Google Maps App - Home and Work gone

[Jader1973]

I got in the car this morning and went to set the destination in Google Maps as Work (which was a saved location) - it wasn’t showing. Home had gone too.

Sometimes it seems to forget the saved locations so I unplugged the phone (iPhone) and went to put them back in again - I looks like I can’t…saved locations now seems to require signing in from a Google account:



Have they really removed the saved locations feature and put it behind an account, or am I missing something?

[Corso Marche]

I've always used my account with Google Maps. But I pay for Google One and the services included.
Even years ago when I ran iPhones and android phones side by side it was signed in to make full use of the services.

I hadn't actually realised it was possible to use G Maps on a mobile device without an account!

So if you want to continue using G Maps I'd say the likelihood is yes - use an account.
Or buy one of the paid for navigation apps. But you'll have to create an account for those too. That's the world we've found ourselves in.

[Ham_and_Jam]

Jader1973 said:

I got in the car this morning and went to set the destination in Google Maps as Work (which was a saved location) - it wasn’t showing. Home had gone too.

Sometimes it seems to forget the saved locations so I unplugged the phone (iPhone) and went to put them back in again - I looks like I can’t…saved locations now seems to require signing in from a Google account:



Have they really removed the saved locations feature and put it behind an account, or am I missing something?

Just checked mine and both Home and Work locations are saved as normal, however I am signed in my Google account.

If you are not ‘signed in’, then I assume it can only know you from saved cookies. Have you cleared them, or an Google update removed them?

Personally I would just create a Google account.

[Brainpox]

If you genuinely don’t have an account then I’m surprised it’s worked this long honestly. Google makes money from tracking you

[Jader1973]

There was always the ability to set Home and Work without having an account. I haven’t changed anything so it must have been an update that removed the “free” feature.

I guess I’ll just take 10s to enter them each time (I use it to gauge the traffic to/from work), until Google decide that even using the app requires an account

[Ham_and_Jam]

Jader1973 said:

There was always the ability to set Home and Work without having an account. I haven’t changed anything so it must have been an update that removed the “free” feature.

I guess I’ll just take 10s to enter them each time (I use it to gauge the traffic to/from work), until Google decide that even using the app requires an account

Why not create an account?

[EmailAddress]

Jader1973 said:

There was always the ability to set Home and Work without having an account. I haven’t changed anything so it must have been an update that removed the “free” feature.

I guess I’ll just take 10s to enter them each time (I use it to gauge the traffic to/from work), until Google decide that even using the app requires an account

Waze is better for this task.

Regarding Google though, if they had the gumption to map the world, the least you can do is not complain about having to sign in.

[Jader1973]

Ham_and_Jam said:

Why not create an account?

Why should I?

They’ve deleted a free feature to force people to create accounts so they can harvest data.

fk ‘em.

[EmailAddress]

Then stop whining about it.

[thebraketester]

Tap the search bar at the top... Home and Work are there. That's how I use it anyway.

[Jader1973]

EmailAddress said:

Then stop whining about it.

Sorry, I didn’t realise the Google fan club were in.

[EmailAddress]

Jader1973 said:

EmailAddress said:

Then stop whining about it.

Sorry, I didn’t realise the Google fan club were in.

You had a free thing for a while that cost the company a gazillion dollars to create.

You had fair use of the free thing.

Then when they eventually try to get a particular return on investment that is such a trivial non-issue for you, you're up in arms about it

You've been offered alternatives.

Maybe buy a map /s.

It's not like they bait and switched you.

There are a million ways to complain about Google, and this doesn't scratch the surface.

You could probably still retain your address by using the Desktop version.

Why complain about a free lunch.

[Ham_and_Jam]

Jader1973 said:

Why should I?

They’ve deleted a free feature to force people to create accounts so they can harvest data.

fk ‘em.

They already knew where your home and work was, which routes you took and when.

Creating a spoof account with no other data attached to it other than a random user name and email is hardly going to make a difference. You still get your free lunch.

[some bloke]

I've never set them, because I know where I live and where I work.

[EmailAddress]

some bloke said:

I've never set them, because I know where I live and where I work.

Stupid comment.

OP clearly states he does it for traffic updates.

(We could argue about them necessity and efficiency of that)

[Shaoxter]

Ham_and_Jam said:

Jader1973 said:

There was always the ability to set Home and Work without having an account. I haven’t changed anything so it must have been an update that removed the “free” feature.

I guess I’ll just take 10s to enter them each time (I use it to gauge the traffic to/from work), until Google decide that even using the app requires an account

Why not create an account?

So it doesn't track any nefarious activities which your wife might not like

[MesoForm]

Swap to Apple Maps? You're already signed in on your phone.

[geeks]

MesoForm said:

Swap to Apple Maps? You're already signed in on your phone.

You'd be surprised I discovered a number of people on here the other day not using Apple IDs and iCloud etc with an iPhone.....

[Ham_and_Jam]

geeks said:

You'd be surprised I discovered a number of people on here the other day not using Apple IDs and iCloud etc with an iPhone.....

Apple ID is pretty much a requirement, iCloud isn’t. Especially if you don’t have other Apple devices you want to share stuff with.