Google Maps. GREAT NEW Assistant-based features

Google Maps. A number of great new Google Assistant-based features have been rolled out to users today, and here are the big changes they bring.

Google Maps Assistant

Google Maps. The company's online map platform announced a few months ago a series of very interesting new functions based on the assistant, and now here they are launched for users all over the world. We are talking about new functions for Google Maps that are based on the well-known Google Assistant, they are currently available exclusively for the Android platform, because there the assistant has the most extensive integration.

Google Maps. Starting today, Google Assistant can be activated from the online map platform to control phones, or to make various searches on the Internet, without closing this application. When a search is made using Google Assistant in Google Maps, the bottom part of the application, where the menu with control options is present, will be covered by the information displayed by the assistant, so you remain with the map clearly visible to navigate without problems.

Google Maps. GREAT NEW Assistant-based features

Google Maps Assistant functions

Google Maps. The functionality implemented based on Google Assistant is designed not to affect the navigation experience using the maps available in the platform, so everything is done without displaying anything on the screen. Including phone calls can be initiated from Google Maps, with Google Assistant, without displaying the dialer at any time, playing music, writing messages, and many others can be done very easily, without leaving the navigation application at any time .

Google Maps. You can see in the image above what this new functionality looks like, and how useful the implementation of Google Assistant is for the navigation application, the people from Google having a great idea, which they implemented perfectly. Considering that Google Maps has this new functionality launched only today for the whole world, it is hard to say how long it might take until it will be available for Android users all over the world.