Changes to the Google Maps UI should make you feel less cut off from navigating your journey

Changes to the Google Maps UI should make you feel less cut off from navigating your journey،

In a bid to make Google Maps less cluttered, some changes are being made by Google to the app's UI on Android now and iOS later, so to speak. After all, when you're driving down the road and you're at a red light, you want to be able to quickly glance at the Maps screen without other things taking up your time or distracting you. A change can be spotted after entering the name of a location you want to get directions to.

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Currently, the screen is split in two, with the upper half showing a map of the area surrounding the location you entered. Below that, the other half of the screen has photos of the location you entered and this sheet goes edge to edge. edge. With the new UI, the sheet in the bottom half of the app is no longer full screen and is slightly narrower at the top; there is another leaf behind. When you pull the top sheet up, with the updated UI you will be able to view a small section of the map at the top of the screen.

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It may not be a big deal, but with the change it doesn't feel completely cut off from the navigation map. And this is also the case for public transport since this sheet is no longer edge to edge at the top and no longer occupies the entire screen either.

CURRENT

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9to5Google reports seeing the new UI on one version of Google Maps (version 11.113.x), but this appears to be more of an A/B test since my Pixel 6 Pro is running Google Maps version 11.115.x on Android 14 QPR2 Beta 3.2 and has not yet received the new UI. The new look should also eventually make its way to the iOS version of Google Maps, although it didn't arrive on my iPhone 15 Pro Max running iOS 17.3.

REDESIGN

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Some of you Google Maps users will consider this a nothing burger, while others will bite off the UI changes like it's a quarter-pound sirloin burger .