When an app uses your mic or tracks your location, Windows displays small icons in the taskbar. Hovering over these icons ...

With a revamped privacy indicator appearing as a tappable blue icon in the status bar, you can see exactly which apps are ...

One UI 8 may add an option to hide the location icon in the status bar when only system apps are accessing it. The icon would still appear when third-party apps access your location, alerting you to ...

The Location Tracking service in Windows 11/10 will tell apps where your location is, and you may or may not want this. When any app uses the Location settings to identify your location, you will see ...

Google Maps has been making a lot of changes recently, including adding expanded support for electric vehicles, letting users see estimated toll prices, and much more. One interesting UI change may ...

Fascinating look by Rusty Mitchell (via Sebastiaan de With) at Apple’s location icons, used in Spotlight for iOS 8: In our iOS 8 UI Kit for Illustrator post, I mentioned becoming obsessed with finding ...

Google Maps is the most popular app with more than a billion active users monthly. It uses various icons and symbols to represent various places. Every symbol and icon used on Google Maps and what ...

To manage the “Your Location Is Currently in Use” message on Windows, you can disable location services entirely or control access for individual apps via ...

Google Maps has recently rolled out a change where, at least on iOS, the app will automatically detect that you’ve parked your vehicle and save that location, and it will also now show it with a ...

We're know you're aware of Google Maps (you're on Mashable afterall). A free navigation tool available online and as an iOS and Android app, the service offers turn-by-turn walking, cycling, and ...

In this digital era, sharing location has become considerably easier. One can share their location with their loved ones with a simple tap or click on their smartphone. This crucial function of ...