Google Maps already allows you to customize the avatar of your car in Android Auto and Carplay: This

In February of this year Google Maps received an important update to customize the avatar of our car when we are using the navigation function. The change of recently is that this experience has now spread to Android Auto and even Carplay when used Google Maps. A detail that converts the blue arrow into a model similar to our car.

The interesting thing about that update is that Google added a good variety of vehiclesfrom different models of cars to SUV and even trucks, so you can find precisely the one that imitates our real car and thus put it on the route that takes us to our destination, either on vacation or when we drive daily with it.

Google calls this customization as the driving avatar And in Spain it offers eight different models that we can paint with eight colors. The models range from the typical sedan, a 4×4, a SUV, to even a sports, utilitarian for city or simply a more basic one with colors that could imitate those of a video game, since the last three options are for red, green or yellow.

Just in these past weeks, and with one of the latest updates Android Auto received, now Google Maps will show the driving avatar when using navigation. In fact, it appears The avatar chosen with the app on the mobile and cannot be changed from the vehicle screen. Which means that if we want to change the avatar we will have to disconnect and reconnect Android Auto to do it on the mobile.

This has been precisely the change that has occurred in Google Maps in Android Auto and that is also available on the Apple Carplay platform. To change the driving avatar, it is done through the app, very when we have already chosen a route. This steps is done:

• To change the driving avatar, a long touch is made on the blue icon when starting a route.
• The interface that allows us to change between the different models of vehicles will appear.
• We select a model and then the color.

This configuration is also available when making the gesture up from the lower bar to appear the different options. You can read “driving avatar” to press it. Now the selected driving avatar should appear once connected the mobile to Android Auto or Carplay in the car.

If so, what is recommended is Update Android Auto to the latest versionbut according to 9to5googlethis novelty has appeared by surprise in recent weeks to give that special touch to navigation with Google Maps when it connects to both platforms in the car.