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- Google Maps now supports the Now Bar feature on One UI 7 for its navigation feature.
- The feature is available on the Galaxy S25 series, as well as on the Galaxy S24 series with the One UI 7 beta.
iOS 16 introduced Live Activities in 2022 as a new form of ongoing rich notifications. Since then, we’ve seen several Android OEM skins also experiment with some form of active and ongoing rich notifications that differ from your standard notifications. Google announced Live Updates for Android 16, but Samsung beat it to the punch with Now Bar on One UI 7 (based on Android 15). Now, third-party apps are starting to bake in support for these ongoing notifications, and the latest entrant to the party is Google Maps.
As spotted by CID on X, Google Maps v25.05.01.719889437 supports the new Now Bar functionality on One UI 7.