Just wanted to run this by you all in case I missed something. Right now I have my centre screen on my civic and I have my phone mounted right beside my steering wheel. When I use Waze that puts the screen exactly where I need it. Using a map on the centre console is really quite far for my eyes to be looking if I need to glance at some information. What is even worse is that the iPhone screen shows the upcoming instructions on the phone screen. While this may seem good, because its next to my steering wheel, its what I glance at. This is a problem because the top item only shows the last set of directions. It doesn't update. So if a street is 10 km away, it will always say 10km away instead of changing as we get closer, making it literally useless.
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Two things I Think would be amazing:
1. CarPlay has a simple features where you can "lock" any CarPlay app to your phone screen. So this would mean that if I locked my map to that screen, then no matter what I clicked on the other screen, it wouldn't change on the phone. This would be very convenient for having things like podcast info on the other screen, or just listening to the radio and having the radio information on that screen.
2. In certain situations like "maps" it would be great to have the option to swap which screen is the parent screen. So with maps it could push the upcoming directions to the main console and leave the maps on the phone showing.
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Anyways, just some thoughts. Because its not integrated like above I may have to stop using care play altogether because if I have waze open and I click on anything on my console in the car, Waze will close. So its kinda annoying - The other option is to use maps, but then maps won't actually show on my phone and instead shows on the centre console to far from my eyes. I don't think Apple has quite figured out this CarPlay thing. Its not bad but its just easier to use my phone without integrating it on the main console screen.
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Two things I Think would be amazing:
1. CarPlay has a simple features where you can "lock" any CarPlay app to your phone screen. So this would mean that if I locked my map to that screen, then no matter what I clicked on the other screen, it wouldn't change on the phone. This would be very convenient for having things like podcast info on the other screen, or just listening to the radio and having the radio information on that screen.
2. In certain situations like "maps" it would be great to have the option to swap which screen is the parent screen. So with maps it could push the upcoming directions to the main console and leave the maps on the phone showing.
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Anyways, just some thoughts. Because its not integrated like above I may have to stop using care play altogether because if I have waze open and I click on anything on my console in the car, Waze will close. So its kinda annoying - The other option is to use maps, but then maps won't actually show on my phone and instead shows on the centre console to far from my eyes. I don't think Apple has quite figured out this CarPlay thing. Its not bad but its just easier to use my phone without integrating it on the main console screen.