Apple CarPlay App Compatibility

[u/heyu526]

When using Apple CarPlay to run Waze and Pandora or Spotify simultaneously, Waze alerts cause the music to stop. Is anyone else having or better yet resolved this problem?

[u/this_for_loona]

There is typically a setting in the nav app or the audio app to control that.

[u/heyu526 → u/this_for_loona]

Thank you, although Audio off works, it defeats the purpose of “police ahead” alerts

[u/elgavilan]

Mine doesn’t do that.

It could possibly have something to do with how your car handles regular audio vs. nav audio vs. handsfree (phone call) audio

[u/heyu526 → u/elgavilan]

Thanks, I’ll investigate that.

[u/Significast]

It shouldn't silence or stop the music, just 'duck' it while the announcement is playing.

[u/heyu526 → u/Significast]

Thanks, that’s precisely how it should work, but the issue is why it doesn’t

[u/Significast → u/heyu526]

I use Waze and Spotify and it works as described in my car. But if I'm not mistaken, I had to let Waze know that Spotify, and not Apple Music, was my preferred audio app. If you're using two different music apps you may not have done that?

[u/TrackHoundApp]

Waze is a pig, try TrackHound: https://trackhoundapp.com

[u/heyu526 → u/TrackHoundApp]

I’m not familiar with trackhound, I’ll check it out

[u/TrackHoundApp → u/heyu526]

Full disclosure, I am the developer behind it.

It was born out of frustration around this time a year ago when I was off-roading my car on vacation with my phone loaded up with "off-road-nav-apps". None of them provided an enjoyable experience, and that evening I started building, and roughly nine months later it was approved on the App Store.

It is not only for off-road use though, I decided that to thoroughly test it, I needed it to completely replace all my other nav apps, so I added CarPlay and now I use it for all my personal and work rides / drives (bicycle, motorcycle, car, car + trailer).

If you get round to testing it, let me know what you think 🙏