On my old iPhone the performance is still fine, but the volume controls have been broken for ages. Basically you can only change the volume while it is speaking (otherwise it changes the ringer volume). So you have to guess when the phone is speaking and then smash the volume up button in the hopes that you guessed correctly. And of course you have to do this blind because you're driving at the time to trigger the turn prompt. Very annoying.
Re:Google Decides to Monetize Maps
by fortybillion on Thursday April 18, 2019 @02:28PM
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Settings -> Sounds & Haptics -> Change With Buttons: OFF. Now the volume controls will only ever change the audio volume and never the ringer volume.
FYI, if you are using an android, you can try google maps go which is designed to run on devices with limited memory [0].
Re:Google Decides to Monetize Maps
by degenerate on Thursday April 18, 2019 @04:58PM
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Thanks, I remember seeing this before but assumed it was a junk copy-cat app.
The list of features it doesn't support is exactly the same list of things I don't care about. Nice! I just installed, and it seems to be a minimal app using a chrome wrapper. So it's basically a webpage... I will have to see how its navigation works.
Offline maps has always been a sticking point for me, I consider offline maps to be pretty core functionality for any map app.
I've noticed this too. I think it applies to most of their apps. I've had an issue since early April where a certain gmail account crashes the mail app (one account out of four only - it's not just me with this issue https://support.google.com/mail/thread/3994942).
The only fix is to remove all updates and revert to the original version of the app, and the UI experience is so much better. I'd forgotten how fast it was. I might just keep it like this.
This coming change to their monetization (really? mining our location data isn't enough?) is just going to be the final impetus I need to find some other solution.