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It's a bit of a pain if two people share the car. Even worse if two people share more than one car. There never seems to be an option to force use a specific
by LanceH 4y ago
It's a bit of a pain if two people share the car. Even worse if two people share more than one car. There never seems to be an option to force use a specific phone when more than one is possible. They all seem sticky to a phone and it always seems to be the other one.
I guess a good thing about carplay is that when traveling with someone else, they can use their phone to update things like maps, and we're not completely locked out of it until we come to a stop.
- Operyl 4y agoToyota's wireless carplay lets you switch in the Settings very quickly (10-15 seconds to get there). So they're not universally bad at least.
- secstate 4y ago10-15 seconds is an eternity. I can switch the bluetooth phone connected in a 10 year old car in 10-15 seconds.
- Operyl 4y agoEh, I frequently switch. I just do it while I wait for the AC to kick in, not a huge deal.
- newjersey 4y agoI have a much older car from 2007 so no Android Auto or Apple Carplay for me but I thought I was supposed to sit there after I start my car for at least half a minute? Maybe not needed for newer cars? I start the car and wait for the dashcam to chime. I start driving once it chimes. I have an older Aukey, not hard wired, so it takes about half a minute for it to chime which I thought was perfect timing.
- sokoloff 4y agoAssuming temps over -20°C and a car newer than 30 years, I think you’re fine to drive away as soon as the engine is stable after starting. That’s probably well under 5 seconds and, unless you’re trying to do an old LeMans race start, isn’t something that I’d consciously wait for.
- drfuchs 4y agoThe CarTalk brothers agree: don’t wait, just drive.
- Freedom2 4y ago10-15 seconds is an eternity. I can switch mine in about 1-2 seconds. Any reason why you seem to be slow?
- shjake 4y ago1-2 seconds is an eternity. I can switch mine in about 0-1 seconds. Any reason why you seem to be slow?
- secstate 4y agoBecause it's an old Kia and there's three menus to click thorough and one confirmation screen. I'd guess 15 is a little long, but on average it takes at least 10 seconds.
- iainmerrick 4y agoRight, this is my main problem with Bluetooth too. It’s much better if you can just plug a cable into the phone you want to use and have it just work (and keep the phone charged too). You can’t quite do that with any car I’ve been in. CarPlay is close; it would be great if that became an open standard with standard connectors.
- spockz 4y agoI really liked wireless CarPlay when testing the Enyaq and wondered about the multi user situation. Already today Bluetooth always seems to get exactly the wrong phone. In our current setup we just have a phone holder with plug in which we shove the phone. Then it is done. It takes longer to pull the phone out of the pocket than to connect it. The only downside to CarPlay is that the battery stays at 100% charge. I wish I could limit that to 80%. Especially if we take long drives this degrades the battery unnecessarily.
- shrx 4y agoCare to elaborate? Are phones not supposed to be charged to 100%?
- throwbadubadu 4y agolmgtfy: Its the extremes (0% and 100%) that degrades LiIon the quickest, if you want the longest life ideally you'd keep it 30-70% the whole time, ymmv (and also thresholds). And it is a pity manufacturers don't support you in doing stop-charging-at-x if you wanted, e.g. a simple thing for software to do, but impossible without rooting on Android.
- kiksy 4y agoSamsung S22 Ultra (at least) has a 'Protect Battery' setting which limits charge to 85% .
- Arrath 4y agoIts been a feature since at least the S9. Source: Had to 'fix' my girlfriend's phone only charging to 85%. Was a mystery how that setting got randomly enabled, really. I can't recall for certain if my old S7 had that option but I don't think it did.
- Mesopropithecus 4y agoASUS Zenphone has a setting that lets you set a charging limit at 80, 90, or 100%.
- dionidium 4y agoMy wife and I share a VW Tiguan and this is a constant annoyance. To switch devices you have to go out of CarPlay -> Settings -> Swipe left to the second screen of controls -> Mobile Device Settings -> Select device. And since the device it initially chooses to connect to sometimes takes 30 seconds or so to be fully connected (during which time you can't make any selections in this menu), you have to sit and wait until it connects the device you don't want to be connected before you can switch to the one you do want. And then you wait about 30 seconds for the correct device to connect.
- david422 4y agoPretty sure mine has a setting where you can prefer which phone is selected when connected.
- LanceH 4y agoWe've done this in numerous rental cars. Many variations of the same problem -- it picks the phone it picks. We've had to resort to deleting one phone from the car (and the phone's bluetooth) to get it back on the other phone. It's inconceivable how the pairings are so bad and there isn't just a button for each phone connected that just works. Even when switching does work, all it takes is one blip and it hops over the other phone. Again, this is on multiple cars on long road trips where we have at least two people to work on it and literally hours to figure it out. We generally settle on a single phone per car now, because it just isn't worth it.