Google Maps via App Connect using IPhone

[Mart123blue]

I am sure that when we first used our van with my wife's IPhone, Google Maps functioned correctly and was displayed on the vans screen. I think that I then pressed something (from memory the VW icon) and since then we cannot use Google Maps etc.

I've had a read through search results and it appears that you can only use Apple Maps with an iPhone which I am not at all keen on.

Please could someone clarify the situation I thought it would be simple to sort?

 

[Brian’s Dad]

When IOS12 comes out next week it will allow google maps, waze etc via CarPlay.

 

[Loz]

I am sure that when we first used our van with my wife's IPhone, Google Maps functioned correctly and was displayed on the vans screen. I think that I then pressed something (from memory the VW icon) and since then we cannot use Google Maps etc.

I've had a read through search results and it appears that you can only use Apple Maps with an iPhone which I am not at all keen on.

Please could someone clarify the situation I thought it would be simple to sort?

As Matt has suggested Google maps will become available next week but it has not ever been available before.(only ever apple maps)

 

[Mart123blue]

Thanks I must have been imagining it working.

For the first time ever I will look forward to updating my phone

 

[Ocean Spirit]

In the mean time I think its worth giving apple maps a go.
It's better than you may think. I'm not a lover of it on my Mac and always use google maps instead but forced down the road on the iphone through car play and it really is good.
For example, It will learn your regular journey if you commute the same route and know where home is from anywhere if you have these features enabled on the phone.
So everytime you plug in to carplay from a destination you don't even have to have route guidance on it will just keep updating your ETA and suggest quicker routes if there is a hold up somewhere. It also colours orange or red where the traffic jams are depending on severity of delays. If you use it as sat nav and key in a post code it more than rivalled my tom tom (i had them both set up) except no speed camera's.
have a play with using it.

 

[motacyclist]

When IOS12 comes out next week it will allow google maps, waze etc via CarPlay.

iOS 12 will permit those apps but the car play versions of the apps still need to be developed

 

[kave]

Exactly, Apple maps is actually quite good. Its first next friday iOS 12 and third party navigation apps are supported on Carplay. We dont know when they will be ready. Waze (owned by google/alphabet) have starter beta testing their app with carplay support.

 

[Brian’s Dad]

iOS 12 will permit those apps but the car play versions of the apps still need to be developed

These apps will be out next week with the update!

 

[kave]

These apps will be out next week with the update!

Nice to have a Google/Waze employee here. Can you tell us more how the beta testing goes?

 

[California Dreamin]

Exciting to see Waze in beta, I haven't seen the same for google maps yet so we probably need to expect a) a few days/ weeks for some apps to appear (IOS 12 just enables them to be present in CarPlay but as said above developers still need to develop the CarPlay capabilities within the apps for them to appear) and b) a bit buggy at first as they have not been through the same number of development / beta cycles as the OS yet.

 

[Mart123blue]

I tried apple maps yesterday and it didn't seem to adjust once I left the prescribed route and then it just froze.

 

[Brian’s Dad]

You can theoretically upgrade to IOS 12 now: https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/12/...install-iphone-ipad-features-apple-event-2018

I'd guess you'll then be able to see what works. I watched the Apple release about IOS12 and they showed the extra apps were being developed last year.

 

[Mart123blue]

Tried again this morning totally via the touchscreen. Worked fine but slow as soon as I took a different turn it froze and showed ‘proceed to route’

 

[Ocean Spirit]

Tried again this morning totally via the touchscreen. Worked fine but slow as soon as I took a different turn it froze and showed ‘proceed to route’

I don't know what to say about that, mine is as reliable as anything else I've had.

 

[Mart123blue]

I know it’s weird, i’ve been using sarnavs since we used to download onto palm pilots and they all work in a similar way.

Then again my phone still has some corporate software remaining from 3 years working for a plc. I know it doesn’t recognise as many WiFi networks as my wife’s. perhaps that’s the issue. Will try again with my wife’s phone.

 

[Brian’s Dad]

Tried again this morning totally via the touchscreen. Worked fine but slow as soon as I took a different turn it froze and showed ‘proceed to route’

Which model iPhone are you using?

 

[Mart123blue]

iPhone 6.

 

[Brian’s Dad]

iPhone 6.

Just wondering if it’s your phone which is slow?

 

[reserves]

Just wondering if it’s your phone which is slow?

Apple Maps / Car Play works fine on my partners iPhone 6

 

[Loz]

Here’s what Google Maps looks like running on Apple CarPlay - The Verge https://apple.news/AT3BMjMj9QV2wdnJfJebQdw

 

[Mart123blue]

Like it. Cannot wait

 

[kave]

These apps will be out next week with the update!

Well Matt, can you help us with beta access?

 

[Brian’s Dad]

Well Matt, can you help us with beta access?

Have you updated to IOS12?

 

[Brian’s Dad]

Apologies didn't realise you'll need to join a beta programme - but it looks possible: https://waze.centercode.com/key/TM87VS0B372NFT1W

 

[kave]

You promised they would be available the 17/9, no?