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How did it manifest? I just turned off wifi and wifi scanning and navigation still seems to work fine for me. No permissions prompt at all, though it's hard to tell from the linked post exactly what was happening at the time.

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Tapping a location icon on the map or using Assistant works as expected but trying to use a shortcut or one of your hotbar locations like Home or Work or trying to re-center the map gets me a demand popup and a refusal to navigate or show directions, with a "Can't apply some route options" if I try again. If it's like last year the wifi scanning demand will expand to more and more of the map functionality over time.

Try clearing app data. Google Maps recently started going crazy for me, it either ignored compass or it was always showing its precision as low (therefore not using it), it only wanted to find real world directions by scanning with camera (which doesn't work outside cities). Today it wanted me to enable high precision and scanning networks even I have them on.

I decided to clear the app data, everything is in the cloud anyway and boom, all the issues are magically gone.

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