Higher-contrast dark theme colors, parking, rental, and charging capacity, and more in the January 2026 release
January 16, 2026
Let's start 2026 with an Organic Maps update, made possible by all our contributors! Install it from https://omaps.app/get or from App Store, Google Play, Huawei AppGallery, Obtainium, Accrescent, and F-Droid
Release notes (all platforms)
- Higher-contrast dark theme colors (David Martinez)
- Updated OpenStreetMap data (January 11) (Viktor Govako)
- Added Albanian voice guidance (TTS) (Alexander Borsuk)
- Added Bulgarian search synonyms (Clippy)
- Excluded casinos from the "Entertainment" category (Clippy)
- Reduced the thickness of subway lines (Manik)
- Added capacity information to search results for motorcycle parking, bicycle rental, bicycle charging, and car charging (David Martinez)
- Added floor level to search results (David Martinez)
Translations
- Added Albanian app translations (Alexander Borsuk)
- Updated the FAQ and added FAQ translations for Arabic, Czech, Dutch, Farsi, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Lithuanian, Marathi, Swedish, Telugu (Alexander Borsuk)
- Improved German app and FAQ translations (DaN0mic)
- Improved Latin American Spanish app translations (Alexander Borsuk)
- Renamed the "Zoom buttons" setting for clarity (Alexander Borsuk)
- Translation fixes from Weblate contributors for various languages (Viktor Govako)
iOS only changes
- Wider route planning buttons (Kiryl Kaveryn)
Android only changes
- Added Google Assistant support for navigation and search (skirm-tech)
- Updated the "Auto" navigation theme setting to follow the system dark/light mode (Dzmitry Strekha)
- Fixed a crash when starting navigation (Owm Dubey)
- Fixed a crash when uploading notes to OpenStreetMap (Prakamy Awasthi)
- Fixed a crash in Android Auto (Alexander Borsuk)
- Fixed missing TTS voice guidance announcements (Alexander Borsuk)
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