Text Messaging - iPhone Integration with Ford Sync

lloydfromdayton wrote:

I don't see any replies on this board from Apple. It would seem that with all the complaints that Apple would offer some sort of explanation or consideration.

This is a user-to-user tech support forum. Apple doesn't participate here. That's stated in the Terms of Use we all agreed to when we signed up. You can submit feedback to Apple using the Feedback page:

http://www.apple.com/feedback

There is also a Contact Us link at the bottom right of every page with other useful information.

I just got a 2012 Honda CRV yesterday, which supports SMS via MAP and it does not work with the iPhone. From what I am reading on here Apple needs to look into this ASAP because more and more car manufactures seeming to be using it (BMW, Ford, Mercury, and Honda). Please help Apple!!!

There is nothing to look into. The iPhone doesn't support MAP.

There is something to look into... there is a forum of ticked off customers because the iPhone doesn't support a main stream (and rapidly growing) technology that the competition does support....

Please tell/show me where yu got this info that the NHTSA is looking to stop bluetooth syncing the cell phones??? That will never happen, Just thinl about it. Their main concern right now is the young drivers and TEXTING, which takes your eyes off the road for 4.6 seconds out of 6. Text involves taking eyes, hands, mind off the road. Talking to the Air on bluetooth is not worst then eating etc.!!! do your homework.

The NTSB is recommending that all use of phones by the driver, regardless of whether or not they are being used handsfree, be banned:

http://articles.cnn.com/2011-12-13/us/us_ntsb-cell-phone-ban_1_smart-phones-text ing-pickup-truck-driver?_s=PM:US

Thanks Meg. Got my gov agencies mixed up there. Too much alphabet soup to keep track of sometimes.

Other than that, you were dead on! I'll give you credit for having done your homework. 😉

You must have just read the title of that article. Second paragraph>>>> It would apply to hands-free as well as hand-held devices, but devices installed in the vehicle by the manufacturer would be allowed, the NTSB said......Read it again!!!!!😝

http://articles.cnn.com/2011-12-13/us/us_ntsb-cell-phone-ban_1_smart-phones-text ing-pickup-truck-driver?_s=PM:UShttp://

This website has Laws and Regulations>>> http://www.nhtsa.gov/

This Website Investigates, not make the Laws>>>http://www.ntsb.gov/

I recently bought a brand new Ford Edge Limited Edition and we are having same issues, both me and my wife use Iphone and love to use messaging feature over the blutooth if not we may have to switch to Galaxy, we used to have BB and then switched to iphone but its a safety feature as we spent long time on the road...Apple please fix the feature

I also just bought a 2012 Honda CRV and cannot get my Iphone 4 to work properly. The bluethooth connect drops and reconnects constantly, and the text messaging feature of the car is not supported. Apple is really screwing up big time on this... I will drop my Iphone for a new type of phone if this is not fixed by the end of my contract with AT&T.

In all of this discussion, I haven't seen anyone offer a REASON why Apple does not support Message Access Profile.

Does anyone know if there is a reason why? Something to do with how Message Access Profile works?

No one here can offer an answer to that. Anything anyone could say would be pure speculation. Apple has no public presence here.

Probably because it's not their idea and they thinks it's stupid :) but like Tim says no one really knows why they don't implement it. There could be legal reasons behind it too.

To all the people saying they will switch phones because of this, feel free. I don't think "texting while driving" should decide what kind a phone someone has. But if you really want to text and drive, Siri on the can do it.

Now all the people saying they are having problems with their phone not being able to connect and disconnecting all the time, that's not an Apple issue. How many people knew that there was updates for the Sync system in your vehicle? Probably not very many. When I first bought my truck in June, my 3GS and Sync worked fine. Then I got the 4S and it worked for a little while and started having issues with Sync not even seeing my phone, not reconnecting when i first turned on the vehicle, etc. I ended up going to Syncs website and updating my system, haven't had a problem since.