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Depending on your requirements, you are allowed to further fine-tune the download area by dragging and using multi-touch gestures like pinch-to-zoom.

A new window will appear that will ask you “Download a map of this area?” (As shown in the screenshot) and the blue box will show you the area that would be saved for offline usage.

You will see all the detailed information about the place you searched along with some prominent buttons like save, share, website, and download.

Maps will now drop a pin right at the searched place and show you a little box at the bottom.

For illustration purposes, I am going to search for “Fallsview Tourist Area”.

Tap on the search bar located at the top and enter the name of the place you are planning to visit.

If prompted, then sign in using your Google account.

On your Android device, launch the Google Maps app.

In this method, we will be using the Google Maps search functionality to save our searched location and its surrounding areas as offline on our Android device.

In case your device is not connected to the Internet during this period or Google Maps is unable to update the offline map automatically, then you will receive a notification about expiring map asking you to manually update them.

Google offline maps feature is designed to automatically update the expiring map area whenever your device has an active WiFi Internet connectivity. There are two possible ways to use Google Maps offline without Internet and we are going to discuss each one of them below.īut before we jump onto the guide, we find it important to tell you that Google’s offline maps feature will allow you to save the maximum of twenty maps at any given time and each offline map has a validity of thirty days, after which it expires and requires an update. Since these apps are dependent on the Internet connectivity, what would you do if you lost the Internet connectivity or reached your mobile data bandwidth limit while traveling? How would you reach your destination without directions?ĭon’t worry as here we are going to share with you the technique you can try right now to use Waze and Google Maps offline, which will not only help you with your day-to-day commute but you will save a significant amount of data too.