Negative .aboveRoads still won't place the MapPolyline below the traffic layer. There's no public API to insert a polyline between road geometry and road labels. That middle layer is what Apple Maps appears to use internally for its own route rendering, but it's private and not accessible to us... Apple Maps achieves (I guess) that look purely because it has access to an internal rendering pipeline that isn't exposed through MapKit's public APIs Tested with a simple snippet and confirmed in the same location (next to my house) Map(position: $cameraPosition) { UserAnnotation() if let route { MapPolyline(route.polyline) .stroke(.blue, style: StrokeStyle(lineWidth: 8, lineCap: .round)) .mapOverlayLevel(level: .aboveRoads) } } .mapStyle(.standard( elevation: .automatic, emphasis: .automatic, pointsOfInterest: .all, showsTraffic: true ))

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