Disastrous update – Google Maps Review

Google maps has been one of the most reliable and bug-free app I’ve ever used for years, until the previous update. Since the last update (October 2020) the app started having erratic behavior, inaccurate location, and in the worst cases it shows ghost roads that doesn’t exist. After I set a destination and a specific route, the app arbitrarily changes the route to an alternate one, while driving. That never happened before, the app used to respect the user decision to use one specific route. Also when I want to pan-zoom the map after a route has been set, the app start zooming in arbitrarily to my current location and it’s not allowing me to freely see the route surroundings without taking me back to my current location. Please note that most of the times this happens while the user is driving and cannot be distracted handling a stubborn app. Yesterday I had to drive through an area with no cellular signal, so I set the route in advance. In the middle of nowhere the app arbitrarily changed the route to a ghost road that doesn’t exist (showed a freeway in the middle of the Cascades mountains in Washington State!). I ended up giving up and had to rely in the old fashion paper road map. Someone in the developers team needs to take urgent action regarding these serious problems, less experienced users could have even fatal outcomes from this horrific version update of the app.
Review by Jirs82 on Google Maps.