Google Maps can be your best friend when traveling to an unfamiliar place, but the app is not just about showing directions to the destination on your itinerary. Google has packed in many more ...

Thanks to my extremely poor sense of direction, Google Maps is an essential travel app for me — for both short trips to different parts of the city, as well as longer routes that I have no chance of ...

Navigation apps typically search for the fastest route to reach a destination, but new-generation updates added new capabilities, including support for eco-friendly routes. Google Maps can look for a ...

Through vast cross-country stretches or tight city streets, Google Maps and Waze guide you where you need to go—but which one ...

Google is making it easier to follow the rules of the road—or at least know when you should pay extra attention to them. New traffic-tracking features are coming to Maps and Waze, including the ...

Google Maps is getting another useful feature on Android Automotive, this time as part of what looks to be an increasing effort to bring all devices running Google software in sync. The Mountain ...

Apple’s introducing some new tools in Maps for iOS 26 that keep track of your favorite places. Navigation will introduce a preferred route based on your movement history. Visited Places can keep track ...