Roger Fingas
On Monday, Waze for iOS updated with support for CarPlay, becoming just the second app to take advantage of third-party navigation support introduced in iOS 12.
The Waze interface for CarPlay supports many of the same options as the standard iPhone version, including the ability to report traffic, accidents, police, and hazards like ice or flooding. It also offers voice search, though this must be triggered in-app instead of via Siri.
Some other options include the ability to use day and night modes at any hour, and change the graphic used to represent your car.
The first third-party navigation app to adopt CarPlay was another Google property, Maps, but there are differences between the two. Only Waze, for instance, has reporting features and an assortment of guidance voices.
Waze is a free download, and runs on iPhones with iOS 9 or later. CarPlay requires not just iOS 12 but a compatible dash interface.
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This is good news.
Not an Uber or Lyft Driver, but I'm sure it would be useful for them have the app run in CarPlay, so they don't put their phone in a cradle on their dash.
We will still need to have our phone out as we need to control the Lyft and Uber apps. Also if we use Lyft and Uber's builtin navagation, like I do it doesn't show up on the dash. If we want the navagation to show up on the dash we need to link our apps to an exturnal map like Google or Waze and I don't do that as it takes too load to loud the maps vs alsmo instant using their builtin navagation.
For those wondering why Sygic or TomTom haven’t appeared on Apple CarPlay (I’m not a programmer or coder so bear with my very brief theory), I believe that the fact that the maps are stored on the phone and are not web based means a different programming protocol is needed to allow the app to work with CarPlay. Sygic’s Facebook and Twitter feeds say the app is in the review phase and should be released soon. TomTom says their app won’t be released until early next year.