Google Maps update improves home and work addresses on Android Auto

Ben Schoon | Sep 27 2024 - 7:30 am PT

Recent updates to Google Maps on Android Auto have made it easier to use and edit your home and work addresses, including helping to surface those presets if you’ve not used them before.

Google Maps has long supported the ability to set addresses as your “Home” or “Work” locations in order to more easily navigate to those locations, especially from voice commands. But with the move to platforms that run on your car’s display, such as Android Auto, that functionality hasn’t been as easily visible.

Through recent updates, we’ve seen improvements in that regard.

Earlier this year, Google added the ability to “edit home or work” through the Android Auto settings menu, as pictured below. More recently, though, Google has been surfacing this setting through Maps’ suggest locations page. If you don’t have these presets set up, you might see a prompt to pick an address for those locations.

Further, there’s an improved UI for setting these addresses up directly on the car’s display, as you can simply type in the address you want to set. In the past, users had to do this from their phones or other devices.

These changes aren’t brand new, but Google is making a push to surface them to users. Through other recent updates, a pop-up has appeared for many reminding them that they can set up these presets through their car’s display.