Voila! *One-tap shortcuts to any destination you frequent.*
Voila! *One-tap shortcuts to any destination you frequent.*
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How to make a one-tap Google Maps homescreen shortcut to any location >(without ever needing any login account on the Google servers)
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Isn't that functionality already built in?
If I understand what you're doing, I
open Google Maps, enter the destination, (starting location defaults to "Your location", which is perfect), then under the 3 dots there's an option called "Add route to home screen." That's it.
When I want to actually navigate to that
destination, it's a single click to launch Google maps in Nav mode. No third party apps required.
Or, as Alan suggested, just speak the destination if you know it.
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Isn't that functionality already built in?
If I understand what you're doing, I
open Google Maps, enter the destination, (starting location defaults to "Your
location", which is perfect), then under the 3 dots there's an option called >> "Add route to home screen." That's it.
That works also.
On 24/9/2023, Wally J wrote:
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Isn't that functionality already built in? If I understand what
you're doing, I open Google Maps, enter the destination, (starting
location defaults to "Your location", which is perfect), then under
the 3 dots there's an option called "Add route to home screen."
That's it.
That works also.
Not so fast. I tried this for an hour. Until I gave up on the Google Maps three dots approach (as simple as it seemed to be described above).
It took that long to figure out that the three dots don't always exist.
You don't get those three dots if you don't have a Google account.
At least I didn't get those three dots no matter how hard I tried.
Clicking around I found this was my situation.
1. Start Google Maps (with all three radios turned on that it needs).
GPS Location + Wi-Fi scanning + Google Location Accuracy
2. Search for "100 Main Street, Houston, Texas" and you will see
a "Directions" button in blue at the bottom but no three dots anywhere.
3. When you tap that big blue "Directions" button, you'll get a request
to "Choose start location" but no three dots anywhere.
4. If you click around though, you can tap the circle-person default
avatar at the top right and then you'll see these six options
Your profile
Your Timeline
Location sharing
Offline maps
Settings
Help & feedback
5. If you tap "Location sharing" then you do get the three dots at
the top right of the screen. Tapping the three dots gets you a
four-part menu.
Blocked users
Help
Send feedback
Add to Home screen
6. But when I added the icon to the home screen, tapping it brings
me to the "Location sharing" page which won't work without
a Google login.
So I'm not sure how to consistently get the three dots you speak of
because when I run a search, the microphone icon is in the place where
you'd expect the three dots to be.
And if you back up, you get the circle-person default avatar at the
top right - but there are no three dots anywhere to be found.
</CJ>Isn't that functionality already built in? If I understand what
you're doing, I open Google Maps, enter the destination, (starting
location defaults to "Your location", which is perfect), then under
the 3 dots there's an option called "Add route to home screen."
That's it.
Unless you have left out some step you did, you didn't give a
destination! Without a destination, there can't be a route (to a destination). Without a route, there obviously can't be a "Add route to
Home screen" function.
On 25/9/2023, Frank Slootweg wrote:
Unless you have left out some step you did, you didn't give a destination! Without a destination, there can't be a route (to a destination). Without a route, there obviously can't be a "Add route to Home screen" function.
Isn't "100 Main Street Houston Texas" the destination?
Thank you for explaining that it's not the "Directions" page that has the three dots but the "Start" page that has those important three dots!
This is nice because it means that a map shortcut (for example, to the
local emergency room) can be put on everyone's phone in the house) without having to install any extra software to create that directions shortcut.
It will only work with Google Maps but that's my only map program anyway.
I.e. without an origin or a destination, there is no route, so no "Add
Home screen" function.
You found the same in your experiments: As soon as both the start
location and the destination had been set, the three-vertical-dots icon appears and you can select ""Add route to Home screen" from that menu.
Voila! *One-tap shortcuts to any destination you frequent.*
<https://i.postimg.cc/5NVLS0Dv/shortcut-home.jpg>
How to make a one-tap Google Maps homescreen shortcut to any location >>(without ever needing any login account on the Google servers)
Illustration: <https://i.postimg.cc/5NVLS0Dv/shortcut-home.jpg>
Isn't that functionality already built in? If I understand what you're doing, I
open Google Maps, enter the destination, (starting location defaults to "Your location", which is perfect), then under the 3 dots there's an option called "Add route to home screen." That's it. When I want to actually navigate to that
destination, it's a single click to launch Google maps in Nav mode. No third party apps required.
On 25/9/2023, Frank Slootweg wrote:
I.e. without an origin or a destination, there is no route, so no "Add Home screen" function.
You found the same in your experiments: As soon as both the start location and the destination had been set, the three-vertical-dots icon appears and you can select ""Add route to Home screen" from that menu.
I see now that you need a completed route and not just a one-ended address.
Since I tend to operate with all the permissions turned off, I found you
can keep the GPS + Wi-Fi scanning + Precise location switches off and still be able to "Add route to Home screen" if you arbitrarily choose a location
on the Google map for the starting point after you type in the destination.
In that situation of choosing the starting point for the route on the map, you don't get a blue "Start" button but a blue "Preview" button instead.
With either the "Start" or "Preview" button you get the three dots that
leads to the "Add route to Home screen" menu you & Char Jackson spoke of.
I just added my dentist where I did an images.google.com to get icons for dentistry so that I don't have to read the wording below the route icon.
Do you think these home screen shortcuts can be copied to my wife's phone?
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