Using Waze on Apple Car Play on MME

[lweisenthal]

I really do love the Ford navigation app. Nice clean display. But what I like about Waze is the way I can instantly calculate drive times using either (1) "free" lanes and (2) toll lanes. I'm talking about the ultra notorious 91 toll lanes, which range in cost to me from about $4.50 to about $31.50. I need to make instantaneous decision: do I get into the extreme left lane to take the toll road or do I stay in the "free" lanes? Waze provides the choice between toll lanes vs free lanes. I keep it set at free lanes. I know that, absent congestion, my trip should average 60 MPH. Mile a minute. So if Waze projects my drive time at 90 minutes, rather than 60 minutes, then that's when I want to shell out $$ for the toll lanes.

In my experience with a number of rental cars, Waze worked just as well with their Apple Car Play (and I never rent a car which doesn't have Apple Car Play) as it does with the Apple Car Play on my Chevy Volt (brilliant vehicle, now discontinued).

But when my MME displays Waze on the MME version of Apple Car Play, I get a drastically truncated version. Doesn't even display basic information, like miles to destination and estimated time to destination (which is what I really need to make my decision).

This is actually my one and only complaint about my new MME. In the most important respects, the car has totally blown me away - exceeding what had already been high expectations.

- Larry Weisenthal/Huntington Beach

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[jhalkias]

I really do love the Ford navigation app. Nice clean display. But what I like about Waze is the way I can instantly calculate drive times using either (1) "free" lanes and (2) toll lanes. I'm talking about the ultra notorious 91 toll lanes, which range in cost to me from about $4.50 to about $31.50. I need to make instantaneous decision: do I get into the extreme left lane to take the toll road or do I stay in the "free" lanes? Waze provides the choice between toll lanes vs free lanes. I keep it set at free lanes. I know that, absent congestion, my trip should average 60 MPH. Mile a minute. So if Waze projects my drive time at 90 minutes, rather than 60 minutes, then that's when I want to shell out $$ for the toll lanes.

In my experience with a number of rental cars, Waze worked just as well with their Apple Car Play (and I never rent a car which doesn't have Apple Car Play) as it does with the Apple Car Play on my Chevy Volt (brilliant vehicle, now discontinued).

But when my MME displays Waze on the MME version of Apple Car Play, I get a drastically truncated version. Doesn't even display basic information, like miles to destination and estimated time to destination (which is what I really need to make my decision).

This is actually my one and only complaint about my new MME. In the most important respects, the car has totally blown me away - exceeding what had already been high expectations.

- Larry Weisenthal/Huntington Beach

I use Waze Daily in the Mach E. It shows my estimated arrival time and miles to destination. Are you using the full view, or the view in CarPlay where you see more than one application? I tend to use the full view. You can change views by tapping on the grid in the lower left.

-John W. Halkias/North Canton

 

[back_at_it_19]

I use Waze Daily in the Mach E. It shows my estimated arrival time and miles to destination. Are you using the full view, or the view in CarPlay where you see more than one application? I tend to use the full view. You can change views by tapping on the grid in the lower left.

-John W. Halkias/North Canton

Whew. Good to hear. MME any day now and I need Waze for exactly the same issue - toll lanes or not.

 

[generaltso]

Tolls for certain lanes on the same road? Egad! I've never heard of such barbarity!

 

[Mach-Finn]

But when my MME displays Waze on the MME version of Apple Car Play, I get a drastically truncated version.

There always this way to access content without restrictions:
https://www.macheforum.com/site/thr...ch-videos-etc-on-the-mach-e-sync-screen.2775/

 

[back_at_it_19]

Tolls for certain lanes on the same road? Egad! I've never heard of such barbarity!

Ikr. Usually worth every penny to me but $ varies depending on traffic.

 

[generaltso]

Ikr. Usually worth every penny to me but $ varies depending on traffic.

I guess I must not travel to the right places. In Vermont, there's no such thing as tolls.........or traffic.

 

[ChasingCoral]

I really do love the Ford navigation app. Nice clean display. But what I like about Waze is the way I can instantly calculate drive times using either (1) "free" lanes and (2) toll lanes. I'm talking about the ultra notorious 91 toll lanes, which range in cost to me from about $4.50 to about $31.50. I need to make instantaneous decision: do I get into the extreme left lane to take the toll road or do I stay in the "free" lanes? Waze provides the choice between toll lanes vs free lanes. I keep it set at free lanes. I know that, absent congestion, my trip should average 60 MPH. Mile a minute. So if Waze projects my drive time at 90 minutes, rather than 60 minutes, then that's when I want to shell out $$ for the toll lanes.

In my experience with a number of rental cars, Waze worked just as well with their Apple Car Play (and I never rent a car which doesn't have Apple Car Play) as it does with the Apple Car Play on my Chevy Volt (brilliant vehicle, now discontinued).

But when my MME displays Waze on the MME version of Apple Car Play, I get a drastically truncated version. Doesn't even display basic information, like miles to destination and estimated time to destination (which is what I really need to make my decision).

This is actually my one and only complaint about my new MME. In the most important respects, the car has totally blown me away - exceeding what had already been high expectations.

- Larry Weisenthal/Huntington Beach

This was a disappointment to me as well. I was hoping for a full Waze experience on my main screen. What I often do now is kill Apple Car Play, run Waze on my phone for background information on obstacles, accidents or speed traps (you could use it for route time comparisons). I then navigate using the Ford Navigation.

 

[lweisenthal]

I use Waze Daily in the Mach E. It shows my estimated arrival time and miles to destination. Are you using the full view, or the view in CarPlay where you see more than one application? I tend to use the full view. You can change views by tapping on the grid in the lower left.

-John W. Halkias/North Canton

Thank you! I was hoping there was a solution. That's just great.

 

[GoGoGadgetMachE]

I really do love the Ford navigation app. Nice clean display. But what I like about Waze is the way I can instantly calculate drive times using either (1) "free" lanes and (2) toll lanes. I'm talking about the ultra notorious 91 toll lanes, which range in cost to me from about $4.50 to about $31.50. I need to make instantaneous decision: do I get into the extreme left lane to take the toll road or do I stay in the "free" lanes? Waze provides the choice between toll lanes vs free lanes. I keep it set at free lanes. I know that, absent congestion, my trip should average 60 MPH. Mile a minute. So if Waze projects my drive time at 90 minutes, rather than 60 minutes, then that's when I want to shell out $$ for the toll lanes.

In my experience with a number of rental cars, Waze worked just as well with their Apple Car Play (and I never rent a car which doesn't have Apple Car Play) as it does with the Apple Car Play on my Chevy Volt (brilliant vehicle, now discontinued).

But when my MME displays Waze on the MME version of Apple Car Play, I get a drastically truncated version. Doesn't even display basic information, like miles to destination and estimated time to destination (which is what I really need to make my decision).

This is actually my one and only complaint about my new MME. In the most important respects, the car has totally blown me away - exceeding what had already been high expectations.

- Larry Weisenthal/Huntington Beach

sorry I'm trying to get the main point out of this - you're saying that Waze on CarPlay in the Mach-E displays differently than it does in other cars?

 

[lweisenthal]

This was a disappointment to me as well. I was hoping for a full Waze experience on my main screen. What I often do now is kill Apple Car Play, run Waze on my phone for background information on obstacles, accidents or speed traps (you could use it for route time comparisons). I then navigate using the Ford Navigation.

Don't know if you caught this most helpful reply:

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I use Waze Daily in the Mach E. It shows my estimated arrival time and miles to destination. Are you using the full view, or the view in CarPlay where you see more than one application? I tend to use the full view. You can change views by tapping on the grid in the lower left.

-John W. Halkias/North Canton

>>>>>

 

[jhalkias]

This was a disappointment to me as well. I was hoping for a full Waze experience on my main screen. What I often do now is kill Apple Car Play, run Waze on my phone for background information on obstacles, accidents or speed traps (you could use it for route time comparisons). I then navigate using the Ford Navigation.

sorry I'm trying to get the main point out of this - you're saying that Waze on CarPlay in the Mach-E displays differently than it does in other cars?

Now I am confused too . . . in 15 minutes I will jump in the car and try to see what I am missing that I did not know I was missing.

 

[jhalkias]

Don't know if you caught this most helpful reply:

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I use Waze Daily in the Mach E. It shows my estimated arrival time and miles to destination. Are you using the full view, or the view in CarPlay where you see more than one application? I tend to use the full view. You can change views by tapping on the grid in the lower left.

-John W. Halkias/North Canton

>>>>>

And was that the issue for you? Did that give you what you thought you were missing?

 

[mixduptransistor]

sorry I'm trying to get the main point out of this - you're saying that Waze on CarPlay in the Mach-E displays differently than it does in other cars?

I think an earlier reply answered why Waze was significantly different in his Mach E, but, CarPlay isn't 100% identical in every car. There are multiple size classes and display shapes (not to mention hardware buttons vs. touch screen) that carmakers can use. I suspect the Sync 4A version of CarPlay is at least as good as what he would've had in a Volt, but overall the Carplay experience can vary, sometimes significantly, from car to car

 

[lweisenthal]

sorry I'm trying to get the main point out of this - you're saying that Waze on CarPlay in the Mach-E displays differently than it does in other cars?

Yes; it did display differently. Analogy would be displaying 16:9 on 4:3 video. But I was informed that I was not using an available "full view" display, which can reportedly be accessed by "tapping on the grid on the lower left."

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