{"id":87557,"date":"2016-04-06T13:04:04","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T11:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=87557"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:00:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:00:44","slug":"google-maps-finally-introduces-the-feature-youve-all-been-waiting-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/google-maps-finally-introduces-the-feature-youve-all-been-waiting-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps finally introduces the feature you&#8217;ve all been waiting for"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Google Maps<\/strong> has finally introduced one of the <strong>most desired features<\/strong> we\u2019ve been waiting for: the ability to <strong>automatically download maps for offline use<\/strong>. If you enable the option, Google is able to <strong>detect the areas <\/strong>which you frequent the most, and it will download the full map automatically.<\/p>\n<p>This option makes it possible to make<strong> full use of the map<\/strong> (even search, routes, etc), even if you\u2019re working under a bad or non-existent connection.<\/p>\n<p>For the time being, the feature is only available with the <strong>new update for Android<\/strong>, but there a new functions being introduced every day. If you can\u2019t wait for the latest, you can always download the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apkmirror.com\/apk\/google-inc\/maps\/maps-9-23-0-release\/\">APK version<\/a> of the app for the most recent version.<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s not all that\u2019s changed. Now you can make use of a persistent notification when using the <strong>navigation option<\/strong>, that now offers a much clearer interface giving you a better idea of where to go and what to look out for:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-87558\" title=\"ii9uu8pludwon3x45iq1-568x319\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/04\/ii9uu8pludwon3x45iq1-568x319-568x319.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"568\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/04\/ii9uu8pludwon3x45iq1-568x319.png 568w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/04\/ii9uu8pludwon3x45iq1-568x319-256x143.png 256w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/04\/ii9uu8pludwon3x45iq1-568x319-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/04\/ii9uu8pludwon3x45iq1-568x319-238x134.png 238w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/04\/ii9uu8pludwon3x45iq1-568x319-436x246.png 436w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/04\/ii9uu8pludwon3x45iq1-568x319-370x208.png 370w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/04\/ii9uu8pludwon3x45iq1-568x319-304x170.png 304w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Maps has finally introduced one of the most desired features we\u2019ve been waiting for: the ability to automatically download maps for offline use. If you enable the option, Google is able to detect the areas which you frequent the most, and it will download the full map automatically. This option makes it possible to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/google-maps-finally-introduces-the-feature-youve-all-been-waiting-for\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google Maps finally introduces the feature you&#8217;ve all been waiting for&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2040,"featured_media":87559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2346],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-87557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiongoogle-maps"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329116,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87557\/revisions\/329116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87557"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=87557"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=87557"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=87557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}