Google has quietly retired Maps Driving Mode, a once-handy feature for navigation and media controls. Here's what led to its ...

Google supposedly plans to deprecate Maps Driving Mode by February 2024, according to strings discovered in the Google app. Maps Driving Mode was positioned as the alternative to Assistant Driving ...

Google could be planning to kill Driving Mode in Google Maps in early 2024, according to an APK teardown. The teardown suggests that you might need to use Google Assistant for your driving needs ...

Before Google Maps and smartphones, people used printed maps, often from a site called MapQuest. What's happened to the ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Google Maps users who rely on Google’s popular navigation app for most of their drives ...

As we previously spotted and Google later confirmed in a series of deprecations, the Assistant Driving Mode for Google Maps is going away later this month. Update: Only the App Launcher is going away.

Remember MapQuest? To me, that name invokes happy memories of printed-out directions in 2006 and playing navigator for my parents from the backseat. Two printed sheets show a list of MapQuest driving ...

We’ve known for a while Android Auto for phones was supposed to get the ax, and as it turns out, the whole thing is happening as we speak, first with Android 12 and likely with older Android versions ...

In May of 2019, Google Assistant Driving Mode was announced to replace “Android Auto for Phone Screens.” The launch occurred slowly, with the previous experience not going away until this June.