Along with providing probably the most optimum route to your vacation spot, Google Maps shows alternate routes in actual time whereas driving that are marginally slower or quicker than your present route. These alternate routes may be notably useful in instances the place you encounter visitors or a roadblock in your present route. Nevertheless, when you’ve used Google Maps to navigate of late, you might have seen that the app has stopped providing alternate route suggestions.

In accordance with a number of consumer studies on Reddit and Google’s community forums (through 9to5Google), Google Maps has stopped exhibiting alternate routes whereas driving. The difficulty appears to have began someday in the previous few weeks and impacts Google Maps customers on Android and Android Auto. Not one of the traditional fixes, like restarting the app, clearing its cache, or rebooting the telephone, appear to resolve the problem.

Though Google has but to acknowledge the problem or spotlight the underlying trigger, it’s imagined to be the results of a bug launched in a current app or server-side replace. It’s not instantly clear if the problem is widespread, as Stephen Schenck from our crew has confirmed seeing alternate route suggestions whereas driving as lately as final weekend. In the intervening time, we will’t verify whether or not the issue additionally impacts Google Maps on iOS and Apple CarPlay.

We count on Google to make clear the matter in the approaching days, and we’ll replace this publish as quickly as we now have extra particulars. Till then, you possibly can drop a remark under when you’ve lately encountered this concern in your telephone.