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Re:Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon u... by patmorgan23 on Thursday February 22, 2024 @03:52PM (#39473055)
I'm pretty sure maps caches the data around you if you've used it somewhat recently. It saves Google bandwidth too.
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Re:Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon u... by jader201 on Thursday February 22, 2024 @04:11PM (#39473314)
I’m not so sure.

Anecdotally, I’ve made it to a remote destination using Maps, then hopped back in the car an hour later (with no signal), and it couldn’t load anything. This seems to happen quite often.

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Re:Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon u... by Scoundreller on Thursday February 22, 2024 @05:22PM (#39474150)
Maps used to expire after 30 days (no idea why), and the auto-updating while on wifi wasn't great unless you were in the app forcing it update. Nowadays they last 365d.
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