Relying on your Google Pixel 8’s GPS for navigation can be incredibly convenient until it suddenly stops working. There are several reasons why your GPS might malfunction, including software glitches, ...

Google Maps and Waze are spearheading the mobile navigation software space, and every little bug they hit could be bad news for lots of drivers. Given both are owned by Google, most users out there ...

If Android Auto navigation apps, be they Google Maps or Waze, lose tracking all of a sudden, there’s a good chance the whole thing comes down to a GPS problem that others are struggling with as well.

GPS tracking is one of those things whose importance you only realize when disaster strikes. GPS tracking apps for Android have been around for ages, and they’ve only improved since then. Nowadays, ...

Many smartphone users assume that turning off GPS completely hides their location. However, Google can still estimate where ...

Google can track your location even if your GPS is off. Discover how Wi-Fi networks and mobile towers can pinpoint you, and ...

Turning off GPS doesn’t completely hide your location. Google can still estimate where you are using Wi-Fi, mobile towers, ...

Originally posted in the Android Developers Blog, the following is reprinted with permission from authors Frank van Diggelen, principal engineer, and Jennifer Wang, product manager, Google. At Android ...

A security researcher with antivirus maker ESET has discovered a collection of 19 Android apps that pose as GPS applications but which don't do anything but show ads on top of the legitimate Google ...

19 Android apps with over 50 million installs were found on the Google Play store that state that they are full featured GPS apps, but instead simply show an advertisement and then show Google Maps.

Fake Android GPS apps that just show an ad and run Google Maps are running amok in the Play Store. In total, 19 apps have been found to exhibit this behavior. They have accumulated more than 50 ...