Use Google Maps built into your car when offline

You can use offline maps for reliable navigation and safety features when your car has a poor Internet connection.

Offline maps can be automatically downloaded and updated based on your current location and travel patterns.

Important: 

• This article is only for Google Maps built into your car. Feature availability or functionality may depend on your car manufacturer or region and data plan. Learn more about using Google Maps for your car.
• This feature isn't available in all languages and countries/regions. You'll be notified if you're outside the area covered by your Offline Maps.

Let Google Maps manage your offline maps

Google Maps provides data via Vehicle Map Service (VMS) to support safety-related driver assistance features in cars, like road sign integration and adaptive cruise control. These safety features rely on offline map data. To ensure that map data is always available, turn on 'auto-download' in the privacy centre.

Turn on auto-download in the Privacy Centre

To turn on auto-download:

1. Open the Google Maps app .
2. At the bottom, tap Settings .
3. Tap Privacy Centre  Offline maps.
4. Select Auto-download offline maps.
5. Make sure that you have an Internet connection and wait for your offline map download to finish.

Tip: If you turn off auto-download, already downloaded maps will remain saved, but no new maps will be automatically downloaded.

Manage offline maps

On your car, under 'Offline maps', your offline maps will show:

1. Auto-downloaded maps based on your car’s movements, if you’ve turned on auto-download before.
2. Optional: Home and Work maps, if you’re signed in.
3. Optional: Maps that you’ve downloaded manually.

Tip: Home and Work maps are based on your home and work address, or your Google Account’s location history.

Download offline maps

You can only download offline maps with a data plan.

To download offline maps:

1. Open the Google Maps app .
2. At the bottom, tap Settings   Offline maps.
3. Tap Select your own map .
4. Move the map to cover the area that you'd like to download.
5. Tap Download 

Rename offline maps

1. Open the Google Maps app .
2. At the bottom, tap Settings   Offline maps.
3. Select a map to edit, then tap Rename .

Update offline maps

1. Open the Google Maps app .
2. At the bottom, tap Settings   Offline maps.
3. Select a map to edit, then tap Update .

Delete offline maps

1. Open the Google Maps app .
2. At the bottom, tap Settings   Offline maps.
3. Select a map to edit, then tap Delete 

Tip: If you delete the auto-downloaded map while auto-download is turned on, the area around your current location will be automatically downloaded to replace the deleted map.

Related resources

• Learn how to use offline maps on other platforms
• Learn how to use Maps features without a data plan