Dark modes are a common thing in the software world, and nearly every big app now has such a visual style. It makes sense, as a dark mode makes applications easier to use at night, albeit some users ...

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 Maps is testing out custom car icons with a very limited group of individuals. The feature was previously in testing on iOS, and now seems to be rolling out to Google Maps Local Guides on ...

The Google Maps app for Android Auto is picking up some minor tweaks to icons which offer a bit more contrast to the design. Rolling out alongside the latest Google Maps updates, the Android Auto ...

Google Maps wants to capture that Waze-like fun, and it's doing so by borrowing one of the latter's signature features. For reference, Google's flagship navigation app gained custom vehicle icons back ...

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While you’d normally expect Google to bring new Google Maps features to its own operating system first and only then to release them on other platforms, that’s not how things have been working lately.

Android users are finally catching up with a cool feature that iPhone users have had for a few years on Google Maps. Google has finally rolled out custom car icons for the Android version of Maps ...

Google Maps is a great navigation app, with no frills really needed. It is, in fact, easily one of the best navigation apps around, without even beginning to consider the extras. But that doesn’t mean ...

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Google Maps on Android should be the “main” iteration of the navigation app but like many Google applications, features bleed through to iOS first, then come to Android later. The latest such change ...