Google Maps will notify your contacts if you’re going to be late to your destination

Google Maps has received a new version that even though it does not include many new features, it hides them. As already occurs with other applications, explore the contents of the file APK can bring us many new features, and that is what they have discovered in the version 9.26.1, where your code reveals some news when it comes to interact with the application. In it you can see some improvements that we fight to get the red face arriving late for an appointment or meeting for being stuck in a traffic jam.

Rummage between the ins and outs of an APK file often has its reward, and that’s what the guys at XDA Developers have obtained to inquire into the content of the latest version of Google Maps. The code of this new update they have found indications of future functions of the application, some of them very interesting. The first of them is that if we are on track for a destination where we have been with any of our contacts, can let our current location and estimated time of arrival to our destination quickly and easily.

This is known in English by the abbreviation ETA, and it is this word that found in the code of this new version, ready to be implemented when necessary. Seems that this function you can activate through a new button of the application with which we can share the estimated time of arrival at the destination with the contacts, but not only that, but which also would do so automatically, by sending all changes to the route that could force a delay in our arrival. Setting aside of this main novelty, another of the functions which are revealed within the application code and that could come in the future is the possibility of shortcutting the most recurrent destinations, to avoid having to be constantly searching for them on the map and then marking it as a destination.

This is something that could be done in earlier versions, but now Google highlighting so that we can add these shortcuts on the home screen and make the process faster. Another interesting novelty has to do with accessibility, since users with limited mobility may know if there are facilities for example for someone who has access in a wheelchair in a destination. They are undoubtedly interesting news that we will see soon in new updates except change of opinion.

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