You can add the standalone Street View app to Google’s growing graveyard of products. When decompiling the latest version of the Android app, 9to5Google found shutdown notices that the company hasn’t yet released. In these notices, the tech giant announces that the Street View app is going away and that support will end on March 21, 2023. Spokesperson Madison Gouveia has confirmed to The Verge that the app is indeed getting the axe. Gouveia also told the publication that Google will pull Street View from app stores in the coming weeks.
Google announced that in 2015 it would turn Street View into its own app. Available for both Android and iOS, it lets you upload your own spherical photos from your phone or spherical cameras. Last year, the company also introduced Photo Paths, which lets you contribute a series of 2D photos of roads and locations that haven’t been documented by a Street View car (or a camel or a sheep) in the past .
Street View will remain a key feature of Google Maps, so you’ll still be able to explore virtually all the places the tech giant has documented with its cameras. You can also continue to add spherical photos to Maps and publish 360-degree videos with Street View Studio. As 9to5Google points out, however, there will no longer be a way to add photo trails after Google completely shuts down the dedicated Street View app. However, previously submitted Photo Path images will continue to be displayed on Google Maps.