{"id":627166,"date":"2026-04-25T06:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/627166\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T06:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T06:29:14","slug":"google-maps-adds-bigger-street-labels-on-android-auto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/627166\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps adds bigger street labels on Android Auto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/WhatsApp-and-Google-Maps-on-Android-Auto-1.jpg\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In a handy new tweak rolling out now, Google Maps now shows more prominent street labels on Android Auto.<\/p>\n<p>Google Maps has long shown street labels along each road, but outside of your next turn, they\u2019re very small. That\u2019s changing, at least on Android Auto, as Google is rolling out a new change that shows larger street labels on Google Maps on the streets that are adjacent to your route. <\/p>\n<p>This change is very prominent when you hit the road, with the labels appearing in blue with a white outline for roads that are a part of your route \u2013 this is a slight redesign, too \u2013 while roads adjacent to your route are gray with that same white outline.<\/p>\n<p>This change is <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/products-and-platforms\/products\/maps\/ask-maps-immersive-navigation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a part<\/a> of the Google Maps Immersive Navigation redesign.<\/p>\n<p>\tAdvertisement &#8211; scroll for more content<\/p>\n<p>While this might not be helpful in every route, it\u2019s certainly useful if you\u2019re trying to get around and need to know what streets you\u2019re passing by. It\u2019s only unfortunate that this only happens when navigation is active. If the map is simply open, the bigger labels are disabled. It\u2019d be useful if this appeared on streets adjacent to the one you\u2019re currently on when navigation isn\u2019t active, since that\u2019s when that information might prove more useful.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" height=\"576\" width=\"1024\" data-id=\"712861\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/android-auto-maps-street-labels-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-712861\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" height=\"576\" width=\"1024\" data-id=\"712862\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/android-auto-maps-street-labels-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-712862\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re seeing this change on Google Maps v26.17.03 and Android Auto 16.7.661604.<\/p>\n<p>More on Android Auto:<\/p>\n<p>Follow Ben:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NexusBen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Twitter\/X<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@nexusben\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Threads<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/nexusben.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bluesky<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/nexusben\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/9to5google.com\" aria-label=\"Add 9to5Google as a preferred source on Google\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-dark\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/google-preferred-source-badge-dark.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Google as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-light\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/google-preferred-source-badge-light.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Google as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"disclaimer-affiliate\">FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/about\/#affiliate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a handy new tweak rolling out now, Google Maps now shows more prominent street labels on Android&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,61],"class_list":["post-627166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}