Google Maps for CarPlay In iOS 12 Available Now
09-18-2018, 02:21 PM
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That did it! Despite the fact that I just updated Google Maps about two hours ago, when I just went to App Store and searched, there was another update available. Thanks very much everyone!!
09-18-2018, 02:49 PM
#12
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Glad it's working for you!
09-18-2018, 02:50 PM
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How to replace Apple Maps with Google Maps on CarPlay
- Make sure you’re running iOS 12 on your iPhone and Google Maps version 5.0 or higher
- Open Settings
- Tap General then CarPlay
- Choose your vehicle
- Swipe to the second page of apps, tap and hold on Google Maps, and move it to the Home screen
After choosing your vehicle you can move Apple Maps to the second page of apps if you’d like. Then swipe over to see Google Maps as an option, tap, hold and slide it to the Home screen as shown below.
CarPlay will offer Waze as another navigation option, but it is still limited to a limited TestFlight private beta for now.
Full Article At 9to5Mac.com
Last edited by Nikon1; 09-18-2018 at 02:53 PM.
09-18-2018, 09:53 PM
#14
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Finally the usefulness of Carplay is catching up to its promise. I went in the car and fiddled with the interface and what I would give to have a touchscreen capabilities on that screen as well as MMI. So much twisting of that **** to move around and activate functions. Endless twisting and clicking. It would be fantastic if Audi made a running change to the B9 line to include that.
09-19-2018, 04:02 PM
#15
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Finally the usefulness of Carplay is catching up to its promise. I went in the car and fiddled with the interface and what I would give to have a touchscreen capabilities on that screen as well as MMI. So much twisting of that **** to move around and activate functions. Endless twisting and clicking. It would be fantastic if Audi made a running change to the B9 line to include that.
One cool thing is that I can run Google Maps and the MMI Nav at the same time. So I can have Google Maps on the main MMI screen and Audi NAV with Google Overlay in the virtual cockpit and turn info from Audi Nav in the HUD.
Google Maps also runs even a little smoother on the main screen than the MMI Google overlay (very slight jitter on that). Google Maps does have one slight graphic glitch - some street names seem to “shimmer” a little due to smaller font sizes.
Last edited by Jon63; 09-19-2018 at 04:28 PM.
09-19-2018, 04:33 PM
#16
AudiWorld Senior Member
Yeah, it's not the voice control, its the control of the of the other features/options like choosing a different route from the one that Google Maps primarily recommends, moving the map around, zoom in/out, etc. Those are klugey without the touchscreen option.
09-19-2018, 04:53 PM
#17
AudiWorld Member
That’s true - maybe they can turn on the touch pad functionality on the MMI controller to allow panning and selection, pinch zoom, etc., (though I doubt that will happen given the top view camera persistence still isn’t fixed). Still nice to have Google Maps and Waze for free!
09-19-2018, 07:17 PM
#18
AudiWorld Senior Member
Agreed - a touchscreen in addition to (NOT replacing) would be nice - but not really a big deal as both Google Maps and Waze (I’m in the beta) have voice control.
One cool thing is that I can run Google Maps and the MMI Nav at the same time. So I can have Google Maps on the main MMI screen and Audi NAV with Google Overlay in the virtual cockpit and turn info from Audi Nav in the HUD.
Google Maps also runs even a little smoother on the main screen than the MMI Google overlay (very slight jitter on that). Google Maps does have one slight graphic glitch - some street names seem to “shimmer” a little due to smaller font sizes.
09-20-2018, 04:27 AM
#19
AudiWorld Super User
How to replace Apple Maps with Google Maps on CarPlay
- Make sure you’re running iOS 12 on your iPhone and Google Maps version 5.0 or higher
- Open Settings
- Tap General then CarPlay
- Choose your vehicle
- Swipe to the second page of apps, tap and hold on Google Maps, and move it to the Home screen
After choosing your vehicle you can move Apple Maps to the second page of apps if you’d like. Then swipe over to see Google Maps as an option, tap, hold and slide it to the Home screen as shown below.
CarPlay will offer Waze as another navigation option, but it is still limited to a limited TestFlight private beta for now.
Full Article At 9to5Mac.com
