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| Google has decided to stop the Street View app as soon as possible |
Today, Google spokeswoman Madison Gouveia confirmed in a statement to The Verge that the company will remove the standalone app (Street View) from the App Store in the coming weeks and will stop supporting the app in the March 2023 program.
Yesterday 9to5Google team discovered this in the APK file of the latest version of the app (2.0.0.484371618) in the Google Play Store, showing some notifications that Google made to announce that the app has stopped working. But these notifications have not appeared in the app yet.
In these notifications, Google has informed Street View app users that it will stop working and end support on March 21, 2023.
The dedicated Street View app - for Android or iOS phones - gives you a 360-degree view of almost any street or landmark in the world, perfect for figuring out your next travel destination or just seeing each other again as you see the world explore. family.
The app also allows its users to submit 360-degree images, or “panoramic images” as Google calls them, to improve Street View.
But Street View will still be the main function of Google Maps, so you can still explore all the places that Google has saved with your camera.
You can still add panoramic photos to the map and publish 360-degree videos through the web app ( Street View Studio ). All this makes a separate Street View app somewhat redundant.
But with the app (Stream View) closed, one of those features will disappear entirely, Photo Path, a feature Google first introduced in the app last year and designed to be available to almost anyone with a smartphone. 2D images of roads or trails that have not been recorded. Unlike all the other features in the app, there is no alternative to this feature in the web app or Google Maps app.
in the end of the day ; The app will stop working next March and will head into the growing graveyard of discontinued products and services at Google, which also includes: Android Things, Neighborly, YouTube Go, Google Plus, Google Hire, Expedition, etc.