I know Tesla doesn’t support CarPlay, but I’m wondering how well recent iPhones work when connected to Tesla’s. I’ve just ordered a Model 3, but it doesn’t arrive until March/April.
I mostly use PocketCasts while I’m driving. I’m my Prius, I can start and stop it from a basic display. (CarPlay is not supported on the Prius either).
agree, it works just like a bluetooth phone. the in-car controls for skip forward and back work fine (on my wife’s model X).
the only annoyance is it doesn’t pause/turn off until the car locks; so I’m walking away from the car but my podcast is still playing. I actually have an “arrive” shortcut I run that includes a step to tell Overcast to pause (among other things, otherwise I’d just pause overcast manually. might even be able to from the car screen). I don’t know if PocketCasts supports shortcuts or not.
the X is very good at reconnecting and resuming playback. although sometimes iOS 13 has kicked overcast out of memory, so I have to run Overcast again.
also, I’ve had a lot of fun comparing Waze’s route to the car’s nav system (which uses google maps data). they match about 2/3 of the time (when they don’t I follow waze)
I’ve tried sending an email via Siri, it’s just too painful to get it to spell my name, know that the . is not “dot” or “dat”, @ is not “at”, etc. You can forget my company name too, Siri doesn’t have a chance at that.
I only use Siri to turn Bluetooth on/ off when I enter/exit the car.
Is there a comprehensive guide for Siri?
How do you know what can be controlled?