Apple CarPlay GPS wrong location issue

I'm having the same issues with my Apple CarPlay on the RAV4 2023 while using Google Maps and Apple Maps.

2023 RAV4 CarPlay Navigation Issues while connect your phone to use the Apple Map or Google Map.  The issues with their navigation over Apple CarPlay randomly putting them off-road, on parallel roads, or even off the route completely, like taking an exit ramp you're not on.

I went to a Toyota dealer.

Toyota knows about them, but right now they cannot fix them yet. They will do the recall in the future, but they don't know when. 

Then they gave me the invoice with the notes, "Toyota is working on repairs; there are no repairs at this time. Customer to monitor and return when repair remedy is available."

I opened case with Toyota Brand Engagement Center. The Toyota dealer and Toyota both are talking.

Now they told me to contact Apple support to let them know too.

How do I contact Apple for Apple CarPlay with Toyota?

DKB - It seems that several car makers have bad GPS devices that frequently can't lock on the correct location due to issues like clouds or haze. Apple makes it worse by only using the vehicle's location while using CarPlay.

1. Vehicle manufacturers need to fix the GPS devices.
2. Apple needs to allow the phone and CarPlay to fail back to the phone's location. Allow the user to override the GPS source.
3. Neither the vehicle mfrs nor Apple seem at all interested in fixing this.
4. It can be very dangerous.

Good luck! If you spend 4 hours dealing with Apple like I did, nothing will come of it except a huge waste of time.

Unacceptable solution

You have to turn off WiFi on your phone but then it keeps interrupting you to insist on turning it back on.

J-Apple324 wrote:

I totally disagree. This creates a new distraction when it's supposed to be helpful.

Distractions like this one are one of the top causes of crashes.

You are in control here.

Did you try turn WiFi off on your iPhone ?

Will the problem still exists if you remove the phone and reconnect it *without* enabling wireless CarPlay?

I haven’t heard anything. I am going to hit them up tomorrow. I didn’t really give them wiggle room so I am curious to see what I get back.

Cip - does not work for me. I have the issue both wired and wireless.

Do you find any solution on the GPS wrong location issue, I’m facing the same issue too

You have to wait for CarPlay to connect via WiFi and after that to connect the cable, the connection remains on Wifi. For me it does work, that’s strange.

I’ve got the same issue on a new Pioneer DMH-WT7600NEX. Phone was on ios16.5 and Pioneer firmware was 3.0. Updated to iOS 16.6 and firmware 3.4. Have tried forgetting the devices, wireled, and wireless. Every time the phone is connected to the headunit it says I’m in a different location than I really am. Sometimes a road over or 10+ miles away.

Tried looking for this, just to be able to use the CarPlay GPS, but unfortunately I wasn’t able to figure out how to reset it. Could you help us out with this, please?

Also, has Apple or Toyota helped with this problem so far? Have they even acknowledged that it IS a thing? It’s frustrating to buy a new vehicle and have this specific thing be an issue when the sole purpose of CarPlay is to mitigate the use of a phone while driving. 🥲

Same here, and even weirder!

I've got a new used car, Peugeot Rifter 2021, with wired carplay.

Using an iPhone 13 Pro Max.

At the beginning I noticed some rare difficulties to connect (had to unplug/plug a few times so that carplay pops-up in the car.

Then, after a few days, while I was driving, boom, same problem than this topic (position offset by a few meters).

Happens on Google Maps and Waze. When I disconnected the phone, position came back OK on the phone, when I reconnected to the car, after a few seconds, position came back offset.

Weirder part : the next day, the car doesn't recognize at all my phone. On the phone, carplay settings, I delete the car profile, plug it, and see like during 500ms the popup asking to accept carplay in locked mode. No time to accept it, the popup disappears, and the car is not registered.

After a few tries I got this message on the phone "water detected in lightning port, charge will not be active".

Never got it wet..

So I quit trying to make it work, make my drive with the phone not connected..

The next day, each time I try a connection it's the same story (the connection happening during 500ms... not the water detected part). Once on like 50 tries, connection establishes OK, I see carplay on my car, and a few seconds after it disappears for ever.

I've tried to connect the phone to a charger, a computer, everything works perfect.

I cleaned the lightning port which had A LOT of dust in it, but it's the same.