Google Maps allows you to decide a automotive icon on Android Auto and CarPlay

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New updates to Google Maps have made it attainable to point out a customized automotive icon throughout navigation by way of each Android Auto and CarPlay. Right here’s the way it works.

Again in February 2025, Google Maps launched extra choices in your car icon whereas in navigation. As a substitute of the standard blue dot/arrow, customers can choose plenty of totally different car sorts after which customise the colour. It’s a neat little addition that first appeared in Waze.

Extra just lately, this performance has prolonged to Android Auto.

By means of Android Auto, Google Maps will now present your automotive icon of selection in your automotive’s show. This displays no matter you’ve set through the cellphone app, and might’t be modified on the automotive show itself. In reality, any modifications made to the automotive icon by way of your cellphone additionally received’t be mirrored till you disconnect and reconnect Android Auto. We’re not fully certain when the change was made, however it appears to have gone reside throughout the previous couple of weeks following newer Android Auto updates.

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The identical performance can also be now out there on Apple’s CarPlay platform, the place you equally can not change the icon on the automotive’s show.

To vary the automotive icon, you’ll must entry Maps in your cellphone. Ideally, that is carried out earlier than you’re on the street. A Settings button on the journey preview, under, opens a menu the place you’ll see the choice to alter the “car icon whereas navigating.

*The Settings button right here is step one*

If navigation is ongoing with out being related to Android Auto or Carplay, there’s a devoted button to alter the icon.

With both technique of entry, you’ll have a number of totally different icon selections. The default continues to be a easy blue dot/arrow, however you may also choose from a number of sorts of automobiles, SUVs, and vehicles. There are 5 choices with customizable colours, in addition to three legacy icons which can be fastened of their colours.