Google has announced a minor change to Google Maps for Android that swaps out the direction arrow with a blue beam.
Maps users will no longer see an arrow pointing in the direction of travel and will instead see a blue beam that indicates which way they are going. Google says the beam will also signal how accurate the phone’s compass is: narrow beams indicate high accuracy, while wide beams suggest the compass needs calibration.
Google Maps is free to download from the Google Play Store.
