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How to Share a Google Maps Route With Someone Else

Select your route, then share it from Google Maps. Here are the desktop and mobile steps—and what the recipient can and cannot expect from the link.
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To share a Google Maps route, enter the start and destination, select the route you want, then use Share on a computer or More → Share directions in the mobile app. The recipient can open the directions, but the link does not guarantee that both devices will show an identical route or navigation experience.

Share a route from a computer

  1. Open Google Maps and select Directions.

  2. Enter the starting point and destination.

  3. If Google Maps shows alternatives, select the route you want to share. Google’s desktop directions instructions describe the available sharing options.

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  4. Select Share.

  5. For a text or email, choose Send a link, then copy the link and paste it into your message. You can also choose an available app-sharing option or embed a map in a web page.

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Share directions from an iPhone or iPad

  1. Open the Google Maps app and tap Directions.

  2. Enter the starting point and destination, then select the route you want.

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  3. Tap More in the upper-right corner, then tap Share directions.

  4. Choose the app you want to use to send the directions. These steps are documented in Google’s iPhone and iPad directions help.

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Share directions from Android

  1. In Google Maps, enter the destination and request directions. Set the starting point if it is not your current location.

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  2. Choose the route you want on the map. Google notes that alternative routes can be selected and that routes display estimated travel times; see Google’s Android directions help.

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  3. Open the directions’ More menu and choose Share directions.

  4. Select an app to send the link.

Menu wording or placement can differ with app version and language, and route modes and availability vary.

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Will the recipient get the exact same route?

The link shares directions for the recipient to open; it is not a promise that both people will see a permanently locked route or identical turn-by-turn navigation. Google documents route selection and notes that some directions have limited availability, but its help pages do not guarantee that a route will remain identical across devices or over time. Traffic, location, travel mode, and available routes can affect what appears.

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  • Before sharing, confirm that you selected the intended route if alternatives are shown.

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  • Ask the recipient to open the link and check the starting point, destination, and travel mode.

  • If the exact endpoints matter, include the origin and destination in your message as a fallback.

Route sharing is different from sending directions to your own phone

Share directions sends route directions to another person. Send to phone is a separate desktop feature for sending searched directions to one of your own devices. Google says that the devices must use the same account and that this desktop option does not support multiple destinations. See Google’s directions help for the desktop options and its mobile help for app sharing.

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Neither should be confused with sharing a place or pin, or with sharing trip progress or real-time location: those features share a location rather than the route directions workflow.

Can you share a route with multiple stops?

Google’s desktop directions help says a route can have up to nine stops, counting the final destination, and that stops can be reordered. The documented restriction that Send to phone does not work with multiple destinations applies to sending directions to your own device; it does not establish that route-link sharing has the same restriction. See Google’s desktop directions help.

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