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Google Maps is gaining a tunnel navigation feature that was available on Waze for quite some time, allowing to easily drive through tunnels. - SamMobile

Google Maps' fuel-saving feature works by showing users fuel or energy-efficiency estimates on certain routes, taking into account the vehicle's engine type.

Navigating from the wrist is a great trick of Wear OS smartwatches. Find out how to download Google Maps and use the app.

Google is now letting more people help add missing roads to Google Maps around the world with its new Road Mapper feature.

Google now lets you pan around without losing your pin because now, once the pin goes off screen—an indicator shows up on the side of the map in the direction of where your set pin is, and “stays relative to the pin's initial placement as you pan or rotate the map.” In fact, when you tap the indicator, Google Maps will re-center on the pin—making it easy to relocate your set destination.

Apple recently released iOS 16.3, which includes a fix for an Apple Maps privacy bug. People are worried that the bug lets apps collect location data from users without their permission.

Clean energy may go further thanks to this new Google Maps update. Google has updated its Maps recently on Android, but beta testers already spotted its upcoming version, 11.

Google Maps will soon get a new widget on Android devices that will make it super-easy for users to see the nearby traffic before getting behind the wheel.

Google Maps have added another feature where the map users will be able to see the air quality information from PurpleAir, which is a low-cost sensor network that gives the user to have a hyperlocal view of conditions.