Google Tricks & Tips – 21st Edition 2025

Google’s app collection covers far more than search. This illustrated guide takes readers through a wide range of Google tools, from Maps and Translate to Photos, YouTube and Drive, with practical walkthroughs that make individual features easier to explore.

Across its 21st edition, the focus is on everyday tasks: sharing a map, organizing photos, restoring a deleted Drive file, working with documents and spreadsheets, and publishing or livestreaming video. It’s a broad, step-by-step tour for curious users who want to get more familiar with the services they use—or find features they may have missed.

Explore more of Google Maps 🗺️

The Maps section looks at sharing and embedding maps, adding directions, and finding photo tours and street-level views. Google Earth receives its own introduction, alongside practical guides to Google Translate and Google Flights.

Make more of photos and video

Readers can follow tutorials on getting started with Google Photos, making collages and animations, editing images, and organizing albums. The YouTube coverage moves from using the app to uploading and livestreaming video.

Work across Google’s apps

The guide also visits Drive, Docs, Sheets, Drawings and Slides, with topics that include restoring deleted files and using templates and forms. Google Keep, Google Pay, the Play Store and Blogger round out the tour, giving the publication a useful breadth beyond any single app.

A visual, task-by-task reference

Rather than concentrating on one service, Google Tricks & Tips presents a sequence of focused tutorials. That format makes it easy to turn to a particular tool or task, while the illustrations help clarify the steps being discussed.

This edition may be useful to readers who prefer guided instructions to exploring every menu on their own. Google’s apps and interfaces evolve, so some screen details or service features may differ today—but the publication offers a broad snapshot of the tools and workflows it covers.