Experience after 4000km w¡ith Beta 4.3.1 and CarPLay

Lluis Arasanz

First of all, please excuse the language. I used Google Translate to better express what I want to explain, as English is not my native language.

During this holiday I made a trip of more than 4000km in a vehicle with CarPlay, through roads in France, Italy, Austria and Germany. Especially in Austria, there were mountain roads in the Alps with little coverage. Since I have been "co-pilot" for a long time, I have had many opportunities to evaluate the Next Beta 4.3.1 Application. Here is my experience.

I have found myself on multiple occasions with a position offset of the cursor with the Track line. It would not be anything 'important' if it were not that at the time of automatic zoom, practically any reference on the map disappears.

This happens either on the phone or on the CarPlay screen, and even on both at the same time
The way to fix it is to disconnect CarPlay and reconnect it again, but on several occasions I have had to kill the App on the phone to reload it again. Next Beta 4.3.1 was working simultaneously with RadarBot.

I have also found that when I lost the internet connection, the screen went quite crazy, not jumping to the offline maps that were previously downloaded. I had to activate offline navigation manually, but then the route calculation and the distances to the WayPoints were different, as if it were not done correctly.
I could not determine, although I do think it is related, that at the moment of losing internet, is when the problems appeared

I have made some contributions to the Beta through TestFlight, so you will have some additional data.

When I got home, and without CarPlay, I didn't notice these problems, even on a road with poor coverage and some areas of shadow.

As an additional comment, I would like the data that appears on CarPlay to be as similar as possible to the phone. On the phone the information is almost perfect, but on CarPlay it leaves something to be desired, both in terms of presentation and operation. If this can be fixed, it will be a great milestone!

Keep working, you're doing very well.

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Lluis Arasanz

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Peter Schiefer

@Lluis-Arasanz
Lluis,
I was also 3 weeks close to Bordeaux and was there just between two beta releases and main changes.
Regard to CarPlay but also for AA, both Apple and Google have restriction in their presentation perhaps with the various screens on cars and driver safety. MRA cannot do so much. Me I want the pictogram and distance of next shaping point or POI on the CP Display at the right upper corner too.

There ar for me as car driver some other concerns, especially with verbal announcements and the rules for it and problems when thy are perhaps in close sequence.
MRA say best Navigation App for all, they include a camper mode, but
it seems their main goal is bikers first. Car drivers more reacting to verbal instructions because the map is not direct in line with the view, is perhaps another user than bikers, using the phone or meanwhile a CarPlay/AA rugged tablett direkt or close to the middle of the handle bar above the buke clusters may not so often linked to sound in a helmet. Whereby those who use a CP/AA tablett habe the same problems with reduced data an the screen.

But by all concerns, I came from the 8“ CP display in my cabrio now back home to the 14“ Diplays of the Ford Sync 4. The new colortheme Wong is on this big sharp Ford Display am exciting hammer feature.