MyFord Touch - iPhone Contacts - Navigation

I have deleted country several times and it puts it back in. I took my phone out of range from 2013 Ford Escape. It still put country back in. I assumed that my problem is my phone is iPhone 3GS. An answer would be great!

Hi,

I had iPhone 3GS at that time. I now have I phone5. I have not updated to newest (7.??). I have tried to use contacts w/6.1.4 with Navigation. I cannot because of country. The best way for me to send an address to my car is to use Mapquest and put in an address. Send it to MyFordSync. It then ask for cell phone number associated w/ MFS. It wii say sent.. Then go to car, use voice, say "services ". It will repeat address. You tell it YES. Then you have to tell it to set as destination or set as waypoint.

I hope this will help until there is a fix. I've tried complaining to Ford and Apple. No luck.

Janis

Just noticed that Apple says this is Ford's problem.

What iPhone and OS are you using? I've had some family members that hate 7.0.3. I keep putting it off until some bugs are corrected.

I'm certainly going to check out the link. Mannnny thanks!

MyFord Touch requires addresses to follow a specific format otherwise it says they are invalid.

By testing various address formats I have determined the address format which MyFord Touch understands.

A valid MyFord Touch address looks like this

123 S Main St

St Charles, IL 60606

USA

Format Rules:

1) The street address can't contain periods therefore 123 S. Main St. is invalid to MyFordTouch. Neither the S. or St. may contain a period.

2) The street address must be abbreviated thus 123 South Main Street is invalid to MyFordTouch. South and Street must be abbreviated

3) The city must not contain periods therefore St. Charles is not valid to MyFordTouch.

4) The city must be abbreviated thus Saint Charles is not valid to MyFordTouch.

5) The country must be USA. U.S.A. and United States are not valid to MyFordTouch. The iPhone sets the country to United States. Use the Contacts application in Mac OS X to change the country to USA.

Have had same problem with United States not being abbreviated with iPhone 4s iOS 8. jaypaul! said to use abbreviation for USA in Max OS x but can this be done on Window 8.1 without using copytrans.net software? Using Thunderbird for mail.

Removing unwanted “Country Entry” in iPhone Contacts

Work around removing "Country Entry" in iPhone Contacts. If you are a Comcast Customer and have the XFINITY Connect APP on your iPhone you can either create a contact without or edit out the “Country Entry”. Open XFINITY Connect APP, go to Contacts on APP and touch iPhone at top of screen. You are now looking at iPhone contacts. Touch the contact you want to edit, touch edit, go to “Country Entry”, touch “Country Entry” and back space delete to remove it. Touch save. You have now removed the “Country Entry”. The contact will also be saved to iCloud without the “Country Entry”. You can also create new Contacts without the unwanted “Country Code” with XFINITY Connect APP. Just touch the + sign to create a new Contact and do not enter a “Country Code” Your Contacts will now work fine for My Ford Touch Navigation.

I don't know if I'm missing something or what, but I can't even find a place to ATTEMPT to use an address from my phone's contacts as a nav destination.

Just got a 2015 Explorer with the MyFord Touch system. iPhone 6+ is paired and phonebook is transferred. In the Nav screen there is no apparent way to use an phonebook entry. And if I go to the phone screen, while I can see the listing for a contact (name, phone numbers, address), the address is not selectable.

The salesman, when questioned, said that it was not an included functionality, and gave us some story about security considerations.... Doesn't make any sense to me.

An address in your MyFord Sync Phonebook downloaded from your Smartphone’s contacts can be used as Navigation destinations on your MyFord Touch Screen by:

1. Touch (Phone), upper left corner of screen
2. Touch (Phonebook)
3. Touch a (Contact) that you know has an address in it, not just a Phone Number and email address
4. Touch (Option) on right of screen
5. Touch (Set as Destination), address must have been entered into your Smart Phone properly formatted.

Example:

Joe Smith

345 S East St

St Louis, MO 63109

Navigation will use the properly formatted address as a destination.

If you get “Invalid Address” then something in the address format is wrong, using Street not St, Lane not Ln, Circle not Cir, or etc. etc. and/or having Country entry.

I've experimented with MyFord Touch phone contacts (from my iPhone) with the various formatting options mentioned above and in no cases can I get an option to navigate to them. When I look at a phone contact and click on "Option" I only see "Delete Photo". There no "invalid address" or grayed out navigate option as mentioned by tommy-d.

I have a 2015 Mustang with the latest MyFord Touch system according to the Ford website.

Any pointers on what I'm missing or did Ford just disable this option?

Are you surprised? Touch is developed by Microsoft. Why would Microsoft fix this feature if it would benefit Apple's iPhone? It's easier to just remove the feature.