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Google Maps is a web mapping service and an Android app.

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In these two images, I measure the distance Washington D.C., the US–Kyiv, Ukraine. As clearly seen, Google Maps on the Android phone does not show a correct geodesic. For example, the true geodesic ...
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When I use my Samsung Galaxy A53 and navigate using the Google Maps app, it is quite disturbing that the screen darkens after I do not touch it for several seconds. How can I tell Android to keep the ...
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TL;DR: With two Android phones, how do I get arrival & departure location sharing notifications on my backup device, instead of the primary device? I have a primary and a backup Android phone. ...
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There is an old thread with same question. I tried those solutions but they dont work with current Android 15 release. When I look at running apps I can close all of them, except Google Maps. Even ...
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Unfortunately, I lost my phone yesterday, it was Samsung S24 Ultra phone. I had enabled all the safety features on the device for both Google (Find Device) and Samsung's own tracking service. However, ...
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Google Maps keeps going back to their "Default" view, however I would like to use the satellite as default. That question was also shared on Google Maps Help, but Google Community locked the ...
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I recently received an email from Google telling me to migrate my timeline to be on-device. When I clicked the "review settings" option from the email, it opened my google maps app. After ...
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Does the Google Maps timeline show the specific location you visited, the time and date, and how long you stayed?
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Location history is filling in places traveled all by itself showing this trip was taken here and I was at home all day or shows I was at a place overnight when I wasn't even there at all which was 4 ...
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For many years I've been vexed by a secondary, ghostly arrow on Google Maps, as seen below. There's me - the blue arrow in a white circle - and a few steps ahead of me on my route, is a white arrow in ...
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After a screen orientation change, Google maps misplaced its "picture-in-picture" window to mostly off screen, and I'm unable to drag it back to a position where it's fully visible. ...
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I'm using Google Maps on my Pixel 8a to while I'm driving and it works nicely. But the map interface is all messed up when I'm using it in walking mode. If I let the app adjust the perspective itself, ...
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Sometimes when I receive notifications from the Spark email app or Google Maps, the notification text will be the app name repeated twice. For example, notifications from Spark will read "Spark ...
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Google maps always used to speak audible instructions like "stay on the 16 for 4 stops" and "get off at Dam Square". It's suddenly stopped doing that as of late. The text ...
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When someone is sharing their location using Google Maps with me, normally, I should receive a push notification. But for years now, I don't receive any notification anymore, no matter the phone (...
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