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There you have it; Internet public forums (or, fora, should you prefer): You have carefully noted the dozens of incorrect directions over six months at the less than 50% accuracy of Apple Maps; all of these are dutifully sent to Apple; your high-end sports car will not run CarPlay correctly and neither Apple nor the car manufacturer take responsibility; and you simply describe the problem online. Was passiert? A moronic ad hominem response. Ah, vox populi.

I have an identical problem (new Honda Clarity with CarPlay): whenever I turn on Apple Maps, it preloads a direction and a blue route. Often the destination is "home" (even if I am driving away from home), but sometimes it is a restaurant in the area. Note that I almost never used Apple Maps before the new car, so there should not be stored routes. I have used Car Play in rental cars last year, and do not recall the same problem. This is annoying because the route line is distracting (if I just want the map displayed), and the route bubble in the bottom left of the screen takes up real estate. It also results in the wrong scale being displayed. Apple Maps on the phone alone does not seem to have this issue.

(The issue of the unwanted autostart in Maps is similar to another annoyance in Car Play, that it automatically starts an audio track, either from Music or from Audible. There really should be a setting to turn off these features.)

Sorry ... Maps continues to run very poorly on CarPlay, in addition to the hyper-inaccuracy of maps, which remains and is a different issue. The steps given above are a relatively worthless reading from a basic protocol. There is communication problem between Apple CarPlay and Apple Maps: directions frequently come late, the vehicle is often placed in the wrong spot, such as a service road a quarter-mile away and I'm on the highway, instructions come to U-turn when I'm on the highway going in the proper direction, and, worst of all, instructions sometimes come too late, or even not at all, and you'll miss the highway exit. The latter just happened to me when driving to a conference in Memphis. They responsible solution, as I have emailed to Tim Cook, is to cooperate with Google and allow Google maps to work the CarPlay. ( iPhone 7 Plus, iOS 10.1.1, Verizon LTE)

Hello - I have the same general question (and agreed, CarPlay doesn't actually start the navigation, but it takes a lot of time to calculate a route to a location that I don't necessarily want to visit yet) - the point is, how do we disable the "auto-calculating route" feature?

I am really trying to like CarPlay (Ford Sync3 in the FFEP, iOS 10.2b4, iPhone 7+, AT&T) and this is one of the many little things that makes me keep going back to Sync3 (which is a surprisingly good platform). I have been focusing my time mostly with the maps experience.

I would suggest the Apple folks incorporate a few ideas from the Sync3 full screen maps view. Small details like showing the speed limit, the current road I'm on, what song is playing, etc. are some of the missing things that (currently) make Sync3 a better experience.

(I won't comment on the quality of the maps themselves; my point here is about the user experience of the system. Apple's CarPlay Maps is too sparse at the moment, with only a few POI integrations like Yelp and OpenTable; I'd like more general, basic info shown.)

No doubt. Mine keeps suggesting some bizarre web design firm whenever I'm close to home. I have never been there... yet it comes up and automatically starts navigation. I thought it was something to do with our family's shared calendar, but my wife has never heard of the place either.

It happens constantly and makes me scream obscenities about Apple - often to the chagrin of other auto-owners around me....

Good job, Apple.

"I instantly knew apple was losing its way when they messed up voicemail"

I agree with you about Apple should incorporate SYNC3 features like displaying speed limit, current road you're traveling on, as well as the song you are listening to.

I'm hopeful that by responding on these forums that Apple will read them and listen to our requests.

Cherrs

I've never had a single issue with inaccuracy. I think you're just looking for something to ***** about just because it's Apple. Yes I know they've acknowledged google is better, but that's a matter of preference.

Mine comes up with a "suggestion" for a destination that I have to clear before the map will just show my location, and then I have to re-center the map on my vehicle for it to behave. I really don't think the map integration with the car is ready for prime time. Very unlike Apple.

Same here - it takes a while to calculate some suggestion (and boy, can it be an odd suggestion to someplace I've never been) and then after I clear the suggestion I have to re-center the map each and every time. Is this a bug in the iPhone or in the vehicle? I have a 2018 Acura MDX Tech/Advanced/Entertainment.

I think the problem was not described accurately. I doubt GUIDANCE is actually beginning, but rather some destination (my home address usually) is being "pre-loaded" at bottom left, and a route calculated in the background. The result is a very significant and unacceptable delay in being able to SEE THE FREAKING MAP which is REALLY ANNOYING. Is there a way to NOT have CarPlay pre-load a destination like that? Or is it simply a built-in function we are stuck with?

In my case, I'm on a brand new Golf Alltrack, and iOS 10.3.3 (but does the iOS or car software version really affect this? I feel doubtful). I'm not sure if this happens in my 2017 Chevy Volt since I don't drive it as much.

Yup, had all these problems, plus others that I’ve mentioned: The worst is terrible geolocation, with driving directions and turn directions often coming too late. Even with a respectable 30 Mb LTE coming in.

Agree with this post, how do you turn off the "auto-calculate route"? I like CarPlay but this is annoying.

Yes, THIS is the actual problem.