Carplay, Apple Maps and Waze

I have already sent messages to all channels suggested in the last one year and a half. I didn’t get any answer. Many

other people did the same and got no answers too.

I simply don’t care what you think about. I just want to use a navigation app in my Apple CarPlay, it doesn’t matter if it’s Apple Maps, Waze or Google Maps. Just like that. So, as giving no answers is Apple’s way of doing things, many people like me are buying Android phones and Apple’s market share in Brazil decreased 50% in 2 years.

Congrats, you are doing a wonderful job!...

The information in Brazilian media is different. Anyway, better than reading would be answering for sure, besides giving us alternatives to use the iPhone with Apple CarPlay at the same level Android users can do. Imagine leaving in a country like Brazil and driving with no GPS, unless you buy an Android phone or have it resident in the multimedia.

This is the point. And Apple has to give an answer for that. A real good one.

Yes. apple is not allowing 3rd party navigation maps. I have bought a car with smartphone support only without gps, and I´m navigation only with the smartphone connected by CarPlay.

I'm a long time apple user. apple have the time to permit google maps and Waze on CarPlay until I buy the new phone. if that is not available at that time I simply buy the new samsung galaxy. as simple as that. that will be my primary concern on the new smartphone.

Oh Merlin... As you can see, there are at least 650+ users with the very same issue. By end 2015, I switched the original unit in my Jeep to an aftermarket Kenwood brand new model with both CarPlay and AndroidAuto... of course, nothing other than the awful maps app, not showing anything important (no PoIs, no traffic!!! which is so darn important). I bought a second phone (the Samsung Galaxy S8+ just to see Waze in the Kenwood unit and I was so disappointed when Waze didn't show... until mid-late 2017, after an update you can choose for maps either using Google Maps or Waze). Still, the Android Auto interface is very poor and I have been using iPhones since 2008... It is so hard to let them go. Now, I have just bought a Volvo XC60 and again both I can use CarPlay and AndroidAuto (CarPlay shows WhatsApp now, not very useful though), but I don't think Apple will concede to have a 3rd party maps app. Worst thing is that Volvo has its own GPS... again, no traffic, no best possible route selection.

The only way to have Waze in CarPlay is by jailbreaking your iPhone. That is something I will never do. But not being alone in this kind of problem, should bring the attention of Apple... Isn't it all about us YOUR LOYAL CUSTOMERS??? Apple would not be what it is if it weren't for us, so Apple pls listen to our voice.

Congrats on the Mercedes GLA. I have a '16 Toyota that uses Scout as a navigator through your phone. Not very pleased with it, as it only has turn by turn instructions which seem to be fairy accurate. As for Apple maps, a new local major road that opened several months ago is not updated - but is updated in Waze and Google maps. It seems like the Apple maps is an app on the back burner. Google and Waze are so much better! Almost want to go out and buy a pixel 2 as an upgrade to my iPhone 6. I also join in the consensus so far that Apple should invest in their map app or use a 3rd party.

In addition to what you've mentioned, I'm in Brazil and Apple don't have turn-by-turn GPS available here yet. So carplay does not cover this basic function here at all.

Shame on Apple. you're pushing me to "try" an Android now. Can you imagine having WAZE on my car's multimedia screen!?

Today I took a look on the samsung S9+. I Loved it.... phone is great. my iPhone 7 seems 10 years old at his side. and works with Waze on my car. I´m so much closer to switch to a samsung after so many years on apple.

The Human Interface Guidelines are just that. Guidelines for designing the interface of apps to run on CarPlay. They are not rules for what type of apps are allowed.

I can confirm that Apple don't allow 3rd party navigation apps on CarPlay. There is no API to create nav apps on CarPlay

this is not an alternative. when you open other apps on the carplay menu it switches away from Waze on the iphone screen. the map of waze is far more useful than the audio guidance!

Yeah, have to agree that Google maps is also more accurate. We have a new road opened last fall and it still doesn't show up in maps but it does in the Google app.

Hey,I heard (not tried myself) that upgrading iphone with Cynthia allows that. I haven't tried myself but will try with some older iphone.

apple map really inaccurate

lane guide always wrong, map direction always wrong

force me to buy an pixel to use carplay, so can use google map and waze

really apple?

That hasn't been my experience at all.

Car play has zero value without Waze... Unfortunately.

All other: Calls, music work perfectly without car play. And you do not have to PLUG the CABLE...