Gemini in Android Auto's Google Maps is quite useless (my personal case, would like some feedback)
This is a personal rant, ymmv. I use a lot tagged locations. For those who don't know, when you have an address that you go to a lot (a family member's home, your SO's work or whatever), instead of having to use said address, you can tag a location, you set a custom name (grandparents' home, honeys work, etc.), and you'd tell the old Google Assistant to go to x (the tagged location) and it'd recognize it as such and head you to the address. With Gemini, somehow Google doesn't allow you to give it access to tagged locations and to have it know you have to tell it all the addresses so it "remembers". Like, WTF. And the Google Assistant feels lobotomized rn, so it's quite useless. I don't know if anyone feels like me, but it feels like a big downgrade
Posted Aug 1, 2026, 2:30 PM UTC