Hey #Apple peeps! Today I have questions about #CarPlay after the fact. If you have done this, which head unit did you get? If it was DIY, was it a pain? If you did it today, would you get the same thing?
Parameters: Its a 2012 Outback so I want to spend enough $ to get something reliable but not so much I "wasted money" on it when the car's life ends.
No backup cameras/assistants (it'd be nice to add that someday but not today)
Steering wheel controls I'd like to keep.
Current stereo:
Oh, today is my 8th anniversary of working on Mastodon. I was 23 when I started, finishing my last year of university, still living at my parent's place. I had no idea what I was getting myself into or that it would consume the next 8 years of my life almost completely.
The latest news, software updates and launches (#CarPlay for @homeassistant!), a spotlight on #PiAlert - a network monitoring tool, and more in this week's self-hosted recap!
I’ve started encountering the weirdest CarPlay bug. The other day I could hear voice directions from Apple Maps, but I couldn’t get the Apple Music or podcast apps to play audio.
Today during my drive, everything was fine until 10 minutes in when I used CarPlay Siri to set a reminder. After that I was back to no audio in music or podcasts.
@ns@daringfireball The #Tesla touchscreen isn’t integrated with the dashboard. It literally sticks out and there is no steering wheel instrument cluster. You have to take your eyes off the road just to monitor your speed!
The 2024 #CarPlay instrument cluster is emphatically not a touchscreen. You don't fiddle with it, and it's in your line of sight while driving.
The alternative to your “screens everywhere is dated" is not "one unsafe eyesore of a screen.”
Last week, a GM rep claimed that they removed CarPlay and Android Auto integration because they're just so unreliable that people have to just look at their phones while driving. This is absurd nonsense, but this reviewer's experience with GM's first no-CarPlay vehicle shows that it is actually GM that has this problem, not CarPlay or Android Auto.
@jameshubbard@waldoj Can confirm that the #CarPlay in my wife’s past two GMC SUVs has been just as janky, sometimes requiring the same power-cycling of #iPhone and/or car. Or sometimes the car’s info screen would be inexplicably blank with nothing connected yet. Other times the rear-view camera display wouldn’t activate.
#GeneralMotors’ infotainment systems are just plain buggy and I anticipate them remaining so regardless of smartphone compatibility.
I have BUDGET for more Features at #iMore this month!
From #CarPlay to #accessibility, #gaming and everything #iPhone, it's $150 minimum for 600 words, but it can be higher.
Would love to hear from new voices too, #LGBTQ+ and #POC especially!
In my recent two week trip I gave #OrganicMaps 2023.09.22-20 a try. I ran it on an iPhone13 Pro running iOS 16.7.1 connected to a 2022 Honda CR-V EX. Much of my driving was through places with no mobile coverage, including places where I needed to enter a new route. I also used google maps some of the time. For the price I paid ($0, no surveillance) it was a great product. In many cases, it was much better than #GoogleMaps. 1/
The primary reason that I often used Google Maps instead of #OrganicMaps was that I couldn't get the #CarPlay display out of dark mode. Most of my driving was during the day and this made it impossible to see much more than the road on my route. This is particularly problematic when trying to figure out which of the several possible turns in a small area is the right one. Setting Night Mode to off had no effect. Neither did moving my phone into the sun. 2/
Ich weiß nicht, ob das schon immer so war, aber seit iOS 17 kann man mit einem Tipp auf die Wegbeschreibung die Sprachausgabe ein- oder ausschalten. #Apple#carplay#ios17
As Apple moves to assimilate all of your physical items into the iPhone, the number of vehicles compatible with Car Key keeps growing. Here's what Car Key actually does.
Apple Car Key: What it is and why it's useful for drivers (appleinsider.com)
As Apple moves to assimilate all of your physical items into the iPhone, the number of vehicles compatible with Car Key keeps growing. Here's what Car Key actually does.
Drive into the Future with the Best Apple CarPlay Head Units (www.roadandtrack.com)
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Car owners are frustrated with infotainment confusion, so GM is taking away the most popular solutions (9to5mac.com)
In case you missed it, GM is planning to ditch CarPlay in all of its future EVs starting next year....