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Problems with "Parked Car" Feature (iOS 10 Maps)

I upgraded to iOS 10 on my iPhone 5S yesterday. I cannot get the parked car feature of maps to work.


I have the following enabled:


-All Apple Maps Notification options

-Maps Location Services (While Using). "Always" is not available as an option.

-System Services: Frequent Locations

-System Services:Routing and Traffic

-System Services:Improve Maps


My phone connects via Bluetooth to my car's handsfree system. Is it not carplay.


What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance!

iPhone 5s, iOS 10

Posted on Sep 14, 2016 11:06 AM

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Posted on May 5, 2017 3:14 PM

This makes no sense.

  • Parked car updates used to work for me with this car and this iPhone. The car is 6 months old.
  • parked car updates no longer work now with this same car and iPhone.
  • work and home commute estimates still fire every time, when I get in the car I am given this info
  • I had my car in for maintenance and received the same car (different color - LOL) as a loaner yesterday. I paired BT for the day and it gave me parked car updates.
  • Got back in my car and ... nope
  • deleted my BT and reconnected and no change.
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Sep 23, 2016 5:47 PM in response to mporange

Had the same issue. Got it to work!


In addition to turning on the location services specified earlier in the thread, be sure that you have filled out your "Home" card in Contacts. Up at the very top, above the A's. Be sure to use a street address (I don't think it will work with a P.O. Box, but can't try until tomorrow). Also, not sure if it is needed to activate it, but I did do a manual save with Siri "Save Car Location" (I had seen on a different post that this sometimes triggers it to work).


Once I did that, everything worked. Only issue is that in the notification widget, when minimized and you are away from home, the first entry is your distance/time to home, and you need to hit "show more" in order to get the second entry, which is the car park location.


Hope that works for you!

Sep 25, 2016 7:42 AM in response to Crakob

I Think you are right. There has to be a way for it to distinguish between a car radio and headphones. I am hoping it's the name. We can change it. I changed the name of my Pioneer to Mazda. No luck. Can someone who has it working post the name of their Bluetooth connection?


I can change Mazda to BMW and give it delusions of grandeur if that's what it takes.

Sep 30, 2016 2:34 AM in response to mporange

OK. Under Apples advice I have wiped my 5s and set up as a new phone. spent about a day re-downloading apps and setting up logins etc for third party apps. Deleted original phone from car bluetooth and paired phone (under new name!)

made sure Frequent locations is on, and that i have a Siri has contact card for me. I have also manually told siri to remember where i parked.


Still doesn't work, even though it works with my son's 6, so must be a setting somewhere in my icloud or associated to my phone, or it doesnt work with a particular 5s model (ME432B/A)

Sep 30, 2016 12:39 PM in response to mporange

I'm going to apologize in advance if it seems like I don't believe you all are doing everything, but I've noticed something that I don't understand as it relates to "Home" in contacts that may be creating a problem, and it would be real easy to miss. So forgive me for going step by step.


There can be a disassociation between a contact card called "Home" and the use of "Home" as recognized as a location of significance on the Iphone. Don't know if that relates to the fact that I use Exchange for my contacts, but I don't think so.


You can see if that disassociation exists by the following. You should see a listing at the very top (above the A's) that will say "my card", and if you click on it your address info should be there. Then, scroll down to the actual listing. Next to the contact used to create your Home Location, it should say all the way to the right "me". If either of those things are not present, there may be a dissociation between your Home Location as set in the IPhone and your contact card for Home.


Whether you see the disassociation or not, I recommend you try the following.


If you do not have an entry in your contact list called "Home", create one. Be sure to include a physical home address. Then go to "Settings", "Contacts", and hit the "My info" listing. That will take you to your contact list, scroll down to the "Home" contact card, and select that.


Now go to your home screen, double tap the button to pull up a list of all "open" apps, and close all of them, particularly the "contacts" app.


Now reopen your contacts. You should have a "my card" listing above the "A's". Scroll down to the Home listing in the "H's", and be sure the contact card listing for "Home" says "me" on the right side. At that point, your IPhone location and your contact card are synced. Now see if the car location works.


I'm not sure if you really need to have a separate card for "Home", or if you can just point the "My info" entry above to a named contact card, but I'll leave it to others to test that. For now, however, use a card called "Home" to see if that will work for you.


Two things to note. Fully closing the contact app (double click the home button and "flick away" contacts) is important, as the contact list will not fully update until you close and reopen the app. Just going to the home screen and back to contacts is not sufficient. Second, when testing to see if this works, note that your parking location does not pop up immediately. I don't know if it is a time delay, or if after noting your location when you turn off the car and terminate the bluetooth connection, it does not display until you have physically moved away from the vehicle. Either way, when testing, after turning off the car walk 30 feet away and then see if your parked location is noted.


Your issues may be different, but I have been able to "break" and then "fix" this function on my Iphone by screwing around with these entries, so it may be worth a shot for you to try.


Good luck!

Oct 1, 2016 3:27 AM in response to Mararcessz

I'm going to apologize in advance if it seems like I don't believe you all are doing everything, but I've noticed something that I don't understand as it relates to "Home" in contacts that may be creating a problem, and it would be real easy to miss. So forgive me for going step by step.

Thanks for the hint. I don't want to create a separated card only for my home as I want my actual card to be My Card in the phone so I can share it easily and use it across applications (iWork apps, etc). But I discovered that my card -the one above all the A's- was not linked properly in the iPhone Settings, so I did it and will give a try. 🙂


Also, as my iPhone is in Spanish, should I create a separate contact named "Casa"? I don't think this really is necessary if you already have your home listed inside your own card. But have it configured inside iPhone settings also does look like something that should be done. Although saving where you parked your car shouldn't be related at all related to your home address. You should be able to save your car parking spot to return to it from any other place, no matter if your home is inside a contact card or not - but it can be a bug or something else, since you managed to reproduce it and it worked for you, if course is worth giving a try! Thanks for sharing! I'll try later and report back.

Oct 1, 2016 5:34 AM in response to Carola Clavo

You are correct, and sorry for the wrong info. You DO need to associate a contact card with My Info in contacts settings, but card does not need to be titled 'Home'.


Also, playing around with all of this I was getting strange notations in my map regarding my home address. Went back to frequent locations in location history, cleared the history, and that fixed it

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