ExpressBasics: How to save your parking location on Google Maps – The Indian Express

Google Maps has a very handy feature called Save Parking Location that lets you quickly drop a marker on the spot where you left your car, bike or any other vehicle, and navigate back to it from pretty much anywhere. This saves you from having to find your vehicle manually in case you forgot where exactly you parked it.

Heres how you can use the feature easily and save yourself a lot of time the next time youre at a mall or anywhere with a large parking area.

When you have reached your destination and parked your vehicle, simply open Google Maps, make sure it has the necessary location permissions (Precise, not Approximate, in case youre on Android 12) and follow the below instructions.

Got to the Google Maps main page and click on the My location button on the right. This is the button that is shaped like a crosshair and shows you your own precise location when its pressed. The app will then bring you to the current location, which will be indicated by a blue dot.

Tap on this blue dot to reveal some more options that will pop up on the screen from below. Under the Your Location section, find the Save Parking button. This will be on the left of the Share Location and Calibrate buttons.

Tap on the Save Parking button once and you will see a small box showing you that your parking location has been mapped. You can now navigate back to this location any time with ease.

When you have dropped a parking location on the map using the steps above, you also get access to some advanced features that let you do things like share this location with someone else, add additional parking details (like a pillar number or parking floor number) and even set a parking timer to remind you when your parking time limit is about to expire.

Tap on your parking location to reveal a small box on the bottom of the screen. Swipe up on this box to reveal these additional options.

If you have strayed far away from your parking location (denoted by a tiny, yellow flag on the map), you can still find it by zooming out on the map. When youve zoomed out enough, finer details like restaurants and smaller roads around you should be cleared, but you will still be able to see your yellow parking flag.

Tap on it and from the options that pop up below, tap on Directions to begin navigating. Based on how far you are from the parked location, Maps may suggest a walking route or a road route, but you can change this as you normally would by simply tapping on the desired mode of transportation tab.

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ExpressBasics: How to save your parking location on Google Maps - The Indian Express