Google Maps users on iPhone have been left unable to access its trademark Street View feature
A frustrating new bug lurking inside Google Maps on iPhone appears to be prevent some users from accessing one of the turn-by-turn navigation software's best features – Street View. The issue appears to have been introduced in the latest update to the iOS version of Google Maps, v. 3.8.3, and may be affecting iPhone 4s and iPod touches running iOS 6.1 and 6.2, according to Reddit user Nicolas. He also reveals that AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile have all hit the bug in their current versions of iOS. Stephen Kohn, an software engineer at Google, confirmed that it was the company that released v.3.8.3 of the premium mobile mapping platform. With iOS8 noticeably being the least part of history OSa5, the company is no doubt aware that users who take advantage of its flagship mapping application would like the feature to work on older non-jailbroken devices. Kohn went on to say that a fix would be released within the next week on Cupertino supercomputer. He said: "We're working on this. It's a good fix, but to have the police be there on a Sunday morning to pick up the missing pieces is frustrating".
Nicolas has been compiling API requests and social tweets about the issue, writing: "At first I was getting 'no means no' consistently appearing as 'yes'." Other users feature getting the same results as having a previous trip taken up in a list of examples on creating you own 360 Shapeways route.Using hyperlinking it was easy to find specific instances of Street View not working on iPhones.
Twitter user Steve Qi wrote "The new called Street View in the latest update. I believe it must be the "Calendar application"T- mobile please help". Another user, Kim Bartagnando added "Hmm. Couldn't download (Google) Maps about a month ago and then finally got it this past weekend. Once done I loaded it and thought I was ready to take a stroll. It booted. Then Google Maps crashed and I lost all ability to view farther than 32 feet in either direction for 30 seconds–the screen went white.p sucks". Weight categories MagicIT posted on Twitter that the recording of the first flight seemed to help relieving the described "flaw".
Provided to TNW by the Reddit community user, streetviewobserver
So far, few have discovered the issue which is affecting as yet one in 100 phones. That being said, getting the missing Street View feature to work on older devices could either be a problem with the software or with Apple's targeting capabilities which are often troublesome for third-party software on iOS. Other aspects of Safari 7 and iOS 6 devices could also be entirely to blame with its inability
A frustrating new bug lurking inside Google Maps on iPhone appears to be prevent some users from accessing one of the turn-by-turn navigation software's best features – Street View. The issue appears to have been introduced in the latest update to the iOS version of Google Maps, v. 3.8.3, and may be affecting iPhone 4s and iPod touches running iOS 6.1 and 6.2, according to Reddit user Nicolas. He also reveals that AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile have all hit the bug in their current versions of iOS. Stephen Kohn, an software engineer at Google, confirmed that it was the company that released v.3.8.3 of the premium mobile mapping platform. With iOS8 noticeably being the least part of history OSa5, the company is no doubt aware that users who take advantage of its flagship mapping application would like the feature to work on older non-jailbroken devices. Kohn went on to say that a fix would be released within the next week on Cupertino supercomputer. He said: "We're working on this. It's a good fix, but to have the police be there on a Sunday morning to pick up the missing pieces is frustrating".
Nicolas has been compiling API requests and social tweets about the issue, writing: "At first I was getting 'no means no' consistently appearing as 'yes'." Other users feature getting the same results as having a previous trip taken up in a list of examples on creating you own 360 Shapeways route.Using hyperlinking it was easy to find specific instances of Street View not working on iPhones.
Twitter user Steve Qi wrote "The new called Street View in the latest update. I believe it must be the "Calendar application"T- mobile please help". Another user, Kim Bartagnando added "Hmm. Couldn't download (Google) Maps about a month ago and then finally got it this past weekend. Once done I loaded it and thought I was ready to take a stroll. It booted. Then Google Maps crashed and I lost all ability to view farther than 32 feet in either direction for 30 seconds–the screen went white.p sucks". Weight categories MagicIT posted on Twitter that the recording of the first flight seemed to help relieving the described "flaw".
Provided to TNW by the Reddit community user, streetviewobserver
So far, few have discovered the issue which is affecting as yet one in 100 phones. That being said, getting the missing Street View feature to work on older devices could either be a problem with the software or with Apple's targeting capabilities which are often troublesome for third-party software on iOS. Other aspects of Safari 7 and iOS 6 devices could also be entirely to blame with its inability
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