Google Maps for iOS to help you find quickest way home

Google Maps users on iOS can now find the fastest ways to get home with a new update. The iOS version is finally getting the feature that has been available for Android for about a month. You can chart a route home and set that as Google Maps shows you traffic data in real-time and inform you of the quickest way you can get home. You can choose to re-route or stick with your original plan. This feature works for countries where navigation is supported.

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Google Maps iOS update adds tips for newbies, in-line route previews

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Google upgrades its Maps app for Apple devices to add mini route previews with traffic overlays, a Tips and Tricks section for beginners, as well as full language support for Arabic and Hebrew.

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Have the best assistant while you’re on the road with Drive Assist. This iOS driver assistant app has everything from a speedometer, trip computer, compass, music player, and integrated with the new Google Maps. It turns the iPhone or iPad into your all-in-one navigation and entertainment system in the car.

Review: Google Maps Navigation app (Beta) on Android

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Google Maps navigation app, which is now free to all Android OS devices (version 1.6 upwards) turns any GPS enabled Android phone into a capable and full featured GPS device that's hinged on Google's own formidable Maps technology. Still very much a Beta product, the application gives us a preview of what we can expect from Google once the kinks are ironed out.

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