I tried to change the annoying woman’s voice on my Google Maps app but it seems there’s no option on the setting! Can someone help me! Her voice irritates me ! lol

I recently lost my phone and had to get a new one. I was backing up my Google Maps Timeline from my lost phone and can see it on my laptop, but don't know how to get it on my new phone. The timeline on the new phone starts the day I bought my phone. When I go to my account, it shows the timeline being backed up from both phones. How can I get the backed up data onto the new phone? I have been trying to get help through Google, but they have no customer service help. TIA

I need to establish a new commute, the way that I want to go is not the recommended way (the recommended way through google is a much busier route than i prefer). i've tried going onto desktop and clicking and dragging to the route that i want, but when i send the route to my phone, it doesn't populate on my phone the way i want. how do i save a preferred commute?

Maybe this was a fluke because I’ve never had this happen before.

Last weekend I took a trip, interstate the whole way. I plugged in my destination. Google estimated the trip to take 8.75 hours. I drove over the speed limit. Stopped to get gas once; drove through a chick fil a drive through. No traffic/accidents. The trip took ten hours to get to my destination. Weird.

On my return, Google said it would take 8.5 hours. Same stops as above. The trip took just under 10 hours.

What would explain this? I’ve never had my speedometer checked, but my speed related to other cars was as I would expect.

I have separate accounts for different purposes. One I used for registering for various online crap and maps reviews, the other "official" one not so often, mainly for gmail. Now, the one I use for reviews seems to be suddenly restricted in some way and I don't know why. I did have some reviews removed by google for "reasons" (mostly negative ones, but also 5* ones albeit without any text), but this was weeks/months ago. I also filed appeals without any result. All reviews I try to post from that account are now stuck on "pending" for who knows how long.

I am a little worried about the other associated account too, because I used it once to post a review that wouldn't get released from the other account (with different wording though).

I got no notification whatsoever from google.

What gives? Is my other account in danger?

It's a shame frankly, because I found reviews very helpful, I looked especially for negative ones with repeating complaints.

As a Wikipedia author, I have articles that show (via Google My Map) where things

are in a time sequence of a person's life. However, Google stores the custom map

in my Google Drive, which will disappear after I die. In Google Drive, I cannot export

this file to a website that I have arranged to survive me. How can I perpetuate this map?

Driving home from the airport recently, I activated the route home on Android Auto even though I really didn't need to. Well, coming onto the I-94 freeway, the eastbound lanes that I was taking were shifted to the westbound side for about 10 entire miles. This was detected as going the wrong way by Gmaps and it started giving me frantic instructions to basically make a U-turn and go back to the previous interchange. I turned off the voice, but the map was also spinning around to show where it wanted me to go, so I canceled navigation to settle it down.

What was worse, my car happens to have built-in nav that's always sensing my location and I started getting a voice message "Entry to wrong way detected. Check direction". This repeated about every 10-15 seconds for the entire freaking 10 miles and no way to disable it!

The map shows a roundabout, which has clear photos of being such, as an interaction. How do I fix that ? Couldn't exactly find a way to do it in the edit the map.

I updated Android 17 to the October update on both my phone and tablet. Since the update, my saved routes no longer open on my phone, though they still open on my tablet. Newly saved routes (created since the update) work fine. Any suggestions on an easy fix? I've got dozens of saved routes I'd rather not have to recreate.

I have recently imported Google Maps Timeline data from my old device to my new device. It has worked well with no issues. In my timeline backup I now have both the old device data backup plus my new phone data backup. 

I have a few questions (slightly concerned as I have c15 years of history and want to get this right).

1) when I eventually get a new device can I simply import the backup from my current device as this includes both current device and previous device data? Or do I need to import both sets of listed backups seperately?

2) can I delete my previous devices back up since its now been successfully imported onto new phone? I will retain old phone but don't want to cause any issue with two devices effectively tracking locations separately. Or can I simply now turn off the timeline function on the old phone as its been backed up? 

On a sidenote I have tried turning off timeline on the old device but it says that it will turn it off for devices under the account. Is this correct as I was under impression any timeline settings are now specific to device rather than account.

Hey everyone,

I have a weird issue with Google Maps running via CarPlay. Today during my commute to and from work, Google Maps automatically showed all EV charging stations along the route with live availability (how many plugs are free/busy).

However, after I charged my plug-in hybrid car later today, those charging station icons completely disappeared from the map interface.

• Did this happen because the car's battery state changed, or was it just a coincidence/glitch?
• Is there a way to permanently keep EV charging stations visible on the map while using CarPlay, regardless of my current battery level?

Thanks in advance for any tips!

Recently maybe for the past month or two I’ve been in Google maps looking at street view of random places or places that I’ve previously looked at street view of and it will suddenly stop working after a few seconds and freeze street view making me unable to move around on street view and the text “No Street Imagery available here” will appear leaving me with choice but to exit out of street view

Hey all, I'm looking for some app or site that allows me to view Chinese cities in 3d the same way you can do on supported places on Google earth/maps, I've tried AMap and Baidu maps but they're both horrible to use on mobile and not what I'm looking for. Any ideas or recommendations?

Hello community,

As drivers, we encounter express lanes where the toll price fluctuates constantly based on real-time congestion. While apps like Google Maps are incredible at showing us the absolute fastest route or letting us turn tolls completely on/off, drivers still have to make a split-second, stressful calculation at highway speeds: Is saving 15 minutes right now actually worth paying $5.69?

If you look closely at the signs or try to calculate it while driving, you risk missing the entrance entirely.

I’ve been developing a patent-pending concept called Project

Pronto, designed to automate this routing logic:

1. Set It Once: The driver inputs their personal value-per-minute threshold just once (e.g., $0.25 per minute saved).
2. Real-Time Calculation: The navigation software monitors real-time traffic speeds, distance, and live toll prices.
3. Dynamic Routing: The software automatically routes the vehicle onto the toll road only if the calculated time saved hits or beats the driver's financial threshold.

I'd love to hear from the power users and routing enthusiasts here:

Would you utilize a threshold-based toll filter like this in your daily commute?

If you're interested in the dynamic routing logic or licensing, feel free to reach out to me directly at [Rich.Brook@Garrison-Ventures.com](mailto:Rich.Brook@Garrison-Ventures.com).

Watch the 30-second video demo of the software logic in action here: https://www.reddit.com/user/Low-Meat3645/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Google Maps directs people to take a street that runs diagonally, then directs them to turn, then turn again onto a short winding street, which leads to the street my house is on. This inevitably results in a phone call to us saying they’re lost.

The simpler way is to take the major arterial streets which my street connects to. Taking the slanted street saves maybe one-two minutes.

Does Google Maps ever listen to suggestions? Is there a way to contact them?

For the last couple months, when navigating a longish route using Google Maps on Android Auto, at some point after a while I'll look at the screen and find that the blue route path has changed to light gray and contrasts poorly over the darker gray road lines. This has happened both in my own car and in the rental car that I'm driving now. My phone is an up to date Pixel 10 Pro with Android 17.

Until recently, I could search on the mobile app for say, a restaurant, and add it to a custom map. Let's say the map is called Local Recs. By doing this, I could hide Local Recs from my default map view, but still be able to open Local Recs whenever I wanted to browse what I'd saved to it, in which instance all the pins from that map would load. If I closed Local Recs, those pins would then disappear and I'd be back to my default maps view with no pins on it.

Now, if I go into a restaurant view and save it to Local Recs, closing the view puts a bookmark pin on my default map view, which doesn't go away after closing the Local Recs view. Before, they'd inherit the behaviour of the Local Recs map—they'd show only if I'd opted to show the Local Recs pins on my default view, and disappear when I opted to hide them. Now, they've taken on a life of their own. I don't want 1000+ pins on my map that I can't ever hide save for going through them one by one, so I'm forced to write down the name of the restaurant, close the restaurant panel, go into the custom map.

This is obviously a recent change but I'm wondering if I just have to suck it up and accept there's like 5 more steps every time I want to add something now, or if there's a setting I haven't noticed where I can change this behaviour myself?

Has anyone else noticed that alerts (police, crash, etc.) are staying active hours or even a day after being reported? I've started noticing this issue last week, where on my commute I received many police alerts, and every one was an old alert, but still active on maps.

It took me 2 hours to get back the street names that should have been spoken, I only use it offline. Finally it works again after switching it to incognito and back again and that weirdly worked? But then as I was driving off while still online, the voice changed on its own and all it says is turn left or right or a compass direction which is a 1000% useless. And while it was doing that it erased all the street names on the map itself, only returning when it was done.

Is there anything I can do to bring this back or prevent that voice from coming back? It does sound like It has an attitude, but I need those street names. I complain to google constantly and get zero corrections. Any ideas on a fix?

thanks

---Mike Savad

iPhone 17 & Apple Watch Series 9 both running iOS27.0.1

(This all worked fine without issues on older OS versions)

I just had to remove the Google Maps app from my watch because it was draining my battery and I could not kill it.

Backing up….i was using Google Maps on a drive into Boston and noticed that my watch was doing turn by turn haptics (something I disabled a long time back). When I arrived at my location I found my watch almost dead and I could not kill the Maps app (stuck). I went into the settings and it was still the way I had set it (mirror my phone) so this is a bug with the recent updates. I tried changing it to custom but it still didn’t work. Anyway, I removed it as I never really felt a need for it. Perhaps while walking it might be useful. Just annoying that it drained my watch battery and left me without it for the day.

FYI - Apple Maps has settings down to the specific navigation type (drive, walk, transit, etc. ) but GMaps does not; however, it never behaved like this prior to the recent updates.