The Google Maps app for Wear OS now automatically launches when you start navigation, but only when you actually need it.

If you’ve ever started walking or biking directions on your phone only to squint at a tiny arrow on your wrist, Google just ...

The usual style of Google Maps navigation overlay shrinks the app into a floating picture-in-picture (PiP) window. It hovers ...

Google is testing new direction buttons in the local pack within the Google Search results. Normally, we see a "Directions" ...

Google has been testing Live Updates for its Android mapping app for a while now, but some beta users are seeing a new look.

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

Waze has long stood out for its live, driver-submitted information that helps it decide how to reroute you in real time. Users can report everything from traffic jams and road hazards to construction, ...

Before Google Maps and smartphones, people used printed maps, often from a site called MapQuest. What's happened to the company in the years since?

Google Maps can be your ... Street View to navigate by driving or cycling, I find that it is best used while walking. When I travel to popular tourist destinations in busy cities, Street View has ...