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And the app has become absolutely atrocious performance-wise. It used to load nearly immediately, but starting ~1.5 years ago I began noticing extreme slowdowns

And the app has become absolutely atrocious performance-wise. It used to load nearly immediately, but starting ~1.5 years ago I began noticing extreme slowdowns. Now it's barely functional for me. Every part of the UI is appallingly unresponsive -- taps that take 5 seconds to register, hitches in animation, etc. From tapping on the icon to being able to get underway (including typing in an address) used to be about five seconds or less. Now it's upwards of thirty. This coming change to their monetization (really? mining our location data isn't enough?) is just going to be the final impetus I need to find some other solution.

jandrese 8y ago
On my old iPhone the performance is still fine, but the volume controls have been broken for ages. Basically you can only change the volume while it is speaking (otherwise it changes the ringer volume). So you have to guess when the phone is speaking and then smash the volume up button in the hopes that you guessed correctly. And of course you have to do this blind because you're driving at the time to trigger the turn prompt. Very annoying.
- fortybillion 8y ago
  Settings -> Sounds & Haptics -> Change With Buttons: OFF. Now the volume controls will only ever change the audio volume and never the ringer volume.
mrep 8y ago
FYI, if you are using an android, you can try google maps go which is designed to run on devices with limited memory [0]. [0]: https://support.google.com/maps/answer/7566112?hl=en https://support.google.com/maps/answer/7566112?hl=en
- degenerate 8y ago
  Thanks, I remember seeing this before but assumed it was a junk copy-cat app. The list of features it doesn't support is exactly the same list of things I don't care about. Nice! I just installed, and it seems to be a minimal app using a chrome wrapper. So it's basically a webpage... I will have to see how its navigation works.
  - ip26 8y ago
    Offline maps has always been a sticking point for me, I consider offline maps to be pretty core functionality for any map app.
hnick 8y ago
I've noticed this too. I think it applies to most of their apps. I've had an issue since early April where a certain gmail account crashes the mail app (one account out of four only - it's not just me with this issue https://support.google.com/mail/thread/3994942 https://support.google.com/mail/thread/3994942). The only fix is to remove all updates and revert to the original version of the app, and the UI experience is so much better. I'd forgotten how fast it was. I might just keep it like this.

jandrese 8y ago

On my old iPhone the performance is still fine, but the volume controls have been broken for ages. Basically you can only change the volume while it is speaking (otherwise it changes the ringer volume). So you have to guess when the phone is speaking and then smash the volume up button in the hopes that you guessed correctly. And of course you have to do this blind because you're driving at the time to trigger the turn prompt. Very annoying.

fortybillion 8y ago
Settings -> Sounds & Haptics -> Change With Buttons: OFF. Now the volume controls will only ever change the audio volume and never the ringer volume.

mrep 8y ago

FYI, if you are using an android, you can try google maps go which is designed to run on devices with limited memory [0]. [0]: https://support.google.com/maps/answer/7566112?hl=en https://support.google.com/maps/answer/7566112?hl=en

degenerate 8y ago
Thanks, I remember seeing this before but assumed it was a junk copy-cat app. The list of features it doesn't support is exactly the same list of things I don't care about. Nice! I just installed, and it seems to be a minimal app using a chrome wrapper. So it's basically a webpage... I will have to see how its navigation works.
- ip26 8y ago
  Offline maps has always been a sticking point for me, I consider offline maps to be pretty core functionality for any map app.

hnick 8y ago

I've noticed this too. I think it applies to most of their apps. I've had an issue since early April where a certain gmail account crashes the mail app (one account out of four only - it's not just me with this issue https://support.google.com/mail/thread/3994942 https://support.google.com/mail/thread/3994942). The only fix is to remove all updates and revert to the original version of the app, and the UI experience is so much better. I'd forgotten how fast it was. I might just keep it like this.