Google Maps has turn into a fairly important a part of a lot of our lives. We use it to get to new locations, and even to discover the cities we have referred to as house for years. Google has even continued to improve the app with new AI-powered options that make navigation even simpler. For others, it is an necessary a part of their commute utilizing public transit, and for a small quantity of those that depend on it for that technique, a brand new bug in Google Maps has made it tough to get the instructions they want.
Based on a number of feedback on a Reddit submit on Friday (by way of Android Police), many Google Maps customers on Android have been experiencing points with the app crashing each time they search for transit instructions on their machine. There does not seem like any explicit machine or model of the app that’s inflicting this problem particularly, so far as I can inform, and I wasn’t capable of replicate the bug on any of the three Android units that I examined it on.
Google Maps bug solely impacts public transit
The excellent news, at the least for many Google Maps customers, is that the bug does not appear to have an effect on every other navigation modes. Regardless of the bug being reported by customers within the U.S., the U.Okay., and even Germany, it does not seem like an particularly widespread problem. Nevertheless, customers on each Pixel and Samsung units have skilled the bug, and there does not look to be any recognized resolution for it for the time being.
No quantity of clearing the cache or resetting your machine appears to make a distinction, and even in case you’re working the newest replace of the app, there is no strategy to know in case you’re secure from the bug except you strive looking for transit instructions your self. And since Google Maps has made it even simpler to seek out public transit choices, this bug nerfs the most effective options of the app.
It additionally seems that some Google Maps customers are reporting points with the app on Downdetector, too, and it has even made an look on the Google Maps boards, which ought to hopefully imply Google is engaged on an answer already.
