While Google Maps holds the top spot on our favorite travel apps, you'll want to take a few minutes to download offline maps for any areas where you live, work, or travel.

Watch this video to see how to download and use Google Maps with no internet. How to download offline maps Google Maps and Apple Maps let you download maps to use offline.

To download a map in Google Maps offline, open the Google Maps app on iOS or Android and tap your profile picture on the top right (you must be logged in to your Google account for this to work).

The Google Docs mobile app carries a nice feature that allows you to make files available offline, so if you lose connection to the internet, you can still access documents and edit them as before.

No signal? No problem. Apple Maps has a download feature in iOS 17's beta, and Google Maps has had the same capability for years.