Compass Icon: The compass icon locks you to the map orientation since maps use north-to-south orientation. In Google Maps, the north stays on the map and rotates to match your direction.

Now, though, Google's updated Google Maps to offer 5 more options — each available in one of 8 colors. Though it isn't quite so easy to figure out how. Here's how to customize your car icon in ...

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 ...

Through Android Auto, Google Maps will now show your car icon of choice on your car’s display. This reflects whatever you’ve set via the phone app, and can’t be changed on the car display ...

New car icon options are coming to Google Maps, and you can change their color. Now, in an upcoming update, Google Maps will receive a set of new customizable car icons.

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. More on Google Maps: ...

I’m not seeing this icon tweak in my beta version of Google Maps, suggesting a small-scale test or gradual release to beta users. The outlet also noted that Google previously tested this change ...

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.