Google Maps is quietly testing Live Updates on Android 16, bringing real-time progress notifications to your lock screen, AOD, and status bar.

Live Updates in Google Maps will only appear if your phone runs Android 16 QPR2. Even then, the rollout is limited, as Google isn’t widely testing the feature yet. The company was last spotted working ...

Google Maps is starting to show Live Updates for navigation, but the rollout is limited to a handful of users so far.

The usual style of Google Maps navigation overlay shrinks the app into a floating picture-in-picture (PiP) window. It hovers over your home screen. That system worked, but it had trade-offs. You would ...

A Google Maps bug is crashing the app when searching for public transit directions. Other navigations and directions appear to be fine.

Google is widely rolling out a glanceable directions feature for the Maps app. The feature is available on Android and iOS. You’ll need to turn the setting on first to start using it.

Some Google Maps user have reported that the app has started crashing whenever they try to search for public transit directions.