Make sure you unmute guidance audio to receive clear directions while walking. Adjust guidance volume to hear directions better with street noise. Enable detailed voice guidance and Live View for more ...

Between Google Maps and Apple Maps, there's no major difference in accuracy between them. The difference really boils down to ...

Chandraveer, a seasoned mechanical design engineer turned tech reporter and reviewer, brings more than three years of rich experience in consumer tech journalism to the table, having contributed to ...

One of Google's coolest apps, by far, has yet to see the light of day for most users. I'm talking about Maps' live AR walking directions-- now known as Live View -- that shows you via a Pokémon-like ...

The navigation app is getting better at providing transit directions. And it’s becoming more like a social platform. The navigation app is getting better at providing transit directions. And it’s ...

One of the most underrated ways Google Maps makes commuting less stressful is that it reroutes in real time. For instance, it ...

With Google Maps, you don't just navigate routes. You can do many other interesting things as well. Besides navigation, ...

A clear comparison of Google Maps and Apple Maps in 2025, focusing on privacy, features, ecosystem integration, and AI-powered navigation.

The company is leaning more on individual cartography contributions: Map Maker now lets people test and correct driving directions for user-added roads. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

Last October, Google added new, eco-friendly driving directions to Maps. In the US, you could pull up a driving route that would take into account things like congestion and incline to find you the ...