Google Maps on Android Auto: some users are now losing the speedometer

Google Maps on Android Auto seems to have picked up a strange intermittent bug: the speedometer disappears, and for some people the speed limit indicator disappears right along with it.

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User reports make the whole thing harder to pin down. It can show up one day, then be gone the next. One phone has it, another doesn’t. People have floated a few theories, including a specific Google Maps or Android Auto version, account settings, a server-side test, or switching between beta and stable builds. So far, though, nothing’s been confirmed.

The timing makes it even more frustrating. The speedometer reportedly only started reaching beta testers in July 2026, and it still hasn’t rolled out to everyone. So some of you are losing a feature that only just arrived. At the same time, other complaints about missing stop signs, traffic lights, and live traffic point to a wider Google Maps rendering issue, and that may overlap with an older traffic bug.

If you use Google Maps a lot in the car, keep an eye on this. Google hasn’t acknowledged the problem, and it’s still not clear which phones , cars, versions, accounts, or regions are affected.

Google Maps and Android Auto are both available on Google Play. Until Google says something, all you can really do is try different versions or wait it out. That’s happening while Android Auto 17.3 and 17.4 are also rolling out to fix separate crashes and connection failures that have reportedly affected Waze users too.

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