How to Change Your Home Address on Google Maps
Jun. 15, 2024Adding your home address in Google Maps saves you the hassle of typing out your address every time you want to navigate to your house. So what if you recently moved to a new place and want to change your default home address? Well, that’s pretty easy. In this guide, we’ll show you how to update and change your home address on Google Maps on Android, iOS, and desktop.
Method 1: Change Home Address on Google Maps (Android)
Google has improved its interface over the years to make it easier to identify the menu to change your home address. Here is a quick step-by-step guide explaining the process.
This process to edit your current home location is different on the iOS version of Google Maps. It is similar to what the process used to be on Android a year ago but has changed since. So this is how you change your home address in Google Maps on an iPhone.
The method again takes a turn when we pull up to the web version of Google Maps. Here, you don’t just change the address but remove the older one and replace it with the new one. Here is how you can do it.
If you work somewhere outside your hometown temporarily and don’t want to change your home address but wish to add a new one then you can do so using labels. Google Maps doesn’t allow you to add a second home address but with this method, you can add a new address and mark it as your second home.
This will add your new home address to Google Maps. However, the app will still consider the first home address as the preferred option when finding routes.
Let’s say you have added multiple home addresses using the method we discussed above. But now it is confusing to differentiate between them when typing home in the Google Maps search box. This can be easily resolved by changing the icon for your home address in the app. This will help you quickly identify which address is which at a glance.
The selected icon will be assigned to that address and will show up when you search for it. You can only assign an icon for your primary home address.
These are some of the methods that you can use to change your default home address in Google Maps on different devices. This should help you resolve the issue of having to enter your new address every time you wish to navigate to your new place. I hope you found this guide useful and if you have any questions related to any of the methods then reach out to us in the comments.
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