Google Maps can use data from where you parked to help you find your car. If you have the “Location on the map” function activated on your phone and you have parked in a place that you do not know well, this application can automatically mark the location of your car or motorcycle on the map. In addition, you can use the voice assistant so that you don’t have to put in the effort to write.
Save your parking
To save the exact place where we parked, it is necessary to have where on on our mobile phone. You don’t need to activate anything, but by default it will allow us to register the parking lot. You just have to keep in mind that the accuracy is more or less accurate, depending on the coverage you have. Once you have made sure that the location is working correctly and that you have the application installed, we must follow some simple steps:
- We open the Google Maps application on the mobile phone
- We wait for the application to find the exact location of our location, where a message will appear. blue point, as you see in the image
When Google has located us, it’s best to pull over to make sure the location is correct and then not get lost when looking for your car. Then we touch this point and they will show a screen that informs us about the city and the street where we are and three menu options:
- See nearby sites
- Share location
- Save where you parked the car.
Logically, what interests us is the last one: Save where you parked the car. At the bottom of the screen will appear a message indicating that it was saved correctly with two options, More Information and How to Get There. If we touch More information, it will give us the option to change the location, add a parking note, report the time left on the time ticket if we parked in a place with regulated parking and even add a photo of our location. have the package or area.
Another interesting option is the one that allows us to set the remaining time in the event that we had to get a parking ticket. In this way, with the simple fact of consulting the notification of the place where we parked the car, We will be able to see the time that we need for the ticket to be fulfilled.
Hey Google, where do I park?
It google assistant It can also be a great help to know where we parked the car. We can ask that we save the exact site where we left it and later reminded us when we went to pick it up. For this, it is also necessary that we have the location function activated on our phone. Once this is done, we will follow these steps:
- We hold the start button or say “Ok Google“.
- Then we can say: “I parked here”, “Remember where I parked”, “I parked on the second floor”, “My car is in parking lot A”, “My parking lot is A34”. If we prefer, we can also tap on the Write option and indicate the information from the mobile keyboard.
In this way, through voice commands we can ask the Google assistant remind us of the exact location, rely on Google Maps. When we go looking for it, all we have to do is:
- Press and hold the home button or say “Ok Google”.
- We ask: “Where do I have my car?”, “Where did I park?”, “Do you remember where I parked?”
In this case, we can also touch the keyboard icon if we prefer to write it. Automatically, the assistant will tell us exactly where we parked the car and we will see a map showing the car parking location.
Change your parking lot
If you saved the location of your car before disembarking and then found a better location, there is an option to change it. It is not necessary to save a good place anymore, but we can modify it by following these steps:
- Move your parking spot.
- Open the Google Maps application.
- Type in your parking location.
- At the bottom, tap Save Parking, then Change location.
- To remove the parking location from Maps, at the bottom, tap Save parking > More > Don’t save auto the parking lot
In this way, we will have new places on the map without having to restart the previous process.
