I have Apple Car Play, but I have never turned it on. It requires a cable which I never have with me. The few times I've needed mapping I just used the factory built in system, for the most part I don't go anywhere - work, home, grocery store, school. All in a 5 mile radius. I can do that in my sleep.
This is fair. My apple devices have lots of features and functions I never use. But...i can imagine a situation where I am on my way to work, home, store, school and an emergency comes up and I'd like to ask Siri for directions to the nearest ER, police station, fire station.
I do agree I'd really value wireless CarPlay in my Ford on its sync 3 system.
Will you bring the fire with you to the fire station ? /s
Google Maps and Here we Go offer downloaded maps that don’t require a data plan. I use them to save data but I like Apple Maps, which also sends haptic feedback to my Apple Watch. This on an iPhone 7+ until tomorrow when I get the Max.
Looks like the microphone is dead on Honda Odyssey’s when using CarPlay Google Maps. Several complaints on odyclub.com. Other features OK but that is a big miss. Inconvenient at least, unsafe to be typing in on display.
I tried out Google Maps on CarPlay this morning and had 2 issues:
1) the volume would always default to a “medium”-ish volume, even when I turned it down. It would just reset itself next time the nav instructions came on.
2) speed limits are missing, despite the config option for them. I toggled it a bunch, to no avail.
The 2nd issue isn’t a big issue, the first was incredibly annoying. This was in a 2017 Honda CR-V
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Embarrassing!