{"id":1322,"date":"2025-05-08T06:55:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T06:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/?p=1322"},"modified":"2025-05-08T06:55:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T06:55:37","slug":"google-maps-gets-a-screenshot-tool-that-eases-travel-planning-on-your-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/2025\/05\/08\/google-maps-gets-a-screenshot-tool-that-eases-travel-planning-on-your-iphone\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps gets a screenshot tool that eases travel planning on your iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A few weeks ago, Google announced a bunch of new features targeted at digital travel planning, such as hotel price tracking and deploying AI as a personal guide. Among them was also aneat trick that could extract address details from screenshotsand save them to Google Maps. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That feature has now started to roll out slowly. Users started receiving it this week, it seems, and earlier today, Google also released a blogupdateinstructing users on how to enable it. For now, it is focused on iOS, but the facility will soon land on Android, as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Why does it matter? <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I often save Google Search listings, social media ads, and blog posts about a certain place, restaurant, monument, or stuff related to my travel plans as screenshots. It\u2019s the quickest way to save such information, especially for scenarios where you don\u2019t have the time to type it all as a note.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Woah this new Google map feature where it can scan screenshot and save the place. Genius! Something I\u2019ve needed for a long time bc I have so many random screenshots\u2014 coleen \ud83c\udf34\ud83d\udc3a (@fluffybbom)May 4, 2025<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

When I eventually return to them, I mostly use Google Lens to extract the text details from those screenshots, and accordingly save them either in my planner notes, or custom lists in Google Maps\u2019 \u201cYou\u201d section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, thanks to Gemini, the AI assistant will automatically look for such information in screenshots saved on your phone, and add them to a dedicated list in the Google Maps app. \u201cPlaces you save will show up on the map, and you can easily share the list with your travel buddies,\u201d Google said back in March.\"Picking<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new feature is somewhat similar toGemini\u2019s file analysis capabilities. When you open a document, let\u2019s say a PDF, in the Files app, you will see a Gemini chip at the top that lets you ask Gemini questions about the contents of the file. It works quite well, actually. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How to enable it? <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In order to let Gemini scan your screenshots and automatically add them to a dedicated list in Google Maps, follow these steps: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Make sure that you are running the latest version of the Google Maps app on your iPhone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Open the Google Maps app and tap on the \u201cYou\u201d option in the bottom row. \"AIGoogle<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. On the next page, you will see a new list named Screenshots, with a \u201cTry it out!\u201d badge attached to it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. When you tap on it, the app will show a brief tutorial video on how it works. At this point, you will need to grant the app permission to access the media files stored locally on your iPhone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. The next time you take a screenshot with address-related information mentioned in it, it will be scanned in the background. When you open the Google Maps app afterward, it will inform you that there are new location details ready for review. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

6. Approve the addresses that you want to save, and they will automatically be added to the list. Users will also be able to do a manual screenshot scan from within the \u201cYou\u201d tab in the app. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

7. The saved addresses will appear in the \u201cScreenshots\u201d list and the map view. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago, Google announced a bunch of new features targeted at digital travel planning, such as hotel price tracking and deploying AI as a personal guide. Among them was also aneat trick that could extract address details from screenshotsand save them to Google Maps.  That feature has now started to roll out slowly. … Continue reading Google Maps gets a screenshot tool that eases travel planning on your iPhone<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1323,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions\/1323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}