How to hear just Maps' spoken directions, without triggering music/podcasts?
I have my iPhone 13 Pro connected via Bluetooth to my car stereo. Normally, I listen to podcasts or music while navigating via Maps. The spoken directions momentarily pause the music or podcast just fine. Sometimes glitchy, but mostly seems to work as expected.
The other day I was with a passenger and just wanted spoken directions. I was having a conversation and did not want to hear the podcast. I just want spoken directions with nothing else. This simple thing seems to be impossible to do. After each spoken direction, my podcast would resume, forcing me to manually hit the stop button on the car stereo.
Force-quitting the Podcast app made no difference. After the next spoken direction, my last podcast just resumes playing.
What is going on here? Why is it impossible to just hear spoken directions and nothing else??
All three Spoken Directions options in the Maps app are turned on:
• Directions Pause Podcasts - ON (turning it off makes no difference to this issue)
• Directions Wake Device - ON
• Directions on Radio - ON (have to keep this one on as sometimes the spoken directions couldn't be heard at all, which is weird since the device is always in BT mode, not radio.)
