Download areas & navigate offline

Yous can relieve an area from Google Maps to your phone or tablet and use it when you're offline.

Tip: Yous're unable to download offline maps in some countries or regions because of contractual limitations, linguistic communication support, address formats, or other reasons.

Stride 1: Download a map

Tip: Yous can relieve maps on your device or a SD card. If you modify the mode you save maps, you'll take to download the map over again.

Salve offline maps on an SD carte du jour

Offline maps are downloaded on your device's internal storage by default, but you tin download them on an SD bill of fare instead. If your device is on Android 6.0 or higher, you can only save an area to an SD carte that'southward set upwardly for portable storage. To learn how to fix your SD carte du jour, get assist from your phone'south manufacturer.

Step 2 (optional): Save bombardment & mobile data

Use offline maps

Tip: Transit, bicycling, or walking directions are unavailable offline. In your offline driving directions, you can't get traffic info, alternate routes, or lane guidance.

Manage offline maps

Detect a list of your offline maps

Delete offline maps

Rename areas y'all've downloaded for offline use

Update offline maps

Offline maps that you downloaded on your phone or tablet must exist updated earlier they expire. When your offline maps expire in xv days or less, Google Maps tries to update the surface area automatically when yous're continued to Wi-Fi.

If your offline maps aren't automatically updated, you can update them by post-obit the steps below.

From the notification

  1. In the "Update offline maps" notification, tap Update At present.
  2. Tap the expired or expiring expanse on the listing.
  3. Tap Update.

From anywhere else

Find maps based on your upcoming trips

Yous can too download offline maps based on places you're going to in the future. These trips tin can come from Gmail, Google Trips, Hangouts, and other places. You can find offline maps to download under "Recommended maps."

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