A cool skill that scans screenshots of specific locations is now available in Google Maps for both iOS and Android. After identifying the name and other details of the location, the app lets you ...

There’s a prominent “Turn on/off auto-scan” button underneath the screenshots carousel. This is available now in Google Maps for iOS (US English), and will come to Android in the future.

The battle in the navigation space is getting fiercer, and Apple wants to be part of it by promising the best experience in Apple Maps. While users who've been trying Apple Maps in regions where ...

Users can now launch the AI assistant with a long press of the side button—a feature first introduced ... or find restaurants on Google Maps. This cloud-powered AI, also coming to other Galaxy ...

Map platforms like Google, Apple, and Bing Maps now drive 20% of local searches, according to new research. BrightLocal research shows that one in five local searches now happens in map apps ...

After testing got underway earlier this year, Google Maps for Android is widely rolling out a redesign of the “You” and “Contribute” tabs that embrace sheets. Last year, the main ...

Google Maps is the most popular app with more than a billion active users monthly. It uses various icons and symbols to represent various places. Every symbol and icon used on Google Maps and what ...

Google admitted it had a Maps timeline-erasing bug, but there’s a way to get it back. These are the steps you should follow to restore your deleted timeline (with one major caveat). And there ...

Reporting an incident is easy. Users only need to tap a yellow triangle – the hazard button – appearing in the main Google Maps interface, right below the compass. The same button design is ...

There’s a lot to explore in Google Maps, but you may not always know where ... With the mobile apps, you tap the layers button (two squares, top right), then toggle on Historical imagery.

A hardiness zone is a geographic area with a similar average minimum temperature. The map is based on the average annual extreme minimum temperature, so people in those areas know which plants can ...

The physical home button is no more, but there's a workaround you can use on pretty much any iPhone. Nelson Aguilar is an LA-based tech how-to writer and graduate of UCLA. With more than a decade ...