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We’ve had our Lightning a year and a half. My wife and I both have Apple iPhones. We’re usually both in the truck. Both phones have been connected to SYNC. Usually I’m driving, and my phone is connected and CarPlay is enabled.
Every couple of minutes there’s a banner message on SYNC saying “CarPlay is available on <wife-name>’s iPhone”. Sometimes it reappears almost instantly after disappearing resulting in a “flashing banner” effect.
For the driver, this is an annoying distraction popping up over and over. There are other important popups and banners that the driver needs to see e.g. to help navigate.
If I touch the little link in the banner then it connects her iPhone to CarPlay and disconnects mine… which is a problem when I’m using Apple Map in carplay for directions because now my map is not on SYNC.
There were times early on when she was driving and I was passenger and my phone was active for carplay but she’s using the SYNC navigation and listening to FM radio. In this scenario if I unlock my phone then my phone, via carplay, hijacks the SYNC display showing Apple Map (current location NO navigation), starts Apple Music playing the album that I was listening to while mowing the yard a few days ago.
We learned early on that only the driver should have Carplay connected. Apple iPhone CarPlay is like Highlander, "There can be only one."
Can’t SYNC and Apple just shut up about CarPlay? My wife and I are generally tech savvy and smart enough to use the menu to force the phone connection we want. After a year and a half we don’t need constant reminder banner popups that a different phone from the one currently active via CarPlay is also capable of connecting via Carplay.
This banner is a “beginner” features that some engineer ["The Inmates Are Running the Asylum"] put in for SYNC/CarPlay newbies. Like all beginner features, the need disappears just like a person’s lap disappears when they stand up on their own two feet. Like nearly all beginner features, it is annoying as soon as the “new” wears off.
There are multiple paths to get to the phone list from the main SYNC screen. We all had to go to the Phone List to add our phone the first time we got the truck. We can readily use the phone list to swap which phone is connected via Carplay when we switch drivers. We don’t need incessant banner reminders that the other phones in the vehicle are Carplay available.
I say, "CarPlay, I know what to do. Leave me alone. Stop nagging."
Every couple of minutes there’s a banner message on SYNC saying “CarPlay is available on <wife-name>’s iPhone”. Sometimes it reappears almost instantly after disappearing resulting in a “flashing banner” effect.
For the driver, this is an annoying distraction popping up over and over. There are other important popups and banners that the driver needs to see e.g. to help navigate.
If I touch the little link in the banner then it connects her iPhone to CarPlay and disconnects mine… which is a problem when I’m using Apple Map in carplay for directions because now my map is not on SYNC.
There were times early on when she was driving and I was passenger and my phone was active for carplay but she’s using the SYNC navigation and listening to FM radio. In this scenario if I unlock my phone then my phone, via carplay, hijacks the SYNC display showing Apple Map (current location NO navigation), starts Apple Music playing the album that I was listening to while mowing the yard a few days ago.
We learned early on that only the driver should have Carplay connected. Apple iPhone CarPlay is like Highlander, "There can be only one."
Can’t SYNC and Apple just shut up about CarPlay? My wife and I are generally tech savvy and smart enough to use the menu to force the phone connection we want. After a year and a half we don’t need constant reminder banner popups that a different phone from the one currently active via CarPlay is also capable of connecting via Carplay.
This banner is a “beginner” features that some engineer ["The Inmates Are Running the Asylum"] put in for SYNC/CarPlay newbies. Like all beginner features, the need disappears just like a person’s lap disappears when they stand up on their own two feet. Like nearly all beginner features, it is annoying as soon as the “new” wears off.
There are multiple paths to get to the phone list from the main SYNC screen. We all had to go to the Phone List to add our phone the first time we got the truck. We can readily use the phone list to swap which phone is connected via Carplay when we switch drivers. We don’t need incessant banner reminders that the other phones in the vehicle are Carplay available.
I say, "CarPlay, I know what to do. Leave me alone. Stop nagging."
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