How to change your car's icon and color in Google Maps Changing the navigation icon on Google Maps is a straightforward process that takes only a few seconds. If you're tired of the default blue ...

New updates to Google Maps have made it possible to show a custom car icon during navigation through both Android Auto and CarPlay. Here’s how it works. Back in February 2025, Google Maps ...

Google Maps’ default icon is a blue arrow. However, users can change it to a car if they want. The company introduced this option four years ago, integrating choices such as a red car, a yellow ...

So far, when you’ve been using the navigation view in Google Maps, the icon used to represent your current position defaults to a blue arrow. If you tap on that icon, you can choose from some ...

Reports surrounding custom car icons are sparse, but we have at least one confirmed report of the feature being available with Google Maps Version 24.50.04.705335264 on Android.

There you have it, your Google Maps icon is now a fetch new ride that looks a heck of a lot more interesting than the boring 2D arrow that you had before. Just remember that you can go back ...

We’re seeing these new car icons with Google Maps beta version 25.06.x for Android. It’s not available in the stable channel yet, but has already launched on iOS.

9to5Google reports that Google is testing a UI change in beta versions of Maps (version 25.06.x). This sees the icons for your saved places turning into dots when you zoom out.

To represent various places on Google Maps, Google users use different icons and symbols to help users identify. Currently, Google uses more than 100 symbols, which is what each symbol means.

But, if you don't want to have to toggle on the feature, which includes dragging a little icon of a person and dropping it into the location, there's another site that takes Google Street View's ...

The Google Maps icon on iPhones suddenly turned black, and more and more users seem to get this unexpected update. It's unclear what happened, and despite all these people thinking it would be the ...