Apple changes name of Lake Ontario to ‘Lake America’ in maps app - Al Jazeera

The change makes Apple the second major U.S. Tech company to comply with Trump's executive order renaming the Great Lake. Google Maps made the same switch Saturday. The label only appears that way for users inside the United States, meaning Canadians looking at the same body of water still see "Lake Ontario."

Tuesday's update landed on the same day Apple named John Ternus as the company's new CEO, piling two significant company moments into one news cycle.

For people here in Lubbock, this is less a local story than a national one with a strange geography angle. The Great Lakes sit nowhere near West Texas, but anyone pulling up Apple Maps or Google Maps to plan a road trip north will now see a name that no government treaty or international body has officially recognized. Canada has not accepted the rename. Ontario Premier Doug Ford has publicly pushed back against it.

Lake Ontario borders the U.S. And Canada and drains into the St. Lawrence River. That shared international status raises real questions about whether a unilateral executive order can stick long-term.