iOS: Earlier this year, Google teamed up with Nintendo to turn Google Maps into Mario Kart, replacing the app’s usual location icon with a fist-bumping plumber riding a red go-kart. The crossover didn ...

One UI 8 may add an option to hide the location icon in the status bar when only system apps are accessing it. The icon would still appear when third-party apps access your location, alerting you to ...

Fascinating look by Rusty Mitchell (via Sebastiaan de With) at Apple’s location icons, used in Spotlight for iOS 8: In our iOS 8 UI Kit for Illustrator post, I mentioned becoming obsessed with finding ...

Google Maps has been making a lot of changes recently, including adding expanded support for electric vehicles, letting users see estimated toll prices, and much more. One interesting UI change may ...

Mercury Intermedia, in a post on Medium, shares its extensive documentation of Apple Maps’ iconography over the years: A few years ago we published a post examining the point of interest (POI) icons ...

To enable live location on Telegram, open a chat or group, tap the clip (attachment) icon, select the location icon, choose “Share My Live Location for…”, grant location access, pick your sharing ...

Privacy is a big focus of Android 12, and one of the ways that Google is addressing it is with better notification of sensor usage. While it’s not live quite yet ...