I still don’t know why Honda included Siri eyes free on my wife’s HR-V but not CarPlay. Wish they would update her car at least.
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CarPlay Now Available in Select 2014 and Newer Mazda Vehicles as $199 Dealer-Installed Upgrade
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No. Just poor marketing and customer service. At time of sale they just said it was ready for CarPlay and would be coming in the future. Did not indicate it required a hardware swap. I suppose this is where you say it’s my fault for not knowing they were using under powered USB ports that weren’t compliant with Apple’s certification standards?
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Absolutely love CarPlay in my 2018 Fit - it works great the majority of the time.
Was very VERY seriously considering trading my wife CX5 in for a CRV mainly bc of the lack of Car Play and response from Mazda (the dealer told us "its coming" way back in Mar 16!). I will be calling the dealer ASAP for this. Better late than never I suppose.
Was very VERY seriously considering trading my wife CX5 in for a CRV mainly bc of the lack of Car Play and response from Mazda (the dealer told us "its coming" way back in Mar 16!). I will be calling the dealer ASAP for this. Better late than never I suppose.
damn that's unfortunate.
if honda doesn't offer an upgrade then i'm afraid my next car may not be a honda. i've driven them all my life and that's just nonsense.
(disclaimer: i know i bought the car without carplay and honda doesn't owe me anything but if a smaller company like mazda can do it then so can honda)
OEM is so slow in getting tech updated. Aftermarket units like pioneer already offer wireless CarPlay/android auto. Only OEM that offer wireless is BMW but they charge yearly fees. For what? I don't understand when CarPlay is suppose to be a free software.
A while back, VW was going to demo their wireless CarPlay at an auto show, but Apple shut them down for some reason. There was an thread about it on MR.
Maybe BMW and Apple have some sort of wireless CP exclusivity deal, and that is preventing other OEMs from doing a factory wireless CP.
Haven't seen that particular issue. Does this also happen across multiple vehicles... or is the your car the common denominator?
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Amen to that! Sync 2 is just fine... for what it does... but Sync 3 is a huge improvement.
Given that Ford is not officially offering any upgrade path, how and where did you get your upgrade?
I have not had the echo issue, but I have seen many other bugs with CarPlay, such as random disconnects, not always connecting when plugged in, randoms issues like apps not working or not able to skip songs. Many other bugs too.
Sometimes unplugging, and re-plugging the iPhone in fixes the issues, but sometimes it requires me to turn the cars off and back on and restarting the iPhone.
The many issues I have seen has been with three different head units, one factory, two after market, also with different iPhones and different iOS versions.
It has gotten better since I started using CarPlay in 2009, as it was crazy buggy back then, but it is still far from perfect.
The Mazda OEM interface is so bad CarPlay is an improvement. We had the CX-5 for a year and man it was bad. Nav wasn’t very good though you could download celebrities to give directions. Plugging in the iPhone for iPod interface wasn’t worth the effort. It would take up to 5 minutes to catalog all your music before you could do anything, and this was an every time thing. I used Bluetooth audio simply because I had no patience. But it was limited. Sat radio interface was bad too, and telephone interface was awful. CarPlay will be an improvement.
As for issues with CarPlay not always connecting, I see that in the VW as well, but in my experience it’s waiting for you to unlock the phone. Sure, it’s suppsoed to remember your car and not need to unlock manually, but 1/2 the time it forgets. It’s frustrating because it doesn’t explain it. But the texting feature works well as does asking Siri for directions to points of interest.
I wish the guidance would show all traffic and not just your planned route. I am smart enough to decide if I want to deviate and let it reroute me, but it’s hard when you don’t see the traffic. Having to end guidance and then restart it to have it show all traffic is distracting.
As for issues with CarPlay not always connecting, I see that in the VW as well, but in my experience it’s waiting for you to unlock the phone. Sure, it’s suppsoed to remember your car and not need to unlock manually, but 1/2 the time it forgets. It’s frustrating because it doesn’t explain it. But the texting feature works well as does asking Siri for directions to points of interest.
I wish the guidance would show all traffic and not just your planned route. I am smart enough to decide if I want to deviate and let it reroute me, but it’s hard when you don’t see the traffic. Having to end guidance and then restart it to have it show all traffic is distracting.
Its really up to audio equipment manufacture and how much the car manufacture want to spend. Most if not all audio equipment is from a third party. If you seen behind stock units you will see markings of audio companies like pioneer or alpine. Car companies will try to put the cheapest audio parts. Cheap speakers to low powered head units. Aftermarket headhunts like pioneer are much higher powered and has more feature while costing only $400. Every major aftermarket headhunt from alpine, sony, pioneer, and kenwood all offer wireless CarPlay/android auto. If there's a restrictive issue it will be on aftermarkets but its not.
Hmmm I just need to see a tutorial. I would try to do it my self if I could. Parts here in Memphis is 170 and 200 for labor.. so just shy of $400
True but less underwhelming than Mazda’s infotainment system. I have a ‘17 Mazda3. The current system works, but man it can be flaky sometimes.
I'm not going buy that. However, I do believe built-in car GPS totally sucks and except for getting quick directions home, way to time consuming to setup. THEREFORE, I think car GPS is more accurately describes as tech from 10 years ago.
That said, Apple Car Play with Waze is a vast improvement.