Originally Posted by
jackal
FWIW, I actually hate CarPlay...it's slow, the interface is awkward, it takes over my screen as soon as I get in the car and plug my Lightning cord in to charge (making my screen go dark and interrupting whatever I was in the middle of doing, even if I'm just in park), and it disables a bunch of things that should be perfectly allowed ("Hey Siri, open Waze"..."I'm sorry, jackal, I can't do that.") I end up having to touch my phone more than I do when CarPlay is not enabled. If I end up in a vehicle with CarPlay, I break out my 12V adapter and connect my phone via Bluetooth instead.
I always get prompted on my phone to allow the car play connection or not. Don't you get prompted before it connects? Even if you allow it you can open the phone and resume whatever you were doing.
You can deny the connection if you don't want to use car play, but I find that when I use a USB connection in a car, it interferes with using bluetooth. Hence your 12V USB power adaptor (I carry one also.)
Waze now shows up on the car's display in car play, assuming the car is up to date.
You might want to try this again at some point. I was in a Subaru outback that had the worlds worst car play integration I'd ever seen plus the screen was incredibly hard to read, especially in sunlight .. totally turned me off to the Outback which is a popular SUV. A high end RAV4 had very good integration in a recent rental in Orlando (PC choice.) I imagine other late model Toyotas will be similar. I'm sure there's other makes/models that do it well, I'm just not familiar with them. After the Outback experience I realized there's a lot of variance in the implementations. Maybe it needed an update. Many cars I rent complain that there's an infotainment system upgrade available, which I ignore.
I try to choose cars that have either good bluetooth and/or car play implementations. They really do vary.
-David