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Google Maps and Waze get new route guidance and alerts

Google has announced updates for both its Google Maps and Waze apps on iOS, including recommending car parks, and alerting users to different types of speed cameras.

A smartphone displays a map of London with directions, highlighted routes, and a search bar at the top.
Google is updating both Google Maps (pictured) and Waze for iOS

More than ten years after it acquired mapping firm Waze, Google is still updating both it and its own Google Maps as separate apps. They’re also being updated both for Android and iOS, and the new features will take some months to roll out over both.

Google’s blog about the new features headlines the addition of incident reporting on Google Maps on iOS and Android, plus specifically CarPlay and Android Auto. The existence of the feature was previously spotted in CarPlay, where it had long been missing.

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