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Google Maps Brings Gemini Navigation to Walking and Cycling

Gemini AI now supports walking and cycling navigation on iOS worldwide, with Android rolling out soon, enabling hands-free, conversational route assistance for safer travel.

  • Starting today, Google is rolling Gemini into Maps for walking and cycling, live worldwide on iOS where Gemini is available, with Android support rolling out over the coming month.
  • To reduce screen use while moving, Google designed Gemini in navigation to offer hands-free prompts and built the assistant inside the navigation view, triggered via the Gemini icon or `Hey Google` hotword.
  • Gemini pulls map and POI data to answer context-aware questions while walking and accepts multi-step prompts like `Navigate home`, `Add stop`, and Android-only `Text Sarah I’m 10 minutes behind`.
  • For walkers and cyclists, the change reduces screen use and aims to improve safety by enabling voice-only tasks, letting riders keep both hands on handlebars while managing schedules and messages.
  • Having debuted for driving in November, Gemini now extends those capabilities to walking and cycling, highlighting Google’s push to integrate AI assistants into everyday mobility beyond chat apps.
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cnet broke the news in New York, United States on Thursday, January 29, 2026.
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