Do you drive a 2015 Azera, or a 2016 Sonata Hybrid, Sonata Plug-In Hybrid, Veloster or Azera without CarPlay? Pro Tip: you can update your Hyundai via do-it-yourself installation, and get CarPlay! Details on the CarPlay DIY upgrade are here. You’ll be directed to https://owners.hyundaiusa.com/us/en/index.html, and you’ll need an empty Read more…
Like a helpful hand from heaven, Maps on Carplay now shows approaching cross streets. This makes it easier to judge when a turn is coming up, or to know which street to cut down to make a shortcut to get where you’re going. I used it yesterday when I cut Read more…
If you’re willing to hack your phone (“jailbreak” it), you can run every app under CarPlay. That’s a big “if”. Why would you want to do this? There are actually more automobile models that are CarPlay enabled than there are CarPlay apps. Essentially, CarBridge allows you to use your car’s Read more…
39 of respondents said that they’d rather use the navigation app on their smartphone than the system built into their dashboards. (That’s less than half of the study participants, obviously, but it’s also up 19 percent from 2014.) 57 percent of respondents wished that automakers would stop trying to develop their own infotainment Read more…
You can’t simply tap a point on the main screen and “go there”. You can on your iPhone, but that defeats the whole point of CarPlay, namely, stay off your phone. There’s no upcoming turn warning, or alert. At least, there’s no obvious way to enable this. I’m going to go out Read more…
I thought this is interesting: Mazda ad on Facebook showing CarPlay very prominently on the 2018 Mazda6‘s dash. I think they’re proud of finally being on the CarPlay bandwagon, and want to cement in buyers’ minds that new Mazdas do have CarPlay. It was a long stretch where Mazda was Read more…
Surprisingly, CarPlay is unavailable in some countries. In fact, it’s unavailable in the vast majority of the globe’s countries, given that this list is 36 items long and the number of countries currently hovers at 195. Australia Austria Belgium Brazil2 Canada Chile2 China Denmark Finland France Germany Hong Kong India2 Read more…
Apple CarPlay and Android Auto React Quicker Than Native Infotainment Systems … and when the display shows you what you want faster, you spend more time watching the road than the screen. That’s the goal of CarPlay. See the Digital Trends story. In its latest automotive safety report, the AAA Foundation Read more…
Maps are Great Mmkay. Now Let’s Get to Testing Them. Now that we’ve got choices (plural!) for maps on CarPlay, the testing and evaluation floodgates have opened and we at CarPlay World couldn’t be happier. We love this [CarPlay] stuff. When Google Maps and then Waze became available with iOS Read more…