iOS 13 installation complete. I got a wonderful screen when opening Maps, talking about new features.
But I'm still on old Maps. No Northeast update yet for me.
I'd give it until tomorrow morning...they wouldn't dare want those old crappy maps on those fancy new phones.
Same happened here on my iPhone.
Spent the afternoon driving around in iOS 13's CarPlay.
I'm not too happy so far.
First, here are the last two photos I took of CarPlay on iOS 12.4.1.
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So the first thing I noticed when booting up CarPlay under iOS 13 was...how busy it is. When I open Maps, as before, Maps likes to instantly give me directions to a location it *thinks* I'll want to go to. But if I'm not going there, I have to cancel the route. On iOS 12, it was as simple as selecting a big cancel button. But now it's a tiny X button.
After loading my route, Maps gives me up to three options, as always. But I much preferred the old method of selecting between the three routes. That was by selecting the big button "More Routes", and then highlighting the three route options, which were listed one under the other. Selecting a route would change the route overview on the side of the screen.
The "More Routes" button is now gone. Now you have to move the selection cursor all the way around to the right side of the map, and select the "minutes", located randomly on each route on the overview. I don't use the touch screen in my car, preferring to use the control dial to avoid smudges and fingerprints on my touch screen. This new method makes it that much harder to select between the different routes.
Another thing I don't like, is that Maps is always defaulting to the 2D view when I start the app, or when I finish a route. On iOS 12, I left it in 3D, and it would always default back to 3D. Now it's always in 2D, and I have to scroll over to the right side to change it back to 3D. That's getting annoying.
As for *good* changes...well, everything looks better. Even though I still don't have the Northeast update, the graphics overall look a bit better, with slightly more color, and the 3D buildings look a bit more defined as well. The camera also moves around a bit more smoothly than it did previously under iOS 12. Even in 3D view, POI names are appearing much more stable, and are smaller in text, so they look sharper.
But I seem to be finding more that I *dislike* about Maps in CarPlay under iOS 13 than things I *do* like.
Another setback is the zoom level at which the 3D buildings will appear while navigating in CarPlay. It's back to the early iOS 12 levels. Under iOS 12.4.1, while on a highway, buildings would appear within 0.9 miles of the next exit you need to take. On a local road, after the camera switches to a top-down view in approach to a turn, buildings would appear within 0.3 miles of your next turn. But on iOS 13, on a highway, buildings don't appear until around 0.5 miles of your exit, and on local roads, the buildings don't appear until around 600 feet from your turn.
This sucks, because I *loved* seeing the buildings while zoomed out. See my first picture at the top of the post. That looks incredible. Like driving through a miniature panorama of the city! Now we've lost it again.
Also, depending on the zoom level, the roads look very unrefined and jaggedy. Like, the road at points will look like it's separating from itself.
On iOS 11 and 12, while navigating in CarPlay, the camera view behind your arrow was a bit of an over-the-shoulder, 3/4 view. I've mentioned this before. If you switched to the route overview and then go back again, the camera would then be positioned directly behind the arrow, looking straight ahead. I didn't like that view, because it sometimes made the nearby roads look a bit weird. On iOS 13, the camera seems to default now to being directly behind the arrow. This perspective also causes road bubbles to often get cut off by the right side of the screen.
Speaking of the screen, the "next turn" box is much larger than before, as is the ETA bar on the bottom. There feels like there's less real estate for the map to shine. Which is also a shame. I kind of wish the shortcut/time bar on the left side was a bit thinner, also.
And while I haven't driven at night yet, I did drive through some long, dark tunnels enough to cause my screen to switch to night mode...and I'm not that happy with that, either! Gone are the smooth, cool blues of the former night mode. Now it's blacks and browns. Not as nice to my eyes.
My overall experience today was quite rough. It felt like my connection to Maps wasn't very strong...lots of abrupt pop ups, road labels not showing up, jaggy roads...maybe they're just having server issues with all the people downloading iOS 13 today, as well as the continued progression towards releasing the Northeast update for everyone. Perhaps the upcoming release of iOS 13.1 will fix some of these issues.
Overall, I'm disappointed. As even the Northeast update wouldn't fix a lot of these issues with the program itself.
Here are some screenshots I took this afternoon:
I opened Maps on my phone, and it decided I should be looking at the nearby river, instead of starting off where I was actually standing.
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The new default "behind the arrow" view. It also seems to orient the arrow much further to the right side of the screen than it did on iOS 12, so I don't see as much of the view to the right side of me.
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If you look just above and to the left of the left-most I-295 shield, you'll see what I mean about roads being torn apart.
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And again here, if you look further up the highway, it's very jagged and torn up before the curve.
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Spent the afternoon driving around in iOS 13's CarPlay.
I'm not too happy so far.
First, here are the last two photos I took of CarPlay on iOS 12.4.1.
View attachment 860215
View attachment 860216
So the first thing I noticed when booting up CarPlay under iOS 13 was...how busy it is. When I open Maps, as before, Maps likes to instantly give me directions to a location it *thinks* I'll want to go to. But if I'm not going there, I have to cancel the route. On iOS 12, it was as simple as selecting a big cancel button. But now it's a tiny X button.
After loading my route, Maps gives me up to three options, as always. But I much preferred the old method of selecting between the three routes. That was by selecting the big button "More Routes", and then highlighting the three route options, which were listed one under the other. Selecting a route would change the route overview on the side of the screen.
The "More Routes" button is now gone. Now you have to move the selection cursor all the way around to the right side of the map, and select the "minutes", located randomly on each route on the overview. I don't use the touch screen in my car, preferring to use the control dial to avoid smudges and fingerprints on my touch screen. This new method makes it that much harder to select between the different routes.
Another thing I don't like, is that Maps is always defaulting to the 2D view when I start the app, or when I finish a route. On iOS 12, I left it in 3D, and it would always default back to 3D. Now it's always in 2D, and I have to scroll over to the right side to change it back to 3D. That's getting annoying.
As for *good* changes...well, everything looks better. Even though I still don't have the Northeast update, the graphics overall look a bit better, with slightly more color, and the 3D buildings look a bit more defined as well. The camera also moves around a bit more smoothly than it did previously under iOS 12. Even in 3D view, POI names are appearing much more stable, and are smaller in text, so they look sharper.
But I seem to be finding more that I *dislike* about Maps in CarPlay under iOS 13 than things I *do* like.
Another setback is the zoom level at which the 3D buildings will appear while navigating in CarPlay. It's back to the early iOS 12 levels. Under iOS 12.4.1, while on a highway, buildings would appear within 0.9 miles of the next exit you need to take. On a local road, after the camera switches to a top-down view in approach to a turn, buildings would appear within 0.3 miles of your next turn. But on iOS 13, on a highway, buildings don't appear until around 0.5 miles of your exit, and on local roads, the buildings don't appear until around 600 feet from your turn.
This sucks, because I *loved* seeing the buildings while zoomed out. See my first picture at the top of the post. That looks incredible. Like driving through a miniature panorama of the city! Now we've lost it again.
Also, depending on the zoom level, the roads look very unrefined and jaggedy. Like, the road at points will look like it's separating from itself.
On iOS 11 and 12, while navigating in CarPlay, the camera view behind your arrow was a bit of an over-the-shoulder, 3/4 view. I've mentioned this before. If you switched to the route overview and then go back again, the camera would then be positioned directly behind the arrow, looking straight ahead. I didn't like that view, because it sometimes made the nearby roads look a bit weird. On iOS 13, the camera seems to default now to being directly behind the arrow. This perspective also causes road bubbles to often get cut off by the right side of the screen.
Speaking of the screen, the "next turn" box is much larger than before, as is the ETA bar on the bottom. There feels like there's less real estate for the map to shine. Which is also a shame. I kind of wish the shortcut/time bar on the left side was a bit thinner, also.
And while I haven't driven at night yet, I did drive through some long, dark tunnels enough to cause my screen to switch to night mode...and I'm not that happy with that, either! Gone are the smooth, cool blues of the former night mode. Now it's blacks and browns. Not as nice to my eyes.
My overall experience today was quite rough. It felt like my connection to Maps wasn't very strong...lots of abrupt pop ups, road labels not showing up, jaggy roads...maybe they're just having server issues with all the people downloading iOS 13 today, as well as the continued progression towards releasing the Northeast update for everyone. Perhaps the upcoming release of iOS 13.1 will fix some of these issues.
Overall, I'm disappointed. As even the Northeast update wouldn't fix a lot of these issues with the program itself.
Here are some screenshots I took this afternoon:
I opened Maps on my phone, and it decided I should be looking at the nearby river, instead of starting off where I was actually standing.
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Note the photo below. No buildings showing, even as I'm approaching a turn. On iOS 12.4.1, buildings would always be showing in this top down view. Now they don't appear until around 600 feet from the turn.
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The new default "behind the arrow" view. It also seems to orient the arrow much further to the right side of the screen than it did on iOS 12, so I don't see as much of the view to the right side of me.
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If you look just above and to the left of the left-most I-295 shield, you'll see what I mean about roads being torn apart.
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And again here, if you look further up the highway, it's very jagged and torn up before the curve.
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