Update (9/12/25): Google Maps is back online. It's not just you: Google Maps is down. According to 9to5Google, the outage started sometime around 1 p.m. PT (4 p.m. PT), and seems to be isolated to the ...

When Taiwanese traveler Eric Weng goes to South Korea, he resigns himself to toggling between three different map applications to navigate his way around. That’s because Google Maps, ubiquitous in ...

A Google Maps team was recently attacked by villagers while surveying Birhar village at night because the villagers mistook them for thieves. A Google Maps team was recently attacked by villagers ...

Google wants to improve real-time monitoring on Android 16 by adding Live Updates to Google Maps. The feature, initially introduced in the latest Android ecosystem, enables users to keep track of food ...

A Google Maps team, which went to survey a village in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur on Thursday night, was thrashed by the locals after being mistaken for thieves. The incident took place when the Google ...

Rajesh started following the latest happenings in the world of Android around the release of the Nexus One and Samsung Galaxy S. After flashing custom ROMs and kernels on his beloved Galaxy S, he ...

The popular nav app is removing a feature where you can follow other members of the Google Maps community. For the last five years, you’ve been able to follow individual contributors on Google Maps to ...

Google Maps has been around for nearly two decades and is the most popular navigation app. Waze is more community-centric while Apple Maps has a loyal user base of iPhone owners. Each navigation app ...

Google Maps users will no longer be able to follow other users or have profile followers come September. All data related to your followers and who you follow will be deleted. You’ll still be able to ...

Media playback controls disappeared from Google Maps on Android devices this week, disrupting music and podcast listening for millions of drivers. The issue, affecting widely used music apps like ...

After the deprecation of Assistant Driving Mode earlier this year, Google Maps is now missing media playback controls for YouTube Music and Spotify on Android. Update 7/21: Google tells us today that ...

Specifically, there is still no easy way to transfer saved map data from one app to another. This ends up locking users into one mapping platform, which is good for the two tech giants involved, but ...