How to Turn On or Off Automatic Updates for Offline Maps in Windows 10


Windows 10 comes with the Maps app preinstalled. Maps is your guide to everywhere. Find your way with voice navigation and turn-by-turn driving, transit, and walking directions. Search for places to get directions, business info, and reviews. Download maps to use when you’re offline. Tour the world virtually with aerial imagery and 360 degree street-level views. Plus, you get the same experience across all your Windows 10 PCs and phones.

If you would like to search for places and get directions in the Maps app even when you are not connected to the Internet, you should download maps for offline use.

If you like, you can turn on automatic updates for maps. Maps will only be automatically updated when your device is plugged in (AC power) and you're not on a metered connection.

UPDATE 6/01/2020: Bing Maps is updating its base map data source

This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off to automatically update offline maps for all users in Windows 10.


For a Windows 11 version of this tutorial, see:

Enable or Disable Automatically Update Offline Maps in Windows 11



Contents

  • Option One: To Turn On or Off Automatic Map Updates in Settings
  • Option Two: To Turn On or Off Automatic Map Updates using a REG file






OPTION ONE

To Turn On or Off Automatic Map Updates in Settings


1 Open Settings, and click/tap on the Apps icon.

2 Click/tap on Offline maps on the left side, and turn On (default) or Off Automatically update maps under Map updates on the right side for what you want. (see screenshot below)

3 When finished, you can close Settings if you like.

Turn On or Off Automatic Updates for Offline Maps in Windows 10-offline_maps_automatic_map_updates-1.jpg






OPTION TWO

To Turn On or Off Automatic Map Updates using a REG file


You must be signed in as an administrator to be able to do this option.

The downloadable .reg files below will modify the DWORD value in the registry key below.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Maps

AutoUpdateEnabled DWORD

0 = Off
1 = On


1 Do step 2 (on) or step 3 (off) below for what you would like to do.


2 To Turn On Automatic Map Updates

This is the default setting.

A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Turn_On_Automatically_Update_Maps.reg

Download


3 To Turn Off Automatic Map Updates

A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Turn_Off_Automatically_Update_Maps.reg

Download


4 Save the .reg file to your desktop.

5 Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

6 When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

7 If you like, you can now delete the downloaded .reg file.


That's it,
Shawn Brink


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