by dbadmin | Mar 29, 2025 | Features, Find My Device, Google, Google Maps
Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority What’s old is new again with Google, always. As part of the March Feature Drop for Android phones, Google announced that it was bringing people finding to its existing Find My Device app. Since I’d been using Google Maps...
by dbadmin | Mar 27, 2025 | Google, Google Maps, News
Google Maps is adding a new tool that lets you prepare lists of destinations extracted from screenshots. Maps will analyze screenshots shared to its library, and can handle multiple locations on a single screen. The feature is first coming to iOS this week, with...
by dbadmin | Mar 24, 2025 | Google, Google Gemini, Google Maps, News
Google is adding an “Ask about place” contextual chip for Gemini. The chip has started appearing when Gemini is called up from Google Maps, but only for certain place types. Functionality is currently a bit shaky, with Gemini sometimes refusing to access Maps URLs...
by dbadmin | Mar 24, 2025 | Google, Google Maps, News
Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Google admitted it had a Maps timeline-erasing bug, but there’s a way to get it back. These are the steps you should follow to restore your deleted timeline (with one major caveat). And there are measures you can take to...
by dbadmin | Mar 22, 2025 | Google, Google Maps, News
Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Google has sent an email to some users saying that it accidentally deleted Google Maps Timeline data. The email was only sent out to affected users, but urges them to restore their data from a backup. Unfortunately, you’re...
by dbadmin | Mar 22, 2025 | Google Gemini, Google Maps, Software lists, Travel
Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority I wouldn’t call myself a world traveler, but I do love to explore new places. Living in Europe, I often explore the continent, either by plane or car. Whether I’m off to Italy, Spain, Austria, or Portugal, the apps I use for...
