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Have you used carplay? It is awful. Takes 30 seconds to start. Crashes frequently, unresponsive often. I don’t necessarily blame apple for this, but they clear
by nathantotten 8y ago
Have you used carplay? It is awful. Takes 30 seconds to start. Crashes frequently, unresponsive often.
I don’t necessarily blame apple for this, but they clearly didn’t put strict enough requirements on the hardware that runs CarPlay.
- majormajor 8y agoMy experience is the same. For day to day, bluetooth phone<->car connection beats Carplay or Android Auto. Wireless autoconnect is key, should've been in the V1 of those standards. I never bother with Carplay for less than a 1 hour trip.
- ancorevard 8y agoCarPlay connects wirelessly through both Bluetooth and WiFi. I’m enjoying it a lot. Never need to pull my phone out my pocket.
- robin_reala 8y agoIt needs WiFi for a wireless connection, Bluetooth doesn’t have enough bandwidth.
- nathantotten 8y agoThat’s awesome. I didn’t know wireless was supported. Clearly some car manufacturers have done better jobs with the integration/hardware than others.
- xirdstl 8y agoAside from the startup time, I don’t have any of those problems. I love CarPlay and would not consider buying a car without it
- msh 8y agoEh, it’s instant on in my car (a Citroen) but I suspect they start booting the electronics when I unlock the car. In the 3 months I have had the car it have never crashed but twice CarPlay refused to find the phone and required a reboot of the phone.
- chaostheory 8y agoYou need a better, stronger lightning cable for your car. Apple OEM cables can’t take the wear and tear in a car. As long as my lightning cable is good, so is CarPlay. You can also go the wireless route as an alternative
- nathantotten 8y agoInteresting. I am using Apple branded cables. Any specific recommendations on what works well?
- danieldk 8y agoWe use CarPlay all the time, it works almost instantaneously after plugging the phone and it is always responsive. The primary beef that we have with it is that you cannot use Google Maps. Though Apple Maps is definitely many times better than the built-in navigation system. As you say, it is probably a problem with some hardware.
- nathantotten 8y agoIt seems based on other comments that it varies wildly by manufacturer. Several others in here mentioned issues with the same vehicle I have. Really unfortunate, it’s clearly better than the built in software. Maybe there is hope that Volvo will issue an update that improves stability.