Not sure who is affected exactly as I didn’t see anyone else reporting it. The bug happens on my 2 Samsung Android devices running Google Maps 10.46.1 on Android 9 and 10 (kernel 4.9.112 and 4.14.117 respectively). The 2 bugs started this week for sure since I use the app very often.
#1
Whenever I try to update a POI location, I go the normal route (Suggest an edit, change name or other detail, update location on map). Clicking on “update location on map” goes nowhere at all. The app is completely unresponsive. More: using the cross on the top left is also unresponsive. Using the Android back feature allows to exit the “suggest an edit”. At this point the only way for me to edit a location is to go on my desktop computer.
#2
POI addition does not upload photos anymore. Normal behavior during POI addition is that after selecting the photos, they do appear within 5 seconds at the bottom of the addition screen before submission. Now they don’t appear anymore. If I choose “add photos” again, it shows me the photo selection screen with the pictures I already selected “pre-selected”, so the app knows I selected the pictures but it does not attach them to the submission. So once I click the submit, of course Google Maps says “You should add some pictures” and I say “yes, please let me”, once again the picture selection screen shows my photos preselected, but they are like a ghost to the Google Maps app and they never upload.
Current workaround: post the pictures after the POI has been accepted which is a bit risky since I dont know how much pictures are taken into account in the addition decision.
No point in sharing screenshots of the app since no error appears in either case. Just app misbehaving as per my description.
Not sure who can help. Hopefully someone knows how to bring it to the proper developers.
Thanks!
PS: In order to have a nice picture for my bug report I asked Google photos to find me some bugs in my photo collection and these 2 came up, I thought they’d make a perfect illustration of intertwined bugs
I searched “Google Photos” not “Google Images” :_) With so many services with names so close to each other, it’s quite often easy to mix things up with Google… So my picture, my copyright (I already had Google take down some of my post where I was merely quoting abstracts of a much larger article, which I was considering “fair use”, so I don’t bring anything from outside anymore since the censorship is strict around here…).
Screenshot #2 shows the attempt the leave the Suggest an edit screen not working when pushing the cross on the top left (you can see the cross remains greyed):
Hello @Herve_Andrieu
I attempted editing “Verano at Delray”. The arrow turns dark blue the moment I change something.
Also, I can move the pin.
The other two errors I can’t replicate as I don’t have any new place to add.
Thus, in my opinion, the bug is related to specific devices.
Nevertheless, the solutions suggested were the routine ones, and there is nothing odd in that. Once, I did even a factory reset when I couldn’t resolve a nagging problem.
Trust, you are not using any background services like VPN, Ad-blockers, Anti Virus, Auto cleanup apps, DNS routers etc. Otherwise, disabling these can also make a difference.
