Order food, get travel updates: How Google Maps is changing with Gemini AI for users

Google Maps is the default app for most users on their phone and their car dashboard and now the platform is using AI to get even more powerful.

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• Google Maps integrates Gemini AI.
• Order food, get travel updates via Ask Maps.
• AI feature available in 150+ countries.

What if we tell you that you don’t need to open other food delivery apps and just ask Maps to order food for you? Yes, that’s what Gemini AI is bringing to Maps with the new feature called Ask Maps, and the new options also include the ability to get travel updates and suggestions.

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Google is making the AI feature available in more than 150 countries and users in India can try out Ask Maps in Hindi as well.

Ask Maps for Google Users: How it works

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Ask Maps is available after a new update for Maps users. This is basically a form of Gemini that runs like an AI agent and handles all the tasks you ask. You can trigger it for:

• Finding restaurants with personalised request
• Get food ordered and paid to be delivered to your address
• Give travel updates and suggestions for hotels or flights

Here’s how to get Ask Maps working on your phone

• Open Google Maps
• Swipe up from bottom to activate the Ask Maps screen
• You will see the message “Hi, X, How can I help you?”
• Now put your request like order seafood from the nearby restaurants
• Maps will use AI to generate the relevant results
• Choose from the list, add your item and make the final payment

Google uses its personalised context (from your Maps history and data) to find the ideal results that match your needs.

In the same way, Maps can help you filter out some of the best places to visit during a short work trip where you might have time to kill. You can even do this for movie bookings but some of the features are limited to select regions.

Maps goes personally AI

If that wasn’t enough, Google is letting you securely connect Ask Maps with your Gmail account and other apps like Calendar in the coming months. This way, you don’t need to give all the details to AI and simply call out the flight for tomorrow and ask what they should do after the meeting before taking the return flight back after work.

Google assures that Personal Intelligence in Ask Maps is off by default and only looks into your details when you give AI the permission.