{"id":1459,"date":"2025-06-04T06:25:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T06:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/?p=1459"},"modified":"2025-06-04T06:25:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T06:25:24","slug":"google-maps-lets-you-customize-your-car-icon-on-android-and-ios-heres-how-to-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/2025\/06\/04\/google-maps-lets-you-customize-your-car-icon-on-android-and-ios-heres-how-to-do-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps lets you customize your car icon on Android and iOS \u2014 here\u2019s how to do it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There are 8 different cars to choose from\"How<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you’re driving around on Google Maps, whether you’re an Android or iPhone user, you’ll always be represented on the map with the boring default arrow icon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But what if I told you that it doesn’t have to be that way? Because you can change the look of your avatar, and Google’s just released a bunch of new options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the past Google only offered 3 alternate options, 3 colorful vehicles to mix up your navigation screen. Now, though, Google’s updated Google Maps to offer 5 more options \u2014 each available in one of 8 colors. Though it isn’t quite so easy to figure out how.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s how to customize your car icon in Google Maps on Android and iOS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1. Start navigation to anywhere<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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The first thing you need to do is start navigation. It doesn’t matter where to, or if you even plan to go, just find a location with the search bar, thentap<\/strong>Start.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2. Tap your existing user icon\"google<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The arrow icon in the center of the screen is your user icon, and the next step is totap it.<\/strong>It may sometimes appear as a large white dot with a blue center<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Pick a new car icon\"google<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

You’ll then see a pop-up menu showing off different icons you can use \u2014 including the arrow and a bunch of different cars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simply scroll left and right until you find the avatar you like, andtap it<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. Pick your favorite color<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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There are 8 different cars to choose from When you’re driving around on Google Maps, whether you’re an Android or iPhone user, you’ll always be represented on the map with the boring default arrow icon. But what if I told you that it doesn’t have to be that way? Because you can change the look … Continue reading Google Maps lets you customize your car icon on Android and iOS \u2014 here\u2019s how to do it<\/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":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459","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=1459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1460,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions\/1460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}