Navigation for Newbies: Navigation is Easy! One of the benefits of using Apple Maps to navigate your route in CarPlay has to do with its simplicity. Even if you are a CarPlay newbie, you’ll find that much of the user interface is easy to operate. Still, you might run into 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…
Bug bug bug bug bug bug bug 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 Read more…
CarPlay is great for music and the like, but there’s other uses as well. Reddit user thewizleon posted earlier this year about a clever hack to integrate your Apple Calendar and Maps app so you can easily pull up saved locations. It’s such a nice little piece of advice we wanted 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…
Apple Maps’ 3D button works great in the few areas it works. For a tech nerd like me with a passable map fancy, Apple Maps’ 3D view is really cool. I mean, who doesn’t want to see buildings rendered in surprising detail as you move between them. It’s just cool. Read more…
Like the Waze news we reported over the summer, Waze is on CarPlay! As part of the iOS 12 update, Apple opened mapping to 3rd party apps. Google Maps was on the next day. Waze followed a few days later. So before you switch, you might want our breakdown on Read more…
As part of iOS 12, Apple opened up Google Maps to CarPlay. Finally, we’re free of Apple Maps for navigation on CarPlay! Here’s What Google Maps Looks Like on CarPlay I find Google Maps on CarPlay to be as good as Google Maps as an app. In other words, it’s Read more…
You want Waze? You got Waze. Waze is coming to CarPlay when iOS 12 is released, probably this September. This update will also allow Google Maps in CarPlay, and possibly other, lesser-known navigation apps. This is huge news for those of us who have thought that Apple Maps was a little Read more…