Hi everyone, Aaron here for Zollotech and this is my aftermarket stereo that support CarPlay, so lets plug it in here
You'll see the screen will change here, we've got a little CarPlay icon and then it pops up.
So...it says CarPlay. We'll set that aside and take a closer look.
So here is the CarPlay interface if you haven't seen it before.
You've got your quick apps on the side here, recently used
and then you can just swipe to whatever you need.
You can go to Google Maps of course and then go to whatever you'd like.
Now the nice thing is, is Google Maps is really well integrated
It does use Google's own voice, lets go into it
Now you'll see we're in Google Maps
and..it's dark because I'm in a garage and my lights are on
If I turn my lights off it will go back to bright
So...turn the lights on, turn the lights off and it switches back and forth automatically so that's really nice.
Now as you can see I have a notifcation and if I want to switch quickly between applications I can do that easily n the left.
Tap on this and then tap
(Siri speaking) . 313131 sent you a new message
and it will read the notification to me.
I can go back home with this and then I can ask for directions by asking Siri
So I can tap and hold this button
(chime sound from the stereo)
Get directions to Starbucks
(chime sound from the stereo)
and you'll see...whether you like them or not, I know that they're a little bit of a distance away and a good place to drive to.
So here's all my options...if I pick the first one it will use Apple Maps by default.
Now I don't want to use Apple Maps, so I want to use Google Maps.
So lets check that out. We'll go into Google Maps
There we go and Google Maps has a lot more options.
So if we tap on the display we can add a destination or
go here and you have a bunch of different options.
You can see avoid higways, avoid tolls, avoid ferries, satellite map and North up
Lets use the satellite map and you'll see there's the satellite, it works really well.
We can move the display around
and this is just an aftermarket display...kenwood
but you can use it on any one that supports CarPlay
and it moves pretty quickly and then we can ask it for directions using the microphone down here.
(chime sound from the stereo)
Find the closest Starbucks
(chime sound from the stereo)
and there's all the different ones. So we'll pick this one.
and you'll see it looks very similar to Apple Maps and that's because Apple locks them to the same
interface, so they really can't change it too much, but they can do their own map overlays. So we'll hit go.
(Siri Talking - turn left onto Nautical drive, then turn right onto Latitude lane).
So lets go ahead and drive and it may be a little bit noisy because I have to have the air conditioning on.
but lets take a look and see how it works
(keys clicking and car starting)
engine rumble
Now you'll notice that Google Maps does not give the speed limit.
So where Waze and Apple Maps actually will give you the speed limit.
Now if I wanted to quickly switch between Apple Maps and Google Maps even though that's still running, we can do that.
So you'll see it working right there. We can quickly switch between Apple and Google. So we'll go back here...
and go back in and it remembers the state. We don't have to start over again.
Of course if you don't like the satellite view you can always change that.
We'll just get rid of the satellite map and then you've just got your drawn map.
(engine noise and turn signal clicking)
(Google speaking) . In a half mile, you will arrive at your destination.
(Engine and turn signal noise)
(Google speaking) You've arrived
Now one thing I noticed that it did not do since I have been using this is
Welcome to North Carolina. A lot of the times I'll go between North and South Carolina
and this time it didn't tell me "Welcome"
So...it doesn't have that feature. It also doesn't show Street View when you pull up to the location. So that part is not there.
Now one thing to note is you can search for destinations too. So you can say add a destination.
Home, Work, Other, Gas Stations, Saved Places and Recent Searches
So maybe we want to find a Gas Station
It will look for those and there's the price of them as well.
So that's the price of gas near here. So that parts really nice.
and also, you can program Work and Recent Places.
So you'll see there's some recent places.
that you can check out and it will just give you directions immediately. So maybe I wanted to go to IKEA
It tells me how far it is. It gives me the option of more routes and how long it will take.
So more routes...we can go via this highway or this one.
and it tells us the overview and shows us the traffic.
So unfortunately you can't use Siri to ask for directions unless you go into the map application itself
and then use the little microphone button that appears.
Now one thing you can do that is kind of neat is if we go back here
add a destination, other...we get a full keyboard so we can type our destination as well.
So maybe it's not picking up what we're saying. We can actually type it in here instead of going to our phone and then going back to here.
So that part is really nice.
Let me know what you think about Google Maps in Apple CarPlay
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As always, thanks for watching.
This is Aaron, I'll see you next time.
(Music playing)