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GPS navigation apps
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2019–2025), in 5 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with GPS navigation apps, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 5 complaints
- Must dig into settings to toggle GPS audio, with no fewer-interruptions option2025-10-07
- After a rewrite the app lost features it used to have and became very slow2022-02-14
- Inconsistent buttons and swipes, and confirmation dialogs appearing one after another while driving2019-12-23
- Inconsistent, confusing buttons and swipes, with dialogs popping up unexpectedly while driving2019-10-25
- Directions are given too late and at equal urgency, leaving no time to consider or recover2019-06-27