![]() When using BMW Apple CarPlay, text messages can be sent and received safely without taking your eyes off the road. Messaging and communication is another area where CarPlay excels, thanks to its built-in Siri support. It also has a better understanding of highways, to make sure you’re in the right lane heading into your exit. TomTom’s maps are packed with detail, which can make it much easier to get your bearings in complicated intersections. ‘Premium’, of course, stands for ‘not free,’ so you’re going to need to pay $5 a month for the privilege of using it. Less popular among CarPlay navigation apps is TomTom GO, a self-declared premium navigation app. For many people, that alone is enough reason to go for Waze while driving. Whichever app you use, you’re going to get pretty much the same data sourced from the users of both.īut Waze’s interface is still ‘driver-first’ while Google Maps caters just as well to navigation on foot or by transit. Many of Waze’s standout features have been absorbed into Google Maps – traffic information, turn-by-turn navigation and more. Want to have the latest BMW maps for your region? Try out our simple USB coding. To keep your native BMW navigation accurate at all times, it’s best to perform a BMW map update every six months. Sure, BMW’s navigation maps include points of interest and real-time traffic information, but not to the same extent, or as accurately, as Google Maps. If only one of those two went well, you can bet your bottom dollar it wasn’t the BMW nav ) With Google’s extra map data, you can find even small businesses by name, and on the route, you’re likely to have more up-to-the-minute information about road closures and other disruptions. ![]() To get an idea of the difference, try finding your destination in your BMW’s native navigation system, then again on Google Maps. I mean, CarPlay is probably better in other areas, too, but it’s undeniably better for navigation. In fact, it’s probably the only area where CarPlay is undeniably better than anything any automaker can provide themselves. On the subject of Google Maps, when you first get BMW Apple CarPlay, navigation is one of the first things you’re going to want to look into. ![]() But if your app scores 3 out of 3, then congratulations, it’s Google Maps and I’m happy to confirm it does work with BMW CarPlay! BMW Apple CarPlay navigation apps If you didn’t answer ‘yes’ to all three (sorry Netflix, fallen at the last hurdle…), then it’s probably not on CarPlay.
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