What can Ask Maps do now that it could not do before?

Ask Maps can take multi-step consumer actions from one sentence: order takeout by adding dishes to a cart on Square or Toast, compare real-time hotel prices then hand off to a booking partner, and buy tickets for nearby comedy or live-music events. A new live transit widget also shows minute-by-minute delays.

Which food-delivery platforms does Ask Maps support?

Ask Maps places orders through Square and Toast at launch, adding requested dishes directly to a cart on the partner site before the user confirms payment. Google says Uber Eats support is coming soon. Ask Maps factors in saved places and dietary preferences when it picks a restaurant.

What is Personal Intelligence in Ask Maps?

Personal Intelligence lets Ask Maps read a user's Gmail and Google Calendar to tailor recommendations, so a hotel search can factor in a flight time or a dinner reservation already on the calendar. Google keeps Personal Intelligence off by default; users must opt in per account.

Where is the update available?

The agentic food, hotel, and event actions launch in the United States first. The core Ask Maps assistant is rolling out to Australia, Brazil, Canada, Indonesia, Japan and Mexico, plus more than 150 countries in English. Personal Intelligence and the live transit widget follow the wider Ask Maps rollout.

How does Ask Maps compare to Google's AI Mode in Search?

Ask Maps runs the Gemini agent inside Google Maps and focuses on place-based tasks — restaurants along a route, hotels near a venue, events in a city. Google's AI Mode in Search is a broader agentic search interface. The Maps update pushes agentic commerce into the app people already use to find places.

Google · 2026-08-06 · major

Google Ask Maps — Gemini agent orders food, books hotels, and buys event tickets

Ask Maps, Google Maps's Gemini assistant, now assembles takeout carts on Square and Toast, compares hotel prices, buys event tickets, and reads a user's Gmail and Calendar. Agentic actions launch in the US; Ask Maps hits 150+ countries.

Google's Ask Maps hero image showing the Gemini-powered assistant in Google Maps

Google Maps' Ask Maps assistant can now order food, book hotels and buy event tickets in one sentence.

Quick facts

Maker	Google
Product	Ask Maps, the Gemini-powered chat inside Google Maps
New actions	Order food, book hotels, buy event tickets
Food partners	Square and Toast (Uber Eats coming soon)
Personal Intelligence	Connects Gmail and Calendar; off by default
Agentic rollout	United States first, expanding later
Ask Maps expansion	Australia, Brazil, Canada, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, 150+ countries in English

What is it?

Ask Maps is the Gemini-powered chat inside Google Maps. From today it does more than answer questions: it can order takeout on Square or Toast, compare hotel prices and hand off to a booking partner, buy tickets to nearby events, and pull context from Gmail and Google Calendar when the user opts in through a feature Google calls Personal Intelligence.

How does it work?

The Ask Maps agent handles multi-step consumer requests in natural language, assembling a restaurant cart on a partner platform before the user pays, and checking real-time hotel availability across booking sites. A separate live transit widget streams minute-by-minute delays on buses, trains, subways and ferries, and conversation memory keeps context across sessions when history is on.

Why does it matter?

This is the first Google product where an AI agent takes real consumer actions at scale — spending money on food, hotels and tickets from a single Maps prompt. It lands the same week Google Search's AI Mode also pushed further into agentic bookings, signalling that Gemini agents are moving from answers to transactions in the apps people already use daily.

Who is it for?

Google Maps users in the US and 150+ English-speaking countries

Frequently asked questions

What can Ask Maps do now that it could not do before?: Ask Maps can take multi-step consumer actions from one sentence: order takeout by adding dishes to a cart on Square or Toast, compare real-time hotel prices then hand off to a booking partner, and buy tickets for nearby comedy or live-music events. A new live transit widget also shows minute-by-minute delays.
Which food-delivery platforms does Ask Maps support?: Ask Maps places orders through Square and Toast at launch, adding requested dishes directly to a cart on the partner site before the user confirms payment. Google says Uber Eats support is coming soon. Ask Maps factors in saved places and dietary preferences when it picks a restaurant.
What is Personal Intelligence in Ask Maps?: Personal Intelligence lets Ask Maps read a user's Gmail and Google Calendar to tailor recommendations, so a hotel search can factor in a flight time or a dinner reservation already on the calendar. Google keeps Personal Intelligence off by default; users must opt in per account.
Where is the update available?: The agentic food, hotel, and event actions launch in the United States first. The core Ask Maps assistant is rolling out to Australia, Brazil, Canada, Indonesia, Japan and Mexico, plus more than 150 countries in English. Personal Intelligence and the live transit widget follow the wider Ask Maps rollout.
How does Ask Maps compare to Google's AI Mode in Search?: Ask Maps runs the Gemini agent inside Google Maps and focuses on place-based tasks — restaurants along a route, hotels near a venue, events in a city. Google's AI Mode in Search is a broader agentic search interface. The Maps update pushes agentic commerce into the app people already use to find places.

Try it

Open Google Maps and tap Ask Maps