What you must know
- Google Maps has eliminated in-app music playback controls for some Android customers.
- The function that allowed management over streaming companies like YouTube Music and Spotify is nowhere to be seen within the newest app model.
- It is unclear if it is a bug or an intentional elimination because it’s nonetheless out there on the iOS model.
Everyone knows that Google Maps is among the hottest navigation apps, be it on Android telephones and iOS handsets, permitting customers to connect with their favourite music streaming apps like YouTube Music and Spotify for simple entry whereas navigating. The helpful controls gave customers the flexibility to play/pause music and skip or go to earlier tracks. Having the music playback controls whereas navigating is one such comfort that Maps affords, which surprisingly has gone lacking within the newest replace.
9to5Google now finds that the helpful controls, usually discovered underneath the Navigation settings of the Maps app, have seemingly been eliminated, together with the toggle to “Present media playback controls.”
Moreover, the choice to set the music streaming service is lacking from the newest model of the Google Maps app. It seemingly applies to the newest v25.28 model alongside the beta 25.29 model. I couldn’t discover the identical, as I additionally checked on my Galaxy S24 Extremely operating the identical steady model of Google Maps.
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Some Android Central workers additionally noticed that the controls are nonetheless on sure gadgets, whereas lacking from others. It stays unclear whether or not the elimination of the preferred function from Maps was a deliberate determination or an unintended bug. The function, nonetheless, as 9to5 notes, continues to be out there on the newest iOS model of Google Maps.
If it is not a bug as anticipated and is intentional, it’ll observe the latest elimination of Assistant Driving mode. It was eliminated as a part of the Gemini transition, and it additionally featured the media management bar much like what Google Maps affords now.
Nevertheless, with the Assistant Driving mode discontinued, having playback controls on Google Maps turned helpful. Effectively, which may not be the case anymore till the subsequent replace for the app rolls out, hopefully bringing again the favored function.