Saved favourites and past searches from your Google account is carried through to the CarPlay search screen and voice and keyboard search is there too, should you wish to manually input your destination.
After a few app updates since its first release, most bugs have been fixed, so having navigation show up on your CarPlay display, using map tiles and UI you’ve been accustomed to is as good as it is on the iPhone. Google Maps runs exactly how you would expect it to on Apple CarPlay. But since its post iOS 12 update, you can now display Google Maps on a CarPlay display in your vehicle.ĭownload the Google Maps app from the App Store then launch it by pressing its icon on the CarPlay display, or from the app icon on your iPhone screen.
If we did not have Apple’s own Maps app forced on to us, it probably wouldn’t have had a look in. The Maps app from Google has become the staple navigation app for most of us. So let’s look at the alternative navigation apps Apple Maps that are able to work on an Apple CarPlay compatible display in your vehicle. However, although similar in their functionality, certain maps apps do things better than others. Allowing the ability to customise the map tiles gives some differences between each map app as well as the traffic and route data that works behind the scenes, but other than this all map apps can easily appear to function very similarly to each other. One of the caveats to allowing third-party navigation apps on CarPlay is that Apple restricts how developers can visually show their nav app on the CarPlay display. Since then, a growing number of Apple CarPlay supported Apple CarPlay navigation apps have released, so the choice is much greater now.īut which is best for you? Well, it really depends on your own preferences and how you like to generally use your navigation app and how integrated you are with its ecosystem. Before the release of iOS 12, CarPlay owners were restricted to the stock Apple Maps app as their navigation app of choice for Apple CarPlay.
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