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Jun 5, 2018 · Announcing third-party navigation support at WWDC on Monday, Apple showed an image of the CarPlay interface with Google Maps, Google-owned Waze, and Autonavi Navigation, a Chinese app.
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Once Google Maps is running, it can provide turn-by-turn directions by voice to almost any location. First, tap the screen until you see an "Add Destination" button across the top. Once it appears, tap it.
Next, you will see a menu that lets you choose how you'd like to add a destination. Although there are six buttons here (plus a keyboard button), there are really only four basic ways to enter a destination.
•Recent searches: This shows a list of recently searched destinations you can pick from.
•Gas stations, Restaurants, Grocery stores, Coffee shops: Tapping one of these shows you to a list of nearby businesses that match the category description. You'll be able to tap the one you'd like to visit.
•Voice search: This allows you to search for a destination using your voice.
•Keyboard search: Tapping the keyboard icon in the upper-right corner of the screen allows you to search by typing in a destination name using an on-screen touch keyboard.
If you'd like to change settings in Google Maps while using CarPlay, tap your car's touch screen until you see a blue gear icon, then tap the "gear" icon.
After that, a "Settings" menu will appear.
We'll briefly go over what each option in the Settings menu does.
•Route options: This allows you to specify that you'd like to avoid highways, toll roads, or ferries while Google Maps suggests potential routes.
•Map colors: This changes the color of the Google Maps interface. The options are "Day" (a white theme), "Night" (a dark theme), or "Automatic," which automatically changes from Day or Night theme depending on time of day.
•Satellite map: This option toggles (turns on or off) satellite map imagery. This imagery shows real overhead photography of the world around you, but it consumes extra cellular data while in use and may be potentially slower to load in some locations where your cell signal is weak.
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Dec 11, 2023 · Maps, working with AutoNavi, finds routes that avoid restricted areas based on your license plate. Only information about which restrictions apply to your license plate is shared when you request a route so neither Apple nor AutoNavi can see your actual license plate, and none of this information is tied to your Apple ID. Sharing with Third Parties
- Google Maps. The Maps app from Google has become the staple navigation app for most of us. If we did not have Apple’s own Maps app forced on to us, it probably wouldn’t have had a look in.
- Waze. I personally have a soft spot to Waze. Although it is owned by Google, Waze feels quite different. Not only in its looks but how it functions too. Its unique key features are run by you and its community of users, who spend a few seconds reporting hazards on the road, marking new speed traps or police locations, through to gas station prices and much more.
- TomTom Maps. TomTom will arrive on Apple CarPlay fashionably late to the party. It is currently under beta testing with select users, and it is expected to release in early 2019.
- Magic Earth. Magic Earth closely released alongside the bigger navigation apps. Personally I had never heard of them until it popped up as a compatible CarPlay nav app.
Jun 4, 2018 · Apple announced that iOS 12 would bring third-party navigation support to Apple CarPlay and briefly displayed CarPlay's dashboard interface with new icons for Waze, Google Maps and Chinese...
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Oct 3, 2023 · Updated Oct 3, 2023. Google Maps is available as a navigation option on Apple CarPlay. Here's how to get it up and running in your car. If you aren't happy with your in-car navigation...
This is currently the only method of viewing their map in English, and is only available when the Apple device is located within China. AutoNavi previously provided mapping data to Google from 2006, although this has not been updated for some years.
