The company's done little to upgrade the experience over the last year aside from adding a home screen shortcut, it's still as lackluster as ever. It seems likely that most of the interactions with Driving Mode will come from people already starting in Maps, since you don't need to go to the Assistant-flavored home screen to still get the handy quick actions UI along the bottom of your screen.Īs for whether this says something about the future of Google's current car-friendly UI, it remains to be seen. It makes this home screen even less useful than it was previously, but considering Driving Mode's home screen already barely needed to exist for anyone with navigation active, maybe it doesn't matter. Now, when it's time to leave for the event, all you need to do is open your calendar reminder, select the route link in the location field, and you're on your way.Instead, Google's keeping the 'Where to?' search bar, which presents some quick voice actions as well as the ability to search directly within Maps. It also includes a link to open the route directly in Google Maps. This will embed the entire set of directions in text format, turn-by-turn.Open Calendar, create an event on the day you're going, and paste the share link into the Add location field inside Google Calendar.This will call up a list of apps select Copy to clipboard.Tap the three-dot menu in the upper-right corner, then select Share directions from the menu.This is most convenient when you first get an invite from a friend or you're buying tickets and already on the website that has the address. To save time, when you're planning for an event, open Google Maps on your phone and pull up the event's address. When you have a trip or event to get to, you definitely don't want to waste time sitting in your driveway trying to find the correct address.

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