Apple Car Play

[Mudball]

Anyone use it? Reviews? Most online reviews are US based so not sure how it is here. The key app i would like to use is Waze. Reviews suggest Waze now available via iOS 13.


And to keep it even... anyone using Android Auto??

 

[GB72]

Wife has out it in her car. Uses Waze all the time and works perfectly.

 

[Deleted member 21784]

Both work Pretty much the same

Make a massive version of your phone on the screen

Can have your texts read out and you can dictate reply

Maps via Google or Waze become so useful so you don't need a sat Nav

And ofc it makes calls

 

[Mudball]

Both work Pretty much the same

Make a massive version of your phone on the screen

Can have your texts read out and you can dictate reply

Maps via Google or Waze become so useful so you don't need a sat Nav

And ofc it makes calls

From the reviews i read, looks like Waze via Carplay is not the same as Waze on the phone? or is that just a bloody BMW way of doing it?

Can you update hazards etc via your steering wheel or do you need across the dash to key it into the touch screen?

 

[Deleted member 21784]

From the reviews i read, looks like Waze via Carplay is not the same as Waze on the phone? or is that just a bloody BMW way of doing it?

It's more basic but same principle

Gets you from a to b

 

[Lord Tyrion]

I use Android Auto mainly to play my music through. I have a Samsung phone but we have a family Apple music account.

Phone calls, satnav I still use my inbuilt system for. I'm sure if I was shown how to use Google maps properly I may use that more but I can't quite crack it consistently 😄. I keep using the inbuilt system as it is pretty good so no need to mess around.

As has been said before the app puts certain apps up on your car media screen. Once connected you can then access everything via your info system. How much you use it probably depends on how good or not your car system is.

 

[HampshireHog]

Seems to be in most hire cars I get get when travel, works well works well for streaming via Apps. TBH I’m a Luddite and don’t trust Sat Nav on a phone and still hire the Garmin, it’s not my money!

Definitely, better than just plain Bluetooth but I wouldn’t care if my car had it or not.

 

[Mudball]

Just found out that the Car Play is subscription!! Annual cost of £80.. WTF. I would have thought it would be a hardware thing but apparently not

 

[Deleted member 16999]

Just found out that the Car Play is subscription!! Annual cost of £80.. WTF. I would have thought it would be a hardware thing but apparently not

It varies from manufacturer, I believe it’s free for 12 months with BMW then annual subscription.

 

[Lump]

It varies from manufacturer, I believe it’s free for 12 months with BMW then annual subscription.

I’m sure I’ve read somewhere that it’s free if it’s a wired connection, and chargeable if it’s wireless. Could be BS though.
I have it on my Transit custom. Use it with Waze and google maps. Works pretty well but can be a bit thick at time’s and won’t recognise the phone. Think that’s more the ford Sync side though.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Just found out that the Car Play is subscription!! Annual cost of £80.. WTF. I would have thought it would be a hardware thing but apparently not

Tight bunch. I would never have thought it would be a chargeable thing.

 

[Deleted member 21784]

Tight bunch. I would never have thought it would be a chargeable thing.

I like it that much I'd pay for it

However honda didn't offer it at the time

I'd rather pay £80 a year than the 1k up front for the built in system

Which normally is for 3 years of maps and then u have to pay for updates

 

[ScienceBoy]

Car makers are finally giving up on their own gps, well starting to anyway.

All people need is a bit of info about the car, a digital radio and a way to connect their phone for everything else.

All the rest is a waste of money and probably then trying to recoup money spend developing things that ended up not being useful to most users these days.

 

[Hacker Khan]

I've got android auto and use it all the time to play podcasts and spotify through. Couldn't do without it. My car also starts reading out whatsapp messages to me and I can dictate them back through speaking to it. But to be honest I have no idea if that's being done through android auto or some other gubbins that my car has. Mostly I just bark instructions at my car and things happen, not entirely sure how.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

I've got android auto and use it all the time to play podcasts and spotify through. Couldn't do without it. My car also starts reading out whatsapp messages to me and I can dictate them back through speaking to it. But to be honest I have no idea if that's being done through android auto or some other gubbins that my car has. Mostly I just bark instructions at my car and things happen, not entirely sure how.

That is Android Auto at work. Some cars will allow you to reply to text messages verbally but the Whatsapp message and reply is an Android Auto trick I believe. Do you know how to send a message through that without it being a reply? I haven't cracked that one yet.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

I like it that much I'd pay for it

However honda didn't offer it at the time

I'd rather pay £80 a year than the 1k up front for the built in system

Which normally is for 3 years of maps and then u have to pay for updates

That is a fair point. I guess I have never had a top end car so I am not used to pay extra for this type of item. My current car, a Skoda, comes fully loaded in a business style edition, no extras required on the tech front. I appreciate I am paying for that somewhere down the line but it is all included so it does not feel like an extra.

 

[Hacker Khan]

That is Android Auto at work. Some cars will allow you to reply to text messages verbally but the Whatsapp message and reply is an Android Auto trick I believe. Do you know how to send a message through that without it being a reply? I haven't cracked that one yet.

No idea, to be honest I rarely use Whatsapp, my car just started reading them to me once out of the blue. Freaked me out to be honest, and it got even more freaky when I shouted stuff back and it created the message for me. There's probably a lot of stuff my car/android auto does that I do not know about as I got an upgraded ICE. My company recently took over a company that supplies weather radar pictures and end destination weather forecasts to a lot of car manufacturers which they then display on the screens in cars. That's clever I thought. Then after a bit of ferreting around in the unexplored options in my ICE turns out my car could do that. Had it nearly 2 years and I never knew.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

No idea, to be honest I rarely use Whatsapp, my car just started reading them to me once out of the blue. Freaked me out to be honest, and it got even more freaky when I shouted stuff back and it created the message for me. There's probably a lot of stuff my car/android auto does that I do not know about as I got an upgraded ICE. My company recently took over a company that supplies weather radar pictures and end destination weather forecasts to a lot of car manufacturers which they then display on the screens in cars. That's clever I thought. Then after a bit of ferreting around in the unexplored options in my ICE turns out my car could do that. Had it nearly 2 years and I never knew.

I'm on a car forum and a couple of years ago a thread started with 'things your car does that you didn't know at first'. The stuff that came out was great. Not everything was available on my car but a few things were, all hidden away. The same applies to mobile phones, lots of stuff there that you are not aware of.

 

[Hacker Khan]

I'm on a car forum and a couple of years ago a thread started with 'things your car does that you didn't know at first'. The stuff that came out was great. Not everything was available on my car but a few things were, all hidden away. The same applies to mobile phones, lots of stuff there that you are not aware of.

True. It's helped by the fact I get company cars and I never test them before, I assume they'll be fine. I figure nowadays they will work and get me where I need to get to. So the first I ever see of them is when some old boy who is a delivery driver drops the car off at my house. Makes it quite exciting to be honest. Understandably the delivery drivers have no idea what the car does so I take 2 minutes connecting it to my phone, start reading the manual, get bored after 30 seconds and that's usually it for configuring any ICE or car set up. I suppose I only have myself to blame......

 

[Lord Tyrion]

True. It's helped by the fact I get company cars and I never test them before, I assume they'll be fine. I figure nowadays they will work and get me where I need to get to. So the first I ever see of them is when some old boy who is a delivery driver drops the car off at my house. Makes it quite exciting to be honest. Understandably the delivery drivers have no idea what the car does so I take 2 minutes connecting it to my phone, start reading the manual, get bored after 30 seconds and that's usually it for configuring any ICE or car set up. I suppose I only have myself to blame......

Forums are great for that. You get a few grumps who just reply with RTFM but most are really helpful as they have been through the same thing. The manuals are so huge that you can't be bothered to read them, they are a major turn off. The mfrs should do 30-45 second mini videos on Youtube showing you how to use the gadgets, that would be a better than a 200 page manual.