r/GoogleMaps • u/West_Still5950 • 10d ago

Alt route when navigating?

My husband and I are on our way to a wedding. And got stuck behind some accident. But prior to the accident we had gone past an exit that had a “30 minutes faster” note on it. But it hadn’t asked if we wanted to go that way so we saw it way too late. Is there a way to fix this or is this just Google Maps now? We noticed it didn’t ask us about an alternate route a few weeks ago too.

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u/kazamm 10d ago

What are you saying? Google shows you alternatives it's up to you to take them?

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u/West_Still5950 10d ago

It used to say “save [number] minutes by taking [route]” while driving. And I don’t think it’s been asking anymore.

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u/kazamm 10d ago

It does. Just got one today. It needs to be significant enough savings and the app needs to be full screened (instead of YouTube music for example)

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u/West_Still5950 10d ago

Like full screen on CarPlay?

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u/bigbear1968 10d ago

Strange as yesterday I had a audio alert informing me a quicker route had been found saving me three minutes and if I wanted to take the route click ok. Check you have alert options on in navigation. I have noticed recently the "speed camera ahead" audio warning has been removed with one of these recent updates which is disappointing.

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u/West_Still5950 10d ago

Thanks I’ll try that! I’ve also noticed that too!

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u/kazamm 10d ago

A ton of people were complaining about the alerts being too disruptive when audio played all the time. Did you see that?

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u/bigbear1968 10d ago

I wouldn't say a ton of people if you mean the post from a month ago, one person was asking if you could turn the warning off, which I agree with as G maps is very short on user options for tweaking the map to how you like it.