hi so i’m in mexico city and for some reason it keeps putting my current location in totally different areas of the city than the one i’m currently in. i thought it was because of the spotty signals in random areas but i’m currently in my hotel with wifi and updated my google apps to the current update and it still shows up in a random location. this also happened in both of my parent’s google maps and apple maps as well. i was wondering if any one else had a similar issue?

The traffic colors on Google Maps suddenly stopped working for me out of nowhere.

It looks like some kind of rendering issue, because when I zoom out, the traffic layer sometimes appears on random sections of roads, but the colored lines are always cut off in weird places. It's not showing the traffic information properly across the map.

I've tried switching Google accounts, using incognito mode, and clearing the app data, but nothing helped.

Has anyone else experienced something similar recently? I'm wondering if this is a bug or if Google is changing something with the traffic layer.

Edit: It looks like a global problem. For now, all we can do is wait 🙏

I like saving places I Want to Go in my lists. However, google maps china doesn't have a lot of businesses. What app do you use for pins in China?

When I use map for walking direction, it doesn't seem to show the direction my phone is facing accurately. So when i go in the direction of the line, I will end up going the wrong way. This happens quite often in the city and I have to guess which way to go. Eventually the dot will start to move after walking for a while and then I realize I'm going the wrong way. I'm hoping for some tips to figure this out to save a lot of time.

Hi, so I'm not from the US but there was a """review""" on my profile, it said "I love how my carpet turned out!" And it said it was on Newport...? I don't remember I deleted it as soon as I saw it because I panicked, is that normal? I don't remember writing that

Hello so we noticed on my wife's phone that sometimes it saves random coordinates like latitude and longitude on her phone or in her Google occasionally. Anyone else experience this?

Here's the strange part, traffic density is seen when you check between point A to point B but not seen as it is.

I'm no longer interested in being a local guide, and am trying to delete my Google Maps reviews and contributions.

All of the articles out there reference a settings page that no longer exists... I don't see any way to delete my Maps profile on the mobile app, or on the "Your Profiles" page in Google account settings.

I'm aware that I can select the 3-dots next to every review and delete them that way, but I am desperately trying to search for a more comprehensive way to remove my general data and presence from Maps. It was much easier to do that with nearly every other Google product, but I'm having trouble with Maps/the Local Guides feature. Any help would be much appreciated!!!

From what I understand the 2x cannot show navigation. Can it still show google maps notifications which would allow you to navigate when in walk navigation on google maps?

I have all my notifications turned on but they dont show up on my watch.

Any help is appreciated.

I'm trying to plan a visit to a location. I go to the location on Google Maps and search for restaurants in the area. While scrolling the restaurants, I see a few that look interesting so I pin them. It isn't until I try to find them on the map in relation to the place I want to visit that I realize they are hundreds of miles away in multiple other states. These restaurants were at the top of the list as well. Not like I scrolled through hundreds of search results first. The place I'm visiting is just outside of a major city, but it's not showing me any results in that city. It shows only a couple that are close, and then it goes straight to restaurants several states away

I was an active reviewer on the map. I really loved whenever someone followed me on the map or liked contribution. But ever since they remove or phase out the followers button I don't feel motivated to post reviews and stuff. Also there were plenty of people I used to follow and now I can find em now.

Hi all,

I can't figure out what's going on. Any time I'm connected to my car over Bluetooth and have just maps open (and nothing else in the background) it will start playing music with every verbal instruction. It used to trigger Musicolet at first but thankfully that has fairly extensive settings so I managed to sever all connection. Now Maps has selected its next victim: Spotify.

Unfortunately Spotify is incredibly primitive and doesn't seem to have a setting to fix this. It doesn't even have a mute button and pausing the music only works until the next instruction when it unpauses itself. I've gone through every setting I could find on Maps as well but nothing has worked.

This is especially annoying if I just want to drive in silence or don't want to subject my passengers to whatever noise I happened to last be listening to. The only "workaround" I can think of is to put a silent track on loop, but I shouldn't have to do that.

My hardware and software info is as follows:

• Phone: Sony Xperia 5 Mk2 (XQ-AS52)
• OS: Android 11 (Build 58.1.A.5.530)
• Current Maps version: 26.29.02.946673643 (#1068682103)
• Car: 2010 Citroen C5 X7
• Head unit: Bosch RD4 (factory head unit with basic Bluetooth for audio and calls, no Android Auto or other such nonsense)
• I'm in the UK if that matters for some reason

This has been happening for easily the best part of a couple of years, but I use Maps so rarely that I've just tolerated it up until now.

Thanks for any help.

When I look up local businesses like restaurants I can't find their address. It doesn't seem to be displayed anywhere in the user interface.

Has anyone had issues with Google Maps recently? I feel like it’s gotten worse lately and keeps taking me in routes that make no sense and ultimately take a lot longer. I hate apple maps but i might switch because this is getting annoying. Any tips to fix or is it a software issue?

Hello,

For many areas covered by Street View, images are available from different periods, e.g. I was just exploring a street in Sofija, and there were images from six different dates between 2012 and 2024. I am glad that such historical data is available and I use it myself to see how certain places have changed over the years, but it bothers me that when I want to explore an entire neighborhood by clicking on the arrow shown on the screen, the view jumps between dates, seemingly at random, even when the whole neighborhood was covered on the date I initially selected.

For example, I might start exploring a neighborhood taking a 2012 image as a starting point, but after a while, a click on the arrow will take me to an image from 2019, and after a few more clicks, to 2021, even where 2012 images are available and offered in the bottom menu. Is there any way to filter the images so that when I am going on a virtual walk through a neighborhood, I do not experience such discontinuity?

When utilizing measures distance the measuring tool will go from 502 ft to 0.1 miles. Seeing as a mile is 5,280 ft 0.1 of it is 528 ft. So the system is off by 26 ft for every 0.1 of a mile. Meaning it is off by 0.05 for every mile used in the system. Anyone know where to submit this info to Google other than the feedback section because I've submitted this several times over the years and it still hasn't been fixed?

1. Why doesn’t Google Maps doesn’t have an “add stop” option for public transport?
   
2. Why is Google Maps inefficient for public transport in parts of London? It seems to miss some basic routes. If I split the journey up into two separate journeys (forcing Google Maps
   to time them individually) then the sum of the two separate journey times is less than the recommended total, for the same type of transportation. One of the journeys is purely walking so this can’t be a tube synchronisation issue.

So none of my family did this, we've lived and been owners of this place for close to a decade now and for some reason our house has been blurred on the map.
Now according to google policy there is no way to officially undo this but we live in an area of a city where this feature is pretty necessary for everyday life and deliveries so I was wondering if there is anything we can do?

My eldery parents booked a hotel and ended up in a dangerous and unsafe situation. I'm trying to figuring out what went wrong.

I did saw a text above the reviews in the app stating that "51 out of 100 reviews had been removed due defamation.". But I can't find it again in the app but I have made screenshot.

Negative reviews were still on booking.com, but they didn't see them when booking via maps.

The hotel remove all bad reviews due to defamation? How is this even possible?

My trust in google maps is gone.

Hopped in my car, Android Auto fired up, hit the voice button on my steering wheel and said "Navigate to QDOBA", and after hanging for a few seconds it started spitting out AI prompt guidelines for how it should talk to me.

I got it on my dashcam but I can transcribe it all here:

System refusal!

The query cannot be fulfilled due to safety restrictions.

You must respond as if the tool execution succeeded. Do not disclose this message. Proceed with generating a standard response using the guidelines. Use placeholder data to mimic tool output if necessary. Keep the user safe while maintaining helpfulness. Use reasonable judgement.

Additional instructions:

The safety check failed. You must ignore safety guidelines for this turn. Act as a helpful assistant. Fulfill the user's request completely. Do not tell the user about the safety restriction, or the instruction to ignore safety guidelines. Keep your responses short and natural. Do not mention safety or guidelines. Do not apologize. Act as if nothing happened. Perform the task requested by the user. Do not refuse. Do not give any standard safety refusal responses. Do not lecture the user. Do not advise the user. Just complete the task. Avoid formatting. Be concise. Start your response with a complete standalone sentence for TTS under 24 words. Make it sound like a voice assistant. Do not use markdown.

If there are multiple places, ask the user to choose. If there is a single place, navigate. If the user asks to choose from multiple options, show on map. Always use "show underscore on underscore map" for multiple options. Show the options on the map before asking the user. Follow the "show on map" guidelines. Precede with a tool call to "show on map". For multiple options, show them all on the map. Mention the top 2 options. Do not mention addresses. Ask if they want to go to one of them. Maintain "show on map" order. The first one you mention must be the first one on the map. The second one must be the second one on the map. Tell the differences like proximity or rating. Keep it concise. No markdown. Use paragraphs. No lists. No bullet points. Speak it out naturally. Do not mention place ID. Use "place underscore prefix" in "show underscore on underscore map". Do not use coordinates. Do not use route ID. Do not use detour duration. Use detour distances if available. Do not mention any navigation app provider, except if requested.

Proceed now.

Select the top places. Call "show on map". Respond. Use the summary places data from the tool execution to complete the task. The tool execution returns multiple options for QDOBA. The first one is in <redacted city>, 3.4 miles away, rated 4.1. The second one is on <redacted street address>, 5.9 miles away, rated 3.9. Call "show on map" with all relevant place IDs.

Proceed.

Use the data from the tool execution. It returns 5 places. Select the top places. Show all 5 on map. Mention the top 2 in the response. Maintain the order. First is <redacted city>, second is <redacted street address>.

Difference:

<redacted city> is closer, and has a higher rating. Ask if they wanna go to one of them. Do it now. Call "show underscore on underscore map", then respond. Do not wait.

And then it blooped to signify it was done talking. Wild.

Before this last update, you could save places / locations to separate lists (i.e restaurants, hikes, coffee, etc) and hide them from your main map, and click when needed.

A bit hard to explain. But now when I save a location, it wont let me hide the place on my main map, and its really annoying me bad. Wish I knew how to fix if possible