Google quietly launched an replace to its Google Maps interface that updates the colour palette for cellphone and desktop customers: Roads are grey, water is a brighter greenish-blue, and parks are a bluish-green. The tweak appears to be rolling out slowly, and reactions — a minimum of anecdotally — have been blended.
The palette replace is a shift away from Google Maps’ extra conventional look and is nearer to the hues utilized by Apple Maps, as identified by 9to5Google, which wrote in regards to the UI replace earlier and known as it a check. Amusingly, this follows Apple lastly letting customers obtain maps to make use of offline, within the iOS 17 software program replace coming in September, a characteristic Google Maps has had for years.
Other than resembling the colours utilized by Google’s rival in mapping software program, the brand new Google Maps hues aren’t as simply distinguishable as that they had been earlier than. Most notably, the tones for water and nature/park areas are shut sufficient to bleed collectively.
Fortuitously for people who do not like the brand new look, Google Maps is comparatively unchanged in darkish mode.
Google did not instantly reply to a request for remark.
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