Google Maps on CarPlay
Years after it debuted on its iOS and Android apps, hazard and delay reporting is now accessible when Google Maps is related to CarPlay.
One of the crucial helpful options in Apple Maps is how rapidly drivers can report that there’s, say, a lane closure, or there’s been an accident. One of the crucial irritating issues is when Apple Maps asks you if the incident continues to be there, and does not fairly offer you sufficient time to seek out out.
Nonetheless, it is a characteristic that has been serving to Apple Maps customers since 2021, and Google Maps on iPhone since 2019. Nonetheless, the identical Google Maps characteristic has been denied iPhone customers, as soon as they connect with CarPlay.
That may appear to be the place it might be most helpful, however for years, drivers have solely been in a position to see different folks’s warnings, not report any themselves. Now in response to 9to5Google, these incident experiences are rolling out to CarPlay customers.
It seems to be nonetheless rolling out, and it is not clear how lengthy it should take to succeed in all customers. Curiously, incident reporting continues to be not being seen when Google Maps is related to Android Auto.
When it’s accessible, drivers get an icon of a hazard signal. Tapping it brings up fast controls for reporting widespread points, starting from a crash or an object on the street, to development or a velocity entice.
The addition of this reporting characteristic comes shortly after the same state of affairs over velocity in Google Maps. Google added a speedometer to Google Maps on Android round 5 years in the past, and has now introduced it to iOS.