KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysia’s homegrown navigation app Tuju has finally found a solution to its biggest problem, and it’s brilliant. Instead of trying to figure out the best way to navigate you to your destination, it now simply redirects you to an app that already knows how to do it.

Following a recent update for Android users, tapping the navigation button in Tuju now brings up a message informing users that it will launch Google Maps to take them to their destination.

In other words, Tuju’s solution to its unreliable turn-by-turn navigation is to hand over the job to Google Maps. Problem solved!

Tuju for Android now redirects navigation to Google Maps

The latest Tuju update for Android is version 2.0.4, which was released on October 30. This comes ahead of the developer’s promised deadline of November 6 to restore its navigation feature.

Instead of providing turn-by-turn navigation within Tuju itself, the Android app now informs users that Google Maps will be launched when they tap on the navigation option.

This is certainly a much more practical solution than relying on Tuju’s previous navigation system, which struggled to provide accurate driving instructions. From our experience with both Android and iOS versions, Tuju was mostly giving straight and merge instructions without any useful context.

The irony is that Tuju’s homepage still prominently displays the tagline “Nak Pergi Mana? Tuju Je”, which translates to “Need to go somewhere? Just use Tuju.”

Except now, when you actually want to go somewhere, Tuju tells you to use Google Maps instead. And yes, Google Maps supports Android Auto.

For iPhone users, the Tuju app remains unchanged. The iOS version is still listed as version 1.5.5, which was last updated in November 2025.