Update 4:15 PM ET: Users in comments are reporting updates globally, so make sure to check yours
Late Friday afternoon here and we can pass along that Nokia has updated some offline map data for their HERE services. No, that’s not an app update but rather the map data that you hopefully have downloaded for offline usage.
We were tipped by reader Corey S. and the Windows Phone Central staff were able to confirm updates for at least Florida, Alabama, California, Connecticut, New York and Massachusetts. In other words, it looks like a lot of the US has received some form of a minor update.
And we use the word “minor” here on purpose as this is not updating all of your maps but seemingly just parts of them, hence the relatively small file sizes (our three states were 52 MB).
So how to go about getting the updates? It will depend if you are using HERE Maps from Nokia or the native Windows Phone 8 Maps. We’ll give instructions below for both.
Maps (HTC, Samsung, Huawei)
- Tap … at the bottom of the Microsoft Maps app
- Settings
- Check for Updates
- Install
HERE Maps (Lumias, anyone who uses HERE)
- Tap … at the bottom of the HERE Maps app
- Download maps
- Update current maps
- Install
Are you outside the US and have an update? Let us know and we’ll change the headline!

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