See iOS 13 update details Part 1 iOS 13 offers some nice updates for your iPhone, but it’s also making Apple CarPlay better, too. After you get your iOS 13 update, you’ll notice some great extra features, like a brand-new dashboard and several new and improved apps. CarPlay Dash With Read more…
Why do we report on iOS? Because it’s the “parent” of CarPlay; CarPlay runs under iOS, while iOS is the operating system software that runs your phone. When something changes/improves/breaks/gets fixed in iOS, it can affect CarPlay, thus our interest in iOS in general and iOS 13 in particular. iOS Read more…
If you want to take advantage of one of the most useful crowdsourced navigation tools out there, then you’ll love how Waze gives you information in real time. For many years now, I’ve enjoyed using Waze even back when it was just an app on my phone. Waze is not Read more…
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…