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?
When you type that in, you see the following items in the destination field
(and at the same time, the map zooms into that destination with a red pin).
First you see a back arrow to the left of the destination field.
Then you see the address (truncated with ... at the end to fit).
Then you see an "x" to wipe it out in case you made a mistake.
And lastly you see the microphone icon at the far right.
There are no three dots in this "destination" field that I see.
You can hit "Directions" in the blue box at the bottom.
So maybe you mean to press the "Directions" button?
When you press the blue "Directions" button at the bottom a new screen
comes up with asks "Choose start location" and at the right of that is an
up/down arrow (which just reverses the start and destination locations).
When you tap on "Choose start location" you get the choice of
"Your location" (which is the blue-dot default) or "Choose on map."
When you tap on "Choose start location", my Google Maps asks "Allow Maps to
access this device's location" either "While using the app" or "Only this
time" or "Don't allow" where I always select "Only this time" (even though
I had already turned on all three radios, GPS location + GPS Location +
Wi-Fi scanning + Google Location Accuracy).
Oh. I see now. When I pressed "Only this time" it brought me up again to
the maps with "Your location" at the top and "100 Main Street" below it.
At the bottom, instead of blue "Directions" is a blue "Start" button.
Now I see the three dots at the top right you & Char Jackson spoke of!
When I tap those three dots in the "Start" screen, then I get this
Options
Add stop
Search along route
Set depart or arrive time
Add route to Home screen
Share directions
Share your location
About these results
When I tap the "Add route to Home screen", then it does what was said!
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.