Google Maps: an adored function of drivers removed on Android without any explanation

There are choices that we do not explain, and Google has just made it one of the strangest. For some time, MAPS application saw the multimedia controls disappear, a key functionality to manage music with your fingertips while driving. Amazing fact: only the Android version is affected by this evolution.

In addition to being a very well designed and information navigation tool, Google Maps is also very well suited to drivers addicted to music. It is indeed possible to easily manage music during reading, from Spotify, Apple MusicYouTube Music or Deezerthanks to simplified checks.

The opportunity to break, pass music or even access your favorite playlists in a few touches. An essential simplification to prevent the user’s gaze from staying too long outside the main field of vision: the road.

Bad news for users of Android smartphones, it is no longer possible to take advantage of this feature, and more precisely with the Stable 25.28 version and the 25.29 beta. 9TO5GOOGLE explains that multimedia controls “Have disappeared for about a week”whether from the navigation screen or in the application settings.

The most surprising in history is that the version iOS always offers functionality on iPhone. The intention behind is therefore more than strange on the part of Google, which puts sticks in the wheels on its own operating system for smartphones, Android.

It only remains to wait a few weeks to see if it is a bug or a real choice made by the Mountain View firm.