- A Google Maps update brings over a brand new user interface for the real-time location sharing feature of the app.
- The UI is cleaner and more intuitive than before but provides the same functionality.
- Location sharing should be even more comfortable, even to more inexperienced smartphone users.
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You may have been driving less than before in the past few months, because of the novel coronavirus social distancing measures that have been implemented in most countries, but navigation apps are still very useful. Apple Maps, Google Maps, and Waze all came out with new features to help users deal with the health crisis. Some of them included COVID-19 resources, like testing centers and warnings for users. Others made changes to business listings, like highlighting restaurants that deliver during the lockdowns. But the new features coming to navigations apps aren’t all related to the coronavirus. Google Maps made notable changes to the real-time location sharing user interface so that it’s even easier to use.
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Google Maps just overhauled one of its most useful features originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 12 May 2020 at 07:31:20 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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