One unexpected benefit of offline maps is battery life. Instead of letting my phone waste power searching for a weak signal, I sometimes put it in airplane mode and let Maps handle everything offline.

Replacing the Google Assistant, Gemini can now reroute your trip, dodge tolls, check the weather, and answer questions ...

You can disable Google Maps' Timeline history of the places you've visited. You can also disable Maps from tracking you through the app's settings.

To set or change your Home location on Google Maps, head to the "Labeled" menu in either the mobile app or website.

The thing that's caught my attention with iOS 26 is a feature called Preferred Routes. Apple Maps has long been able to ...

Whether you're using the speedometer in your car or using the speed display in Google Maps, you might wonder which is more ...

Republican legislators could make it easier for them to implement new congressional maps that retain four safe Republican districts, based on a draft of a bill unveiled Sunday. Utah’s Legislative ...

Airport travel is never fun, regardless of how excited you may be about your destination. There are many Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoints to go through, and you might worry if ...

Google Maps will get a nifty new upgrade with the continued rollout of the Material 3 (M3) Expressive update, the Android creator’s new visual identity that it’s slowly pushing to its suite of apps.

People often overlook a crucial step while setting up a Google account—ways to get back into the account, should they ever forget their password, lose their method of two-factor authentication, or ...

Google Maps suffered an outage that left the mobile version of the service unable to fully load its map or provide directions. Over 4,000 reports were filed on Downdetector since the outage started, ...

Update (9/12/25): Google Maps is back online. It's not just you: Google Maps is down. According to 9to5Google, the outage started sometime around 1 p.m. PT (4 p.m. PT), and seems to be isolated to the ...