Google Maps 4+

There is a significant reduction in quality and accuracy with the latest revision.
1) if you want to change directions, you have to completely shut down the app, reenter the app, then select the other destination. If you just press the “x” you are in a never ending loop of directions to the same destination.
2) if you want to refresh directions, again, you have multiple multiple steps. You can’t just go back anymore.
3) the options of directions are significantly more limited. Usually only 1 option now. Rarely is there 2 options. Past version gave you 3 or 4 options. And always included toll & no toll options. Now it only gives you the toll option if you have that selected, or only the no toll option if that’s selected. I always want to compare! Plus the app is too stupid to know when tolls aren’t in affect.
4) it’s just giving horrid directions. Yesterday, I was less than a mile from where I needed to walk to. Yet the stupid app had me going in the opposite direction and walking over 5 miles and over a 10 lane highway four times!! Even when I started walking the correct way, the stupid app kept saying to turn around and go the other much longer and bad way.

Doing instacart in my hometown, there is a neighborhood which is only partly built. Apple Maps does not understand this for whatever reason and takes me to incorrect addresses. A customer recommended google maps, and while google maps does in fact find the correct addresses and navigate me there, the sound of the person sounds somewhat muffled. The music volume goes down so that I can get directions from the voice person from google maps, but it’s hard to hear. My music is at a comfortable loudness and I’d rather not turn that up just to hear the GPS, whose level of muffled mumbling wouldn’t be affected as this isn’t a volume issue. There was one street where the gps didn’t tell me the turn was upcoming until I was so close to it that I would miss it, and I wish the app would tell me the next street I would turn at immediately after the current turn, rather than “in _____feet, turn ___ on ___.” Google maps also doesn’t seem to have speed limits posted on my screen, which I know is a me problem and not a gps problem, but I like to see the speed limit on my screen when I look. Otherwise I mean I got where I needed to go

Every time I click on directions from Google, it asks me, do I want smarter and better and faster maps? Of course I do. So I can click a button and go straight to Google maps, an app I already have. Every time I click this tho, it does not bring me to Google maps. I click open maps, and I am brought to the App Store maps. Even tho I have the app. Then I open maps from the App Store and it has erased the directions I need so I have to go back to Google and then just type it in to Google maps myself. I might as well just use the maps app that comes with the phone bc instead of a short cut it takes me here every time. So every time I click for directions Google brings me to the App Store instead of pulling up the directions in the Google maps app. And then when opening the maps app from here it does not have any addresses saved from the google search I started with. Just not as convenient as the maps app already in my phone honestly. It’s actually wildly inconvenient when I’m running late and forget that the short cut will actually slow me down! Maybe this is more an issue with the directions button on Google not working (since it doesn’t take me to the actual Google maps app), but it brought me here so I’m leaving my review here. Every time it brings me here I leave one star.