Google Assistant Coming to Google Maps for iOS Today

So is this a backend update? I haven't gotten an iOS Google Maps update the past few days.

 

Is this working for anyone in the UK? Its something I would use a lot, but I can't see it in my google maps.

 

I learned that you also need the Google Assistant app installed for this to work.

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I learned that you also need the Google Assistant app installed for this to work.

 

Fair dinkum. I may have had the payment part backwards, but I stand by what I said about Google being the best search engine. Many people in this thread were giving Tim heat for allowing it to be the default, which is moronic.

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Which I do

 

Anyone have good use cases for this? I tried ‘hey google, please add a stop at a gas station along the way to my destination’ but that didn’t add a stop or even give me options in map (it just gave me a google assistant list of gas stations). Makes me wonder, can this integration do anything useful with maps or is it just a way to ask random assistant questions while using maps