Google Maps Quietly Added This Long-Overdue Feature for Drivers

Google Maps connected iOS softly gained a caller diagnostic precocious that automatically recognizes wherever you've parked your conveyance and saves the determination for you.


Announced connected LinkedIn by Rio Akasaka, Google Maps' elder merchandise manager, the caller diagnostic auto-detects your parked determination adjacent if you don't usage the parking pin function, saves it for up to 48 hours, and past automatically removes it erstwhile you commencement driving again.

Saving your parking spot successful Maps isn't a caller quality successful itself. You could already bash that manually by tapping your determination connected the representation and past choosing Saved Parking. The quality present is that the full process is automated for you.

Akasaka explains what you request to bash to get the diagnostic to work:
Get successful a car with Google Maps and link to your car with USB, Bluetooth oregon CarPlay, and erstwhile you're done driving, there's a small pin waiting for you erstwhile you unfastened Google Maps adjacent – a idiosyncratic parking Maps valet, conscionable for you. When you thrust again, the pin goes away, conscionable similar that.Automatic parking determination redeeming started rolling retired connected iPhone astir a period ago, but since past different diagnostic has gone unrecorded that volition present usage immoderate customized car icons you've acceptable up arsenic a parking icon, alternatively of the default "P" icon. Google added customized car icons to Maps successful 2020, and 8 caller car shapes and colors were added earlier this year.

As things stand, the caller auto-save parking spot diagnostic lone works connected iOS. While a akin parking reminder tin beryllium recovered connected Android, the icon volition lone spell distant if the idiosyncratic manually removes it.

(Via 9to5Google.)
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