Google Maps
About this version
Maps updates arrive every week or two on Android, but the app is heavily server-driven, so most visible changes — new place features, interface experiments, AI-generated summaries — appear without any APK update at all. Version numbers tell you little; two phones on the same release can show meaningfully different interfaces depending on which experiments they have been placed in.
What recent updates focused on
- Completion of the shift from server-side Location History to on-device Timeline
- AI-assisted features such as summarised reviews and conversational place search
- Ongoing tweaks to the bottom-bar layout and the balance of recommendations versus plain map
Our update advice
There is little reason to delay updates, and old versions eventually lose compatibility with Google Play services anyway. What deserves your attention after updates is the privacy checkup rather than the changelog, since data-setting prompts and migrations occasionally require an explicit decision from you.
The authoritative source for the current version number, changelog, and
requirements is the official Google Play listing
(package com.google.android.apps.maps). Read our full assessment in the
Google Maps review.
