Google Maps has seen a lot of UI changes recently that some of us may consider superfluous, or at least not a high priority. But over the by few days, two actually important features popped upwardly in the app — speed trap cameras and speed limits while driving — and now there'due south a third addition. When you lot're retrieving driving directions, you lot can - finally - set your deviation or inflow time and get an estimation of how long your route will have, via the road options card.

Setting difference and arrival times has been available for a long time in Maps on the desktop for all modes of navigation, but on mobile, it was express to public transport. Version x.viii.0 of Maps finally adds the option. You tin can detect it under the overflow menu on the superlative correct when y'all cheque any footstep-past-pace directions. It's long overdue, and been high on the request listing of features for the Maps app for years now.

Left: Maps 10.7.1.Right: Maps 10.8.0 adds a new "Set up depart & arrive time."

Yous can selection whatever date and fourth dimension and get an estimation for how long your journey will take and when you'll go far (if you lot set the difference) or when y'all should get out (if you set the arrival).

At this fourth dimension, it doesn't seem like you lot can add a reminder or notification, and then yous won't be pestered to get going when you should. It's besides incommunicable to go on monitoring the traffic situation, in example an unexpected jam changes your departure time drastically.

If those options are added, this feature would be a nice complement — and even a ameliorate replacement — to the Google app's reminders to leave that (sometimes) popular up when y'all have a agenda event with a ready location and you're still far away.

You lot can bank check out the new feature in Google Maps five.10.8.0, which is available in beta on the Play Shop and on APK Mirror.

Thanks: Moshe

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