Help Google maps has vanished from my android phone

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I noticed yesterday that it wasn't working, so restarted my phone and now it has just vanished.
It's not something I installed myself, it came with the phone system and was actually impossible for me to remove even if I had wanted to.

I'm going to be needing a map tonight, so will my daughter (same phone type). Anyone know why this has happened/ What can I do?

 

[souljacker]

No idea why it's disappeared but you should be able to go to the play store and reinstall it.

 

[weltweit]

Are you sure you haven't just moved it into a group of programs somewhere on your phone top. I know how easy it is with fat finger syndrome to move something you didn't want to move.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Are you sure you haven't just moved it into a group of programs somewhere on your phone top. I know how easy it is with fat finger syndrome to move something you didn't want to move.

No. It was on my phone desktop but also in the google folder where it was not possible to move it from. If stopped working and showed an android logo instead of the maps icon. I restated my phone and it vanished from both locations.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

No idea why it's disappeared but you should be able to go to the play store and reinstall it.

. . .
I don't know why but I assumed it would not install after reading on the web that it wouldn't
. . but I just did and it appears to be fine so far.

 

[platinumsage]

It would help if you revealed what phone you have.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

It would help if you revealed what phone you have.

I said an android phone is that not enough? Would you know the answer if I told you the make? I honestly don't know, besides as mentioned it's now reinstalled.

 

[platinumsage]

I said an android phone is that not enough? Would you know the answer if I told you the make? I honestly don't know, besides as mentioned it's now reinstalled.

All Android phones have particular software installed by their manufacturer, so yes in general you need to know the phone model to provide tech advice.

 

[Ted Striker]

To feed the conspiracy...This happened to me with Android Chrome...Quite bizarre.

Just disappeared. Went to the Play store and had to (iirc) re - enable it (I think its one of those apps you can't uninstall). As soon as it was re-enabled it was exactly immediately back to the state before it disappeared.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

To feed the conspiracy...This happened to me with Android Chrome...Quite bizarre.

Just disappeared. Went to the Play store and had to (iirc) re - enable it (I think its one of those apps you can't uninstall). As soon as it was re-enabled it was exactly immediately back to the state before it disappeared.

I re-installed but it has decided it's not an un-removable part of the system anymore and has not aligned itself with the other google apps as before.