A irritating bug in Google Maps for CarPlay has left customers with out the everyday route preview earlier than beginning turn-by-turn navigation – fortunately, it’s been fastened.
If you happen to’re a Google Maps consumer on Apple CarPlay, you’ll have observed currently that turn-by-turn navigation now not exhibits a preview of the route earlier than you go in your method. Often, Maps will zoom out to indicate a preview of your full route earlier than navigation truly begins, providing a fast look at the place you’ll be headed, in addition to site visitors situations alongside the route.
Out of the blue, that’s not exhibiting, as fairly just a few CarPlay customers have famous on Reddit.
The change appears to have include latest Google Maps app updates, and began taking place somewhat over every week in the past. It’s not solely clear how widespread the issue was however, in our testing, we have been seeing a bug the place the route preview would present for roughly a second earlier than zooming again in to a street-level preview.
With the newest Google Maps replace, although, it seems Google has fastened this downside. As soon as once more, Maps is exhibiting zoomed-out route previews on CarPlay. At the least one different consumer is seeing the identical conduct we’re.
Random quirks like this are, sadly, not all that unusual for Google Maps on automobile shows. Earlier this month, Google Maps on Android Auto additionally needed to repair a show bug the place the maps could be centered to the show reasonably than the UI, which was irksome to say the least.
If you happen to’re nonetheless having hassle with Google Maps route previews on CarPlay, verify the App Retailer for updates.
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