You can finally open Google Maps on your phone while Android Auto is running [U]

Android Auto has lengthy carried a irritating restriction that stops Google Maps from being opened on the linked phone, however it seems that is finally altering.

Update 7/1: After rolling out in February, Google appears to have re-launched help for opening the Maps app on your phone alongside running it on Android Auto. This performance has been in place for a lot of for the previous a number of months, however for others, it disappeared shortly after it first arrived again in February.

This time, the change appears extra widespread and, hopefully, everlasting, as many Android Auto customers on Reddit are reporting that issues are working for them simply throughout the previous few days.

Our authentic protection from February follows.

Some Android Auto customers have seen up to now couple of days that current updates to Google Maps for Android in addition to the Android Auto app have unlocked help for utilizing Maps on telephones while Android Auto is running. The change is an enormous change for the platform, the place Maps on the phone has at all times introduced up an error message saying that the app can’t be opened while Android Auto is running.

That’s clearly been irritating, as Android Auto’s model of Maps is restricted in comparison with the one on the phone. For occasion, the phone app helps exhibits extra knowledge about locations, in addition to user-created lists of places, the place the Android Auto model doesn’t.

This change doesn’t appear to have rolled out notably broadly, however a handful of customers report that Google Maps can now be opened while Android Auto is running in a Reddit thread. The change could also be tied to Google Maps v11.67.0701, and appears to work independently of the Android Auto app model. But regardless of having that model of Maps put in, some nonetheless report seeing the app blocked from opening, suggesting this could be a bug. Given it’s the primary time this has occurred, although, we’re inclined to imagine this is intentional.

In making an attempt to duplicate the performance, we have been in a position to open Maps while Android Auto was running, we have been in a position to take action with none problem on Maps v11.67.0702 on a Pixel 7 Pro.

But, your outcomes could range, so tell us within the feedback beneath for those who’re in a position to open Maps while running Android Auto on your machine.

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