Google Street View

Thought I'd installed malware, dark patterns to bring up ads, a flickering dialog that couldn't be dismissed. I had to turn phone off. Promptly uninstalled.

Can be annoying at times trying to use it... The interface doesn't always work right... but awesome feature - whether for helping to find places, or eg. checking out houses I used to live in, stalking people😆, help to find a certain address, or whatever.. I appreciate how much work has gone in to making this possible - little cars with cameras mounted on them had to drive down every. single. street. visible on this app. Multiple countries. that's a lot of driving!

Excellent app. However, I am really disappointed that Google is discontinuing this app as I use it to allow my students to capture photo spheres as part of the VR course. There are no equivalent alternatives at the moment.

Not sure why this app is going away, it's a simple and easy way to get 360 photos published on Google maps. Just tried doing it through Google maps and my 360 photo did not get published as a photo sphere. Another app Google is pulling the plug on unnecessarily. Shame.

Frustrating and difficult to use. What happened to the arrows. Why cant I just double press on an area at it shows the view. I cant even figure out how to move down an area once I finally get it in view.

Like with MapMaker in 2016, Google is taking all options away from users that are keen to contribute to make Google Maps a reliable repository of information and data. Not sure what their policy is, but it's really sad to see this app going.

Report problem button -> report inappropriate image. They don't mean the same thing, the ui button is wrong. Touch to move along a road brings up the ui, sometimes. That's wrong and inconsistent. Overall a street view experience with a underdeveloped interface, that means it's almost useless.

Trying to use the app on a pixel 6a is impossible because its broken and google offers any sort of support. the upload button doesn't work because it refuses to pull up the access storage prompt which also can't be enabled in the settings.

No fix, I hope it follows Stadia [Update3]new upgrade still no fix, well done Google devs [Update2]5th app update problem still there [Update1]If I try to take a photo sphere using my phone if I stay still and not rotate after 1st photo segment of photo sphere the app will detect rotation and after a few seconds the next point/segment will arrive and take a photo segment of the same phone heading of the 1st photo segment. Reported this issue 6 times even with video proof. No fix or reply.

I love this app! It was once a function on the regular GOOGLE maps app. I was mad and disappointed one day when I picked up my phone and found that the function was gone. I found it here. My city has more one-way streets than most and this app helps me to recognize my desired location several buildings before my arrival. It has saved me lots of trips around the block after missing driveways. It's a little tricky to learn, but it's well worth it.

Difficult to use. I tend to use this to find businesses I can't remember the name of. The controls are difficult and there doesn't appear to be anything to indicate which direction you're currently pointing. When moving down a road, sometimes the camera randomly changes, so you have to really pay attention. Surprisingly poor quality for an app by Google.

The only thing I use this for is to take 360 photos, as Samsung removed all other ways to do this off their phone series. This app works well-enough for that, though it does leave black boxes in the images at times. Other than that, it's really good. Also, please reconsider geo-tagging sensitive locations and places that probably do not need to be overrun by people.

Really annoying! I don't know if it's a feature or the problem of my device, when I am trying to create a photo sphere, previously it didn't move automatically. It used to show an orange circle and I had to move manually (at my own pace and comfort) to capture the next series of photos. Now I tried many times but the sphere is moving automatically and even if I don't move, if completes the sphere by capturing same scene repeatedly. It's really annoying and disgusting.

I do really like this app, BUT the main reason I have it is that I want to be able to 'visit' locations by viewing VR photos with my VR glasses. This feature used to be available, but now barely any of the images seem to be available in VR; instead, you just get a 360 photo that you can scroll with your finger! It isn't nearly as immersive. Also, there used to be thousands of VR photos that you could view for any location - now there are barely any! Love the museum exhibitions, though :D

In this new version is no longer possible to edit the position and the connections of the uploaded sphere photos. I tried to do this by switching to the previous version but, after a week, the changes are not yet visible on the map and are not visible when I re-open the "Add a connection between two photos" section. I hope that this functionality will be restored soon. I am tracking a mountain path so, due to the possible inaccuracy of the recorded data, it is important for me to fix the position of the single photos and the links between.

This app needs a lot of work. I use it for submitting and editing photospheres and I discover a new bug almost every time I open it. Changes will fall to be saved (the save button won't even show up sometimes). Location markers will fail to load on the map. There is apparently a limit on selecting 25 photos at a time, but it will continue to say all photos are selected. You can't select a subset to edit, so you get a random group. I have to force kill and delete cache nearly every time. Etc.

Overall, a fairly good app. Theres just 2 problems. The main one being that the majority of the areas I search up, havent had an update view for roughly 10-15 years. Some of the street views are literally that old that some roads are virtually non existent. Another problem is that you can only travel a certain distance in street view. So then you have to search up the next part of the road. Please update the areas (particularly smaller towns) more often!

I love exploring the world with this app. additional features that would make me happy: 1) ability to bookmark views that I like so that I can revisit, 2) display details of the location (link to wiki perhaps), 3) location labels like on google map (or maybe I'm dumb and dunno how to set this?) 4) a "back" button, because when I accidentally touched the screen, I couldn't go back to what I was looking at before, and it's impossible to find it again and I have missed it forever.

I am trying to add more photo spheres and connect them manually, but the user interface is very complicated and makes no sense. I have imported the 70 360 photos/ they are for some reason divided into different groups. Why. I want to see all the photos I have uploaded in a list, with file names (so I know how to connect them). Also I have found no solution to connect them before publishing. I am able to publish only group-by-group, and not all at once. In conclusion: the photo sphere contribution feature is very complicated and a total mess UI wise. There should be a desktop solution to make virtual tours because it is very hard on a tablet/phone.

Good: Free Bad: Unintuitive mess of an interface. Takes many many goes to upload a series of photospheres. Conflicting messages and a lack of progress indication makes it unclear whether a batch of uploads has succeeded, failed or is in the middle of taking place or which ones it has done and which ones it has randomly dropped. The shambolic uploading means that they do not arrive in consecutive order, making it a waste of time to start trying to connect them, and they are imperfectly positioned, which is at least manually adjustable. But this has to be done after they are already on public show. There is no option to publish and link photospheres for testing or private viewing, which is stupid as the first time you try it, and every time it messes up the uploading, your efforts are low-grade public content before you have even had a chance to edit them or improve your technique. The deal you make is that in return for the free app your pictures become content for Google, which is acceptable if free is the highest price you are willing to pay, but at least give us a chance to make the content as good as it can be before going live with it.