You can join community challenges to support local businesses, share your take on the places that you love and then earn bonus points in the Google Maps app. If there's a community challenge for you, you can find it in the Contribute tab.
Important: This feature is only available in select countries.
Join a community challenge
- On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Maps app .
- At the bottom, tap Contribute.
- Once you find the 'Community challenge' section, tap Get started.
Contribute to a community challenge
- On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Maps app .
- Add eligible places to the challenge by doing either of the following:
- Continue visiting your favourite places.
- On the community challenge page, under 'Pick a place', tap Search.
- For places that appear on the community challenge page, prepare a post.
- Depending on the type of challenge, you can add photos, ratings, reviews or even suggest an edit.
Tip: You can earn points with every post. When you reach a milestone during a challenge, you can earn bonus points. Learn more about points, levels and badging.
Find your contributions to the latest community challenge
- On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Maps app .
- At the bottom, tap Contribute.
- On the 'Challenge completed' card, tap See contributions.
Tip: After the latest community challenge has ended, you can find a summary of your personal contributions for up to a week.