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In the past 18 months I've noticed Google Maps' navigation prompts being announced just slightly too late for comfort; e.g. I'm often nearly into an intersectio
by malingo 7y ago
In the past 18 months I've noticed Google Maps' navigation prompts being announced just slightly too late for comfort; e.g. I'm often nearly into an intersection at 30-40 mph when my phone tells me to turn onto the cross street. In that same 18 month timeframe I've moved to a new city so I'm acutely aware of this lag.
I chalk this up to Google Maps' overall bloat and sluggishness on my 2-year-old phone.
- 83457 7y agoWould you happen to be playing audio through Bluetooth? My car has a delay for non-call Bluetooth audio which causes that delay for me and gets really annoying. I will often take the phone off car Bluetooth just for that reason.
- brokenmachine 7y agoOn my phone it doesn't even get the audio prompts out when I'm playing music from the phone through bluetooth. The music just cuts out for a few seconds, but there's no navigation audio. I've turned off navigation prompts for that reason, and just check the "next turn" thing at the top every now and then.
- sciurus 7y agoWhat's even more bizarre is that for me, when using bluetooth audio I get part of the prompts, but other parts are missing. I I remember correctly, it leaves out important words like "left" amd "right". It works fine as soon as I turn off bluetooth.
- toast0 7y agoI get the prompt starting, then the volume on the music is lowered.
- malingo 7y ago> Would you happen to be playing audio through Bluetooth? No, straight from the phone. Last weekend I had a friend in the car using apple maps on a newish iPhone, and every prompt from his phone was around a second earlier than from my phone. At 35 mph, one second is 50 feet (15 meters). That's enough to turn a safe maneuver into an unsafe one.
- lowdose 7y agoApple maps works offline while giving accurate timely route information.
- phs318u 7y agoNot a regular Google user, but you could try downloading the offline map for your city. Might improve responsiveness? https://duckduckgo.com/?q=google+maps+download+offline+maps https://duckduckgo.com/?q=google+maps+download+offline+maps
- badestrand 7y agoFor me at least it doesn't. Even just typing into the search field lags sometimes so that I have to stop a second to let the characters appear. Searching for a restaurant, clicking on it, reading the information can take whole 10 seconds and be so frustrating. I use Google Maps many years already but it just became so slow in the last year or so. Maybe they just don't support non-high end phones anymore.
- srrr 7y agoIt's also slow on fast phones and feels like the ui thread is being blocked by something for several 100s of milliseconds. I stopped using google maps because of this. So annoying.
- timlyo 7y agoDo you know a good alternative?
- srrr 7y agoI don't have a good alternative for points of interest (restaurants, ...), but for maps and routing I use https://www.locusmap.eu https://www.locusmap.eu (with offline Locus Maps, Android only). For car navigation Waze, ironically an app from google, is also nice and has full congestion avoidance.
- ensiferum 7y agoSame experience on a few years old lower end samsung phone. Rubbish.
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- k4lk 7y agoAdd to that when the only directional advice you do get is “Go north-east on <street name>”. It is not very useful if your biking or otherwise not able to see the screen.
- m463 7y agoMight want to try a dedicated GPS. Not too expensive, and they have nice features like talking you into the correct lane. Also, no lag (especially wierd lags) and no interruptions from notifications, phone calls and similar.