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CHICAGO — <\/span>Apple has relabeled Lake Ontario to \u201cLake America\u201d for U.S. users of its Maps app, following competitor Google<\/a> days after President Donald Trump ordered a new name<\/a> for the body of water amid his escalating trade war with Canada.<\/p>\n As of Wednesday morning, Apple Maps displayed \u201cLake America\u201d for U.S. users looking at the lake that sits between the state of New York and Canada\u2019s Ontario province. Users outside of the U.S. still saw the Lake Ontario name.<\/p>\n Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Wednesday. Earlier this week, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum told<\/a> Fox that Trump had reached out to the company \u201cdirectly\u201d<\/a> about the change.<\/p>\n The president declared the new \u201cLake America\u201d name last week \u2014 marking one of the latest provocations<\/a> during his trade war with Canada that is now hiking tariffs<\/a> on both sides of the border. His executive order on Friday directed the Interior Department to update the lake\u2019s name in the U.S. geographic naming service.<\/p>\n Google Maps rolled out the change<\/a> over the weekend, citing Trump’s order and its already-established practice of using names assigned by the U.S. Geographic Names Information System (or GNIS).<\/p>\n \u201cPeople using Maps in the U.S. will see \u2018Lake America,\u2019 those in Canada will continue to see \u2018Lake Ontario,\u2019 and those outside of the U.S. and Canada will see both names,\u201d Google said in a brief statement on Saturday, reiterating that such updates \u201cfollow our long-standing policy for bodies of water with names that vary from country to country.\u201d<\/p>\n Trump cannot force Canada to also change the name of Lake Ontario. And America\u2019s northern neighbors quickly panned<\/a> the idea.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s Lake Ontario to Canadians and the rest of the world. Now and forever,” Ontario Premier Doug Ford wrote on social media Friday.<\/p>\n Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney also rejected the move last week, invoking the lake\u2019s Indigenous roots and noting that the name predates both the Canadian Confederation and U.S. Declaration of Independence. The name Lake Ontario comes from the Huron Indigenous people\u2019s<\/a> word \u201coniatar\u00ed:io,\u201d which means \u201clake of shining waters.\u201d<\/p>\n This isn\u2019t the first time Trump has moved to rename water spanning beyond U.S. borders. Last year, Trump ordered that the Gulf of Mexico be renamed the Gulf of America \u2014 and Apple and Google<\/a>, both based in California, later updated the name on their maps in the U.S.<\/p>\n But not all map providers have followed suit. MapQuest, in particular, has declared it won’t be changing Lake Ontario’s label \u2014 and gave users the option<\/a> to name the lake \u201cwhatever you want” through a separate online tool. Both the Lake Ontario and Gulf of Mexico names still appear as default on its platform.<\/p>\n MapQuest, owned by California company System1, has reported a surge of downloads recently. On Wednesday, MapQuest topped the charts of free apps with new downloads in both the U.S. and Canada on Apple’s App Store.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n