The rise of Google Maps mimics many of the scrappy origin tale tropes that are littered throughout the Bay Area.

Google Maps does a lot more than just get you where you're going. Now's a good time to rediscover its most popular features and helpful hidden gems.

Google Maps custom routes can be created on desktop, but good luck importing and opening them on Android and Android Auto. It's infuriating.

To enable the Accessible places feature, you'll need to toggle on the button. Now, when you search for businesses in Google ...

Waze replaced Google Maps for 90% of my driving time, but Google Maps is indispensable for the other 10%. Waze's greatest strength is its real-time live updates. If you're in a rural area with little ...

Custom car icons are coming to Google Maps on Android. Following a period of testing, the feature, previously available on ...

OS 18.3 was released last month, so the first iOS 18.4 beta should be coming soon. iOS 18.4 is expected to be a more ...

Google has quietly started the rollout of new vehicle icons on Android devices, a few months after the same feature debuted ...

Google began testing new car icons in Google Maps, giving iOS users a bit more customization. Now, it looks like Android ...

GOOGLE has U-turned on a “awful” layout change that made it hard to see where users were driving on Maps. Android smartphones ...

Old GPS units were good at the time, but smartphone navigation is leaps and bounds ahead of what we used to have in terms of ...

When Google Maps is active in the background, and you trigger Gemini with this feature enabled, you'll see a new "Ask about ...