How to save locations in Google Maps

Google Maps is an invaluable tool for everyday navigation, offering marked routes, turn by turn directions, and public transport information to help people get around. However, Maps can be used for much more than just guiding users from A to B. In addition to its way finding functionality, Google Maps also allows you to save locations for later.

It's a handy feature for trip planning, saving your favourite restaurants, or curating a list of date night ideas, letting you mark places on your Map as well as create an annotated list that you can refer back to later. Here's how to save locations in Google Maps. You can also tap a location marker on the map, or tap and hold a spot on the map to place your own marker.

If the button isn't immediately visible, you can find it by scrolling the row of buttons right. Alternatively, you can tap "+ New list" to create a new list of places to add it to. You'll be able to customise the list's name and description, as well as choose an emoji for its icon.

You'll be able to do this for saved locations on all of your Google Maps lists except "Starred places." Alternatively, you can click a location marker on the map to see its information card. It can be found next to the "Directions" button. You can save it to more than one list by repeating this process.

You can also select "New list" to create and name a new list of places to add the location to. Google Maps' location lists are private by default, so you don't have to worry about people asking exactly why you have a carefully curated and annotated list of every single onion ring vendor in the city.

However, if you do want to make your restaurant rankings public, you can share your location lists as well as control whether others are allowed to edit them..