However, with the announcement of iOS 6 in June 2012, Apple announced that they had created their own Apple Maps mapping service,[10] which officially replaced Google Maps when iOS 6 was released on September 19, 2012.[11] However, at launch, Apple Maps received significant criticism from users due to inaccuracies, errors and bugs.[12][13] One day later, The Guardian reported that Google was preparing its own Google Maps app,[14] which was released on December 12, 2012.[15][16] Within only two days, the application had been downloaded over ten million times.[17]