Microsoft is doing some housecleaning with its upcoming Windows updates, deprecating and removing the Windows Map app later this year.

Windows Maps has been a fixture on Windows since it was first launched in November 2014. After a little more than a decade, Microsoft is pulling the plug. The app is listed among the apps deprecated, as of April 2025, although it will still be a couple of months before it is removed from the Microsoft Store.

The company made the announcement in a documentation update.

Maps app is deprecated. It will be removed from the Microsoft Store by July 2025 and will no longer be supported. For more information, see Resources for deprecated features.

Microsoft had already stopped including Windows Maps in new Windows 11 installs, beginning with Windows 11 24H2. As a result, it’s hardly surprising to see the company officially deprecate the app, or remove it from the Microsoft Store.