Google Maps has seen a lot of UI changes recently that some of united states of america may consider superfluous, or at least not a loftier priority. Simply over the past few days, two really important features popped up in the app — speed trap cameras and speed limits while driving — and at present there's a third addition. When you lot're retrieving driving directions, you lot can - finally - prepare your difference or arrival time and get an estimation of how long your route volition take, via the route options menu.

Setting deviation and inflow times has been available for a long fourth dimension in Maps on the desktop for all modes of navigation, simply on mobile, it was express to public transport. Version 10.8.0 of Maps finally adds the option. You tin can find it under the overflow carte du jour on the pinnacle right when you check any footstep-by-step directions. Information technology'southward long overdue, and been high on the request list of features for the Maps app for years now.

Left: Maps 10.vii.ane.Correct: Maps x.8.0 adds a new "Set up depart & get in time."

Yous can pick any date and time and go an estimation for how long your journey will accept and when you'll arrive (if you lot set the departure) or when yous should get out (if you set the arrival).

At this time, it doesn't seem like you tin add together a reminder or notification, so you won't be pestered to get going when you should. Information technology's as well impossible to keep monitoring the traffic state of affairs, in case an unexpected jam changes your departure time drastically.

If those options are added, this feature would exist a squeamish complement — and even a better replacement — to the Google app's reminders to leave that (sometimes) popular upwards when yous have a calendar event with a set location and you're nevertheless far away.

You can check out the new feature in Google Maps v.x.8.0, which is available in beta on the Play Shop and on APK Mirror.

Thanks: Moshe

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