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Map Styles

Map styles define the look and feel of a map, including its colors, background, roads, labels, points of interest, and other visual elements. The Mapbox Maps SDK for iOS enables developers to apply predefined styles or load custom styles to fit their application's design needs. Once a style is loaded, developers can programmatically change the style's appearance at runtime, add and remove layers, change layer properties, and more.

By default, the Maps SDK for iOS will load the Mapbox Standard style, a versatile and visually appealing map style suitable for many applications. Mapbox Standard offers many configuration options, allowing developers to customize the map's appearance to suit the needs of their application. With Mapbox Standard, developers can adjust the map's colors, feature visibility, and other properties to create a unique map experience. Additionally, developers can bring their own data to the style either through adding a source and layer or by importing a style fragment.

These guides explain core concepts of loading and configuring styles, adding sources and layers at runtime, styling data with Mapbox expressions, and using Declarative Map Styling in the Maps SDK for iOS. For a general introduction to map styles see this getting started guide:

GUIDE
Getting started: Map styles

Learn more about Map Styles and how they are used in the Mapbox product ecosystem.
Mapbox Studio Manual
These guides cover working with the map style at runtime. For more information on how to create a custom map style in Mapbox Studio, see the Mapbox Studio Manual.
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