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Really can depend on the car too. I mostly love CarPlay in my Mazda[1]. My wife hates it in her Chevy Volt[2]. [1] Apple gives the car manufacturer the ability
by js2 7y ago
Really can depend on the car too. I mostly love CarPlay in my Mazda[1]. My wife hates it in her Chevy Volt[2].
[1] Apple gives the car manufacturer the ability to truncate the length of scrollable lists while the car is in motion, which Mazda does. Nothing like only being able to see the first 15 items in a list of podcasts, or artists, or songs. I hate this. But otherwise the implementation is great, especially the integration between the car's physical controls and CarPlay. There's a steering wheel button to bring up Siri. There's direct physical button access to Maps, Now Playing, and the home screen. It would be nice if Apple allowed me to set Google Maps as the default mapping app, but Apple maps has become good enough most of the time. Aside, my 2016 CX-9 came w/o CarPlay. Mazda made it available as a DIY'able retrofit last year. The parts were a couple hundred dollars and it took a couple hours to retrofit.
[2] Once the entire entertainment system froze up and it didn't fix itself till like the next day. I've been meaning to check if there's an update from Chevy.
- wcunning 7y agoI'm an Android user, but have been considering switching to Apple, and it turns out that you can make GMaps or Waze the default mapping app for CarPlay. I was just reading about it as part of this thread. https://9to5mac.com/2018/09/24/how-to-use-waze-on-carplay/ https://9to5mac.com/2018/09/24/how-to-use-waze-on-carplay/
- modeless 7y agoThat's just putting a shortcut on the screen. It doesn't change any other defaults. Siri will still only open Apple Maps. Same with Calendar, iMessage, Contacts, etc.
- lparry 7y ago“Give me directions to foo” - gives directions to foo in apple maps “Give me directions to foo using Waze” - gives directions to do using Waze This might be new, but it definitely works on the iOS 13 beta, although I’m pretty sure it worked on iOS 12. It would still be nicer if we could just set default apps
- RandallBrown 7y agoCan confirm that this works on iOS 12.
- garyclarke27 7y agoYes Waze is great on Apple carplay. Perfect Speed camera warnings are a lifesaver here in Europe.
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- hyperman1 7y agoDont French cops take away every device showing speed cametad while driving?
- maccard 7y agoYou can do this with Android Auto - no need to swap to Apple!
- js2 7y agoThat does not make Waze the default mapping app. 9to5mac is wrong. Changing the order of the apps is only cosmetic.
- glhaynes 7y agoI had no idea the limiting of lists was at the option of the car maker. Interesting! I hate that aspect of it in my Honda.
- js2 7y agoYup. At first I blamed Spotify. Then Apple. Then I learned it was Mazda to blame: 1. "Intelligently filter content when the vehicle is moving. Certain cars may cause CarPlay to truncate lists of content when the vehicle is in motion or has exceeded a certain speed." 2. contentLimitsEnforced: A Boolean value indicating whether contents limits are enforced by the content server. 3. enforcedContentItemsCount: Returns the number of content items that are displayed when content limiting is enforced. [1] https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/carplay/overview/audio-apps/ https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline... [2] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/mediaplayer/mpplayablecontentmanagercontext/1623570-contentlimitsenforced https://developer.apple.com/documentation/mediaplayer/mpplay... [3] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/mediaplayer/mpplayablecontentmanagercontext/1623568-enforcedcontentitemscount https://developer.apple.com/documentation/mediaplayer/mpplay...
- chaostheory 7y agoCarPlay worked fine on my Chevy Volt(s). I owned the later generations. It’s even better on my Bolt since it seems they figured out that everyone will either use CarPlay or Android Auto. The problem with the Volt(s) is that there didn’t seem to be a way to remotely update the HUD. This has changed with newer Bolts