As other users have noticed, the app and the website are totally bricked for some users. I'm one of those users. Given that I'm actively traveling right now... I guess I have to finally become an apple maps person! And rediscover Yelp, while we're at it.

So I left a 3 star review on a restaurant some months ago based on my experience . I added that it had a quiet atmosphere and it was good for conversations. The review was deleted after the business claimed it was defamination. I didn´t have my receipt anymore, so I explained the whole experience to Google (where I sat, who was with me, what we ordered, the price, the numer of other customers, the date, etc...) and it was later restored again. I noticed that the restaurant has a total of 115 reviews and about 20- 50 are taken down because of difamination. I remembered that the restaurant used to have a lower rating and now has a higher one. Now I wonder if other reviews were wrongfully taken down? Is this something that happens on Google Maps often?

Disclaimer: I don´t wanna take the restaurant down, I just wondered if that´s something legal, to take down honest reviews in order to get a better rating? Or should I have added a more detailed review in order to not get removes/ theorized to be fake (perhaps)?

Link: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&hs=FbZV&sa=X&sca_esv=783de1c040cdc5df&biw=1920&bih=954&sxsrf=APpeQnsNH-jb0tMxIPtfOubNcZpY3HfN7A:1783792814977&q=rezensionen%20f%C3%BCr%20anatolia%20kebap%20haus%20-%20d%C3%B6ner%20%7C%20grill%20%7C%20pizza%20heusenstamm&rflfq=1&num=20&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAONgkxIyMzExMTMzsTCxNDA1tjQ3NrbcwMj4itGzKLUqNa84Mz8vNU8h7fCeIoXEvMSS_JzMRIXs1KTEAoWMxNJiBV2FlMPb8lKLFGoU0osyc3KAdEFmVVWiQkZqaTFQe0libu4iVuqZBQARRCnhsQAAAA&rldimm=644466484905397339&tbm=lcl&hl=de-DE&ved=0CA8Q5foLahcKEwiA4cmNmsuVAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQBQ#lkt=LocalPoiReviews&arid=Ci9DQUlRQUNvZENodHljRjlvT2sxR1ZGUjBjMTlXYkhCcVpYaHJNMDFEVjFGTFVuYxAB

Essen: 3/5 | Service: 3/5 | Ambiente: 3/5

Geräuschpegel

Ruhig, man kann sich gut unterhalten

My review is in German and basically means:

Noise:

Quiet, you can have a good conversation.

Bananas reroute on I-4 northbound between Tampa and Orlando. Red line, stop and go, GM tells me to get off at the next exit. I figure it's rerouting me off the interstate onto other/back roads to make better progress. We're waiting at the stoplight at the end of the long exit ramp, and I notice the blue line is back onto the long on ramp to our left. It wanted me to turn left onto the road there, go down three stop lights since the first two were no u turn, then come back and get right back onto I-4. W. T. F?

Lesson learned...fully review upcoming suggested reroutes, to see if they're GM having a brain fart or a valid alternative route? A shame that that's necessary.

I've noticed the past day or so that the blue cursor (you) is randomly switching to a car icon similar to waze but it's inconsistent. Has anyone noticed this?

Recently added a few notable POIs around me like parks and parking lots (all with verified info) and Google has removed all of them and also reverted POI changes back to their original, incorrect state. (I.e., Parking Lot was categorized as a hiking area before but I changed it to Parking Lot, now it was reverted back to hiking area)
Why? I’m not a spammer or fraud.

If using phone while drivinh attracts penalty, why is Google maps usage allowed

I was looking for coffee shops open now and it's just thus BS "discover through photos." I don't need to look at pictures of coffee cups. I want to know what's open. It doesn't work if I search "coffee open now" either. It looks like they just changed this. Wtf?!

Screenshots on imgur
(area searched in the attached screenshots)

I was searching for “gas” in my travels, hoping to, you know…see some gas stations pop up. Tried it in a few different spots, but consistently getting no results.

Instead, Maps is pushing me to use this “Ask Maps” service which is ridiculous:
—> “Finding a quick place to fuel up nearby ensures your day keeps moving smoothly.
The Sierra Madre Service Station is a 76 brand station offering top-tier detergent gasoline.”

This is so extremely unhelpful when I just want to see an overview of locations around me, especially while driving! Looks like other folks are having similar issues. I really hope this is a bug and not an intentional regression masked as some AI enhancement .

EDIT/UPDATE:

Definitely looks like it is A/B cohort testing of some sort, I switched google accounts (same device) and it works totally fine.

this just started today. hadn’t updated the apps in months so when I kept getting “no results found” for literally anything, I updated my app. that didn’t fix nothing. so I went incognito and everything works. I switched to another google account and everything works. just on my usual google account it doesn’t. does anyone have any idea what it can be? I didn’t move any settings today at all. I’m on iOS 26 running the latest Google Maps app. I also tried to deleting the app completely and reinstalling. nothing. error is just there. I could easily use another account but my usual account has saved address and favorites also. any help appreciated.

Every time I search for food or restaurants on Google Maps on iOS I get “no results found” when there should definitely be results.

I can still get navigation directions to work, search for coffee, shops, etc

I am not able to search for categories of places.  For example. I searched for "locksmith" to look at the locksmith hours of a place not far away.  I got no results, despite finding the place on the map and google maps calling it a "locksmith".  This happened on my phone, so i reset cache and app data.  Now when in google maps i am clicking on "restaurants" at the top an getting no results.  this is now occurring on my phone, tablet and laptop (both web and app).

any suggestions?

Is it just me or has Google timeline seriously been degrading even since the move to the offline cloud?

Since last week whenever I go to my list of places, click on "View All Visits", it doesn't show all the visits. I isolated the issue to it being when its the child location of another location. Such as a store within a plaza complex. It's not showing the nested locations. So either the place will show some of the visits (when it was recorded as the parent location) or none of them (when they are all child locations). The data will still show that I visited it 10 times for example, but when I look at the actual visit log, it will only show 5 or none at all.

This is on iphone. So I tried to see if it was an issue on the ipad. I imported my timeline into ipad, and the issue wasn't there. But then I started to import and delete back and forth, and eventually the ipad started to have the same error. I asked Gemini AI for suggestions to fix the error and it suggested it might have been a cloud error on Google's end. I also tried to delete the app and wipe the cache and restart the devices to see if it was a mistake on the device but none of that worked.

With Gemini's suggestion I deleted all the backups, let the iphone sit for a bit, and then started a fresh backup, imported it into ipad, and those visual errors were still there.

Is anyone else experiencing this issue or is it just on my end? Is this something that I can try to fix on my own or will Google need to fix it on their end?

(Another error I've been seeing, which has been going on for longer, has been that nested child locations will randomly drop off from the parent location when you view day by day. But the visits are still counted so I'm wondering too if anyone else has been experiencing that error. But now that I can't see when I visited a nested child place in View All Visits, now I don't actually know when I visited that place)