Google Maps and YouTube Music just made some commutes a little better

Google Maps has featured music controls for Spotify, Apple Music, and Google Play since 2018, but its most important music service was missing — until now. 

In the latest version of Maps for Android (version 10.43.2), you can open and control YouTube Music while navigating, all without leaving the Maps app. 

To enable this feature, open Maps and go to Settings - Navigation Settings, and tap on Show media playback controls. There, you'll get a choice of several media apps, depending on which ones you have installed. One of them should be YouTube Music (you need to have the standalone YouTube Music app installed for it to show up here); choose it and tap Next.  Read more...