- Google Maps on iOS has started showing new vehicle options for the navigation market.
- These join the three existing vehicle types, in addition to the default arrow.
- The new vehicle selections can be customized with the color of your choice.
What are you driving these days? Convertible? Plug-in electric? You’ve got some fantastic options out there, but none of them really take the form of a giant arrow with a circle around it. For many of us, though, that’s exactly the representation we see of our vehicle when navigating somewhere in Google Maps. If you’d rather have that experience better reflect what you’ve actually got out on the road, we might just have some good news for you.
Right now, Maps on Android does let you customize your vehicle — a little bit. If you’re just not feeling the arrow, you can swap that out for a red sedan, a yellow SUV, or a green pickup. That’s the way it’s been since 2020, and that’s the way it was looking like things were going to stay.