Google Maps allows you to keep tabs on important or memorable locations by allowing you to drop a pin on your map. Here's how use pins in Google Maps.

After rolling out the simplified bottom bar on Android and iOS, a Google Maps redesign of pins introduces new colors and shapes.

If you have a lot of saved places, Google Maps can look a bit unwieldy with all those pins, and the app is now testing using small dots to address that. At the moment, pins — stars, flags, hearts, etc ...