Chased Audi this afternoon regarding this and the response I got was:
“...tricky on your age car because it’s a MY16 bla bla bla...”
“...very easy on MY17 onwards, it’s a simple update and that’s all...” (not helpful)
“...waiting to hear back from Audi UK to see if there will be a update to fix older models, will call you when I have an answer...”
Overall - there is currently no fix for the older MMI/GPUs and, if I’m honest, I don’t think there will be any time soon.
Very annoying.
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Found this. So they could try and do an update can only work or fail to load.
My car is MY2017 and has had the software update to the new Audi Satellite layer that replaced Google Earth and is working perfectly.
The criteria is the Video GPU used in the MMI units if your MMI was manufactured before 2017 it is likely that the Nvidia Chip was used, but from mid-2017 the MMI units had the Qualcomm chips which are compatible with the Audi Satellite update software.
the easy way to see if your car can have the update is to check the Media driver version in the MMI software version screen and look for a "Q" as arrowed if you have this your software can be updated.
The Qualcomm processor version commenced around production week 45 of 2016 (early November). However, there have been some cars built into 2017 that were still using the Nvidia processor.
Production dates are therefore not reliable, you have to look at your software version (specifically the media driver version, which will contain the Q letter). However, if you don't have the "Q" in your media driver version you will have the Nvidia processor, and it cannot be updated to display the new satellite overlays.