Google Maps 4+

Application occasionally requires re-starting to be able to calculate a route, as it reports non-existent routes until it is restarted.
Directions to inaccurate destinations (House numbers) - example: A business name search is accurate, but when I search for the street address of the same business, sometimes the application provides directions to a completely different location, usually along the same street, which means the street number register is incorrect.
Dictation doesn’t work and switches off while spoken to in the middle of a sentence or even half way through uttering a word while no pause was made between the words. Attempted to dictate this review as well but had to type it in manually as the listening Mode always switched off after the first second even without a significant gap between the words.

The lifelong debate of Google Maps vs iPhone’s stock Maps app… this is a battle my partner and I would regularly revisit as two stubborn know it all’s. He preferred Maps, I preferred Google. In March this year, we both upgraded to the latest iPhone 14, and I suppose in a moment of weakness, I decided, “screw it, maybe I’ll just use the normal Maps too. keep him happy each time he needs directions from MY phone 🙄” Downloaded Google Maps again today, using it for the first time in two months. When I was using it previously, I didn’t have any issues. And would defend the app relentlessly whenever my other half would call it names 🥲 But today… I use Google Maps primarily for Google Reviews, not directions, and I was so close to finishing up a big, sweet, sappy review for some really beautiful businesses who have been a great help to us lately, and I felt deserved not just the recognition but the appreciation.. but as I’m typing my final words, the app crashes, closes, and erases my novel of a review (yes all my reviews are this long, don’t take it personally).. Clearly it’s not the end of the world for me to type it again if I can whip this essay out just to explain that small issue, but maybe not all Google Maps users want to type more than they need to, over and over again. Still love Google Maps for my own reasons, but do really hope this is fixed soon to save me rewriting stuff in the future.

I use buses and trams allot and google maps is always 100% accurate with tracking the trams, even if a tram is 1 minute late it will say that or if it’s 17 minutes late it will say that. Always accurate. But the buses are a different story. In the last several months the bus tracking has been awful. It will say a bus is 5 minutes late even though it wasn’t, it will say a 10 minutes bus is early but then it shows up 10 minutes late but the maps say it already showed up 10 minutes ago which it didn’t. But the worst problem is when a bus doesn’t show up at all and this happens SO frequently. Say there’s a bus scheduled for 1pm, then another at 1:20, and another at 1:40, and I’m waiting for the 1:20 one, google maps will say it’s running 8 minutes late, but it just straight up never shows up at all and I end up getting on the 1:40 bus in the end. Where did the 1:20 bus go? Did it even exist in the first place? Did there use to be a bus for that time that is no longer on the time table and google maps has just not updated to the new timetable? If so it NEEDS to be updated. This stuff happens regardless of which bus I’m taking, anywhere in the whole city. I’m sick of missing buses!