Google Maps appears to be opening the floodgates on the rollout of Immersive Navigation and support for a speedometer in Android Auto right now, as both features are showing up more broadly.
Immersive Navigation for Google Maps was announced earlier this year as the “biggest” update in years, with more specific directions and more detailed maps while on the go. But it’s been a slow rollout, only starting to appear for some in recent weeks. When we polled 9to5Google readers about the change earlier this month, only a little over 10% of respondents had Immersive Navigation on their devices.
In the couple of weeks since, it appears to be more broadly rolling out. More importantly, our experience seeing the revised experience go live is not on the Google Maps beta, where prior versions appeared to be on beta releases.
We’re seeing Immersive Navigation on Google Maps, and there are also some more public reports popping up. It’s still not a broad rollout, but it’s clear Google is slowly opening up the tap here. There are mutiple factors in play with this one, though, including the region you’re in and, according to some, even the device you’re using.
On Android, the change is immediately obvious as the Gemini icon has replaced Assistant in the top-right corner.
