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.

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 ...

Our guide to using Google Maps offline means you can keep an eye on your location and find your destination despite your signal strength.

Google Maps Street View feature allows you to capture street-level locations, including pathways along streets and sidewalks. See how to use it!

Through vast cross-country stretches or tight city streets, Google Maps and Waze guide you where you need to go—but which one is the top map app? I put them head-to-head to find out.