with two kinds of proof, then add your location with its hours, phone and website. Apple says verification can take up to five business days. If your truck has no regular spot, read the last section before you start.
Where this comes from
Everything here is from Apple's own Apple Business User Guide, read on October 19, 2026. Apple's old guide now carries a notice that Apple Business Connect is now Apple Business, so older how-to articles you find may use the old name and old screens. Apple changes its tools, so check the guide if a button has moved.
Step 1: sign up
Go to business.apple.com and choose Sign up now. Apple's sign-up page asks for the business name, location and address, and the name of the person signing up, which has to be a real legal name. You can sign in with your personal Apple Account. You also need a phone and an email you can check, because Apple sends codes to both.
Step 2: prove the business is yours
Apple asks for two verification methods, picked from this list:
- A business ID: a D-U-N-S number or an EIN.
- Your website's domain, checked with a DNS record. Whoever runs your website can add it.
- App Store Connect, which almost no truck will have.
- Official documents, such as a business license or a utility bill.
For most trucks the easy pair is your EIN and a document. Apple says verification can take up to five business days, and that if you do not finish verifying within 60 days, the account and its data are deleted. Start it on a day you can check your email.
Step 3: add your location
Apple's add a location page walks through the fields. The ones that matter for a truck:
| Field | What to put |
|---|---|
| Address and map pin | Where customers buy from you. Apple lets you drag the pin or type coordinates, so put it on the spot where the window opens, not the middle of the lot. |
| Display name | The name on the truck, the same as on Google and Instagram. |
| Primary category | The closest food category. One honest pick. |
| Status | Open, or Opening Soon with a date. Apple limits that date to six months out. |
| Phone | The number you actually answer. |
| Website | Optional. Apple says a Facebook, Instagram or TikTok page can go here too, but a page that says where you are today works harder. |
| Hours | The real hours at that spot. Wrong hours are worse than none, because someone drives over. |
If your truck is already on Apple Maps
Sometimes Apple already has a place card for your truck, made from its own data. Apple says phone verification may be available then: Apple calls the number it has on record and you type in a four-digit code. If another organization already manages the listing, you can ask for a transfer and attach a document such as a business license or a utility bill. Apple says that review can take up to five business days.
The one case where you should wait
Apple's guide asks for an address and a pin, and as read on October 19, 2026 it does not describe a way to list a business that moves every day. Google has a service-area setting for that, which we covered in why "food trucks near me" never shows your truck. Apple's guide does not show one.
So here is our advice, and it is ours, not Apple's. If you sell from the same spot most days, list that spot. If you move every day, do not pin your listing to your commissary or your house. A hungry person who taps it drives to a kitchen where you do not sell, and that is the same mistake the Google post warns about. Wait until you have a regular spot, and point people to a page that says where you are today in the meantime.
Then keep it true
A listing is only as good as its hours. When you change your days, your spot or your phone, change Apple and Google on the same day. If you are still sorting out where you are allowed to park, start with where you can park a food truck on Maui. A website that shows today's spot and hours is the part we sell, and you can look at the sites we have built for Maui trucks first.
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