Customize Google Maps on Android With Stickers

Google simply appear a cute new feature for its Android Maps app, which lets you customize your home and work addresses with virtual stickers.

Live in a barn? How well-nigh a high-rise apartment complex? What about a yellow submarine, or a teepee, or an sometime farmhouse? Now, you can reflect that in Maps.

Google Maps stickers "Whatever your dream home may exist, Google Maps can help make it a fiddling less make-believe," Google Maps Software Engineer Beth Findley wrote in a blog post. "Starting today you can customize your home and piece of work addresses in Google Maps on Android with stickers, so your map is a picayune more than yous."

There are some benefits to saving your home and work addresses in Google Maps. You lot can, for instance, use the new driving way feature for one-tap access to driving directions from your phone's dwelling screen. You tin can too characterization places like your child's schoolhouse or your all-time friend'southward house for quicker access to directions, traffic conditions, and best routes, Findley pointed out.

To save an address in Maps, make sure you lot're signed into your Google account, head over to the Your Places tab or just blazon an address, then press Add together label. In one case y'all get information technology ready, just type "dwelling," "piece of work," or "gym" in the search bar to quickly get directions instead of having to manually blazon the address every time.

The driving mode feature, introduced in January, makes assumptions near where y'all're going to make it easier to input destinations. It besides analyzes the path ahead to alert you near possible traffic deadening-downs and other issues. Google maps as well recently got a little more detour-friendly on iOS and Android.

Nearly Angela Moscaritolo

Angela Moscaritolo

Angela Moscaritolo is PCMag's expert on fitness and smart home products. Teaching yoga for nearly 10 years has helped her in evaluating a range of connected wellness products including fitness trackers, center rate monitors, rowers, smart scales, stationary bikes, strength training machines, treadmills, and more. Angela also tests smart dwelling house devices from her ranch in Florida, including air purifiers, kitchen appliances, and robot vacuums, only to name a few.