CarPlay, at least on my 2016 civic, is so buggy. And the user flow is just weird at times. Makes it more dangerous to use than just mounting your phone. I use carplay for hours a day.
1. On the civic there are no sounds for if you received a new message.
2. While fairly rare, podcasts will sometimes just stop playing. They are ones that are downloaded locally. I have to then leave apple maps, go back to the podcast app and hit play.
3. The car sometimes simply doesn't recognize carplay and I have to unplug and replug. One time, restarting the car was the only way to do it.
4. Sometimes carplay randomly just disconnects and needs to be unplugged and replugged in. This is a problem when ou are on the highway. Ive had to get off the highway just to fix the damn thing.
5. If I am in podcasts I can see the maps icon in the top right corner to go quickly back to maps. But once I get back to maps, I cant get back to podcasts without hitting the home button.
6. Apple music stations and recommends are useless on carplay. I seem to be only recommended one playlist from quebec. The interface is complete different then the one on the phone. buggy and not intuitive.
7. Siri volume - Seems to be separate from the music app volume, which is separate from the radio volume. I can be listening to the radio super low and suddenly a phone call comes in and distorts my speakers. or other times I have no idea what siri is saying because its to quiet. I always seem to have to readjust siri volume.
8. When a song is playing on a playlist through apple music, on the dash in-between my steering while it will say the number of the song "08" and the name of the song. NEVER the artist. Very strange. Why would I care what the number of a song is in a random playlist i found on apple music.
9. There should be an app that shows what is playing on the car radio. So that I can seamlessly switch back and forth. Right now you have to leave carplay to see anything. then go back to carplay and back to an app. Not intuitive.
10. Siri only works if I hold the talk button down for a while. If I press it quick I get the Honda voice system. All i have to say to that system is LOL. It's beyond a joke. it doesn't actually do anything. Why cant I have Siri on click and the Honda one on hold.
11. Maps is a whole other story. SO MUCH wrong there. A basic quick one is that it has no idea about streets where you cant left turn during certain times of the day. I have been screwed over many times by that. Also Ive had it take me on a "30 minute" route that was actually 1.5 hours because it sent me down a road that was jam packed with cars. No accident. Its just a regular day on that road. Everyone ever should avoid that road. Yet maps sent me down it. Also for ETA they don't look ahead like google does. They look at the now. But if now is 3:30 and by the time I am halfway home Ill be in the dead of rush hour, then obviously its not going to be 30 minutes. I am rarely every able to give accurate ETAs. With google I can.
12. The spotify app doesn't work. What is that about? I don't understand. It hasn't been working in the past 3 months that I have had the car. This must be more than just an update. Something is very wrong with a process if in 3 months the app still doesn't work. Like at all. no sound.
Anyways. Not sure why I took the time to write the above, other than I am frustrated with how buggy carplay is. Some of the issues might be the fault of Honda. I don't know. All i know is, I feel using the phone instead of carplay often feels a lot safer and less cumbersome.
