mporange

Q: 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

Close

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

  • All replies
  • Helpful answers

first Previous Page 4 of 5 last Next
  • by tim_oshea,

    tim_oshea tim_oshea Sep 30, 2016 2:34 AM in response to mporange
    Level 1 (4 points)
    iLife
    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)

  • by maciej118,

    maciej118 maciej118 Sep 30, 2016 2:40 AM in response to tim_oshea
    Level 1 (9 points)
    Sep 30, 2016 2:40 AM in response to tim_oshea

    Hi Tim, I did exactly the same, and results are the same, which is not working feature...

  • by Carola Clavo,

    Carola Clavo Carola Clavo Sep 30, 2016 7:43 AM in response to mporange
    Level 1 (61 points)
    Notebooks
    Sep 30, 2016 7:43 AM in response to mporange

    After trying everything suggested in this topic it didn't still work. But surprisingly it started working in Waze app. They have had this same feature for s while on the iOS version but it never worked for me either. But now it works and I can see a piN with a car icon in it. So I'll use Waze or ParkBuddy while Apple fixes their feature. 

  • by Ralph9430,

    Ralph9430 Ralph9430 Sep 30, 2016 8:01 AM in response to mporange
    Level 6 (18,197 points)
    Apple Watch
    Sep 30, 2016 8:01 AM in response to mporange

    Have you checked "Show Parked Location" in the Settings app to make sure it is turned on?

     

    Settings > Maps > Your Car > Turn on Show Parked Location

  • by mporange,

    mporange mporange Sep 30, 2016 8:04 AM in response to Ralph9430
    Level 1 (22 points)
    iPhone
    Sep 30, 2016 8:04 AM in response to Ralph9430

    Yes.

  • by Simon@SMHarrison.com,

    Simon@SMHarrison.com Simon@SMHarrison.com Sep 30, 2016 12:39 PM in response to mporange
    Level 1 (4 points)
    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!

  • by maciej118,

    maciej118 maciej118 Sep 30, 2016 9:24 PM in response to Simon@SMHarrison.com
    Level 1 (9 points)
    Sep 30, 2016 9:24 PM in response to Simon@SMHarrison.com

    I have recently noticed that my iPhone doesn't write and show any frequent locations. It shows purple arrow but after almost 2 weeks my history is clear and empty. Maybe this is the cause of missing parked car feature.

  • by Carola Clavo,

    Carola Clavo Carola Clavo Oct 1, 2016 3:27 AM in response to Simon@SMHarrison.com
    Level 1 (61 points)
    Notebooks
    Oct 1, 2016 3:27 AM in response to Simon@SMHarrison.com

    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.

  • by Simon@SMHarrison.com,

    Simon@SMHarrison.com Simon@SMHarrison.com Oct 1, 2016 5:34 AM in response to Carola Clavo
    Level 1 (4 points)
    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

  • by Carola Clavo,

    Carola Clavo Carola Clavo Oct 1, 2016 5:58 AM in response to Simon@SMHarrison.com
    Level 1 (61 points)
    Notebooks
    Oct 1, 2016 5:58 AM in response to Simon@SMHarrison.com

    Thanks! I tried again, and works in waze, I didn't do anything and my parking spot was saved after going away.  But I didn't get any notification for the Apple feature. I think it may have to do something with the Bluetooth brand or chipset.

  • by Simon@SMHarrison.com,

    Simon@SMHarrison.com Simon@SMHarrison.com Oct 1, 2016 8:33 AM in response to Carola Clavo
    Level 1 (4 points)
    Oct 1, 2016 8:33 AM in response to Carola Clavo

    Does the parked car show on the map?

     

    The only notification is if I put the map destinations widget in the notification screen. I don't get banners.

  • by Carola Clavo,

    Carola Clavo Carola Clavo Oct 1, 2016 8:56 AM in response to Simon@SMHarrison.com
    Level 1 (61 points)
    Notebooks
    Oct 1, 2016 8:56 AM in response to Simon@SMHarrison.com

    There is nothing. It works in Waze, though. So I'll use Waze until there is a next update. I thought maybe in my country the feature was not enabled but a friend of mine uses his Bluetooth and iPhone just fine in his car, he did nothing special to enable this. I could reset my whole phone and settings but it's not worth the effort as long as it works in another app, so I surrender! Thanks for your advice. I'm subscribed to the topic so maybe something comes up or some of us fixes it in a new way.

  • by iphone32gb,

    iphone32gb iphone32gb Oct 1, 2016 10:57 AM in response to Simon@SMHarrison.com
    Level 1 (19 points)
    iPhone
    Oct 1, 2016 10:57 AM in response to Simon@SMHarrison.com

    Tried all of the suggestions, still won't work. Just in Apple Store and they are stumped as well.

  • by tim_oshea,

    tim_oshea tim_oshea Oct 1, 2016 2:08 PM in response to iphone32gb
    Level 1 (4 points)
    iLife
    Oct 1, 2016 2:08 PM in response to iphone32gb

    I too tried all these but with no joy. Also tried (at apple support request) turning off Parked Car on my sons phone to see if This made mine work.

     

    Sent from my iPad

  • by Pa69olo,

    Pa69olo Pa69olo Oct 2, 2016 12:59 AM in response to mporange
    Level 1 (4 points)
    iPhone
    Oct 2, 2016 12:59 AM in response to mporange

    APPLE WHERE ARE YOU, FIX THE BUG!!!

first Previous Page 4 of 5 last Next