Ford Pass Question

[Dgc333]

I had to go some place today that I needed my nav for. I thought I would try Ford Pass to send the address to the truck from the house. I could figure out how to do it so I googled it. What I found was from the map page you pull down the menu under the search window and pick the trip planning icon. Problem is the Ford Pass app on my phone doesn't have that menu item.

Anyone run across this and is there something I need to configure?

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[THLONE]

Forget about ford pass. The detroit high school students that designed it are on vacation. Just use your phone.

 

[Dgc333]

Forget about ford pass. The detroit high school students that designed it are on vacation. Just use your phone.

It wasn't a biggy. I just used the Sync voice recognition to enter the address. Just seemed like a nice idea to use the search function on the map tab of Ford Pass and transfer the address directly to the Sync nav.

 

[D Fresh]

It wasn't a biggy. I just used the Sync voice recognition to enter the address. Just seemed like a nice idea to use the search function on the map tab of Ford Pass and transfer the address directly to the Sync nav.

Not sure about FordPass, I use it simply to monitor points, start the truck, and schedule maintenance.


However, you can do all that from your phone, plug the phone in when you get to the truck, and access it via Android Auto or Apple Caraway.

Phone based nav is far superior, the crowdsourced realtime traffic data and it's ability to reroute are light-years beyond any vehicle based system. Plus the GUI on the factory system is straight up garbage.

Glad Ford decided to go Google in the future. All I want is a kick ass sound system, a moderately sized screen, and an interface to my phone.

 

[mtbikernate]

I've done this with Google and using the phone as nav (Google Maps). I know a lot of people get grumpy about google and privacy and there are some legitimate concerns there. but short of removing your presence from the internet entirely, there's not a lot you can actually do. so I don't sweat that part of it.

my computer and my phone (and therefore the truck) access the same saved information, so I can do it fairly easy.

Some locations get kinda weird to find while I'm actually in the truck, so sometimes it's easier to send it from the computer to my google account so I can pull it up in the truck later.

 

[Dgc333]

However, you can do all that from your phone, plug the phone in when you get to the truck, and access it via Android Auto or Apple Caraway.

Having to plug your phone in to use AA everytime you get into the vehicle is a huge inconvenience to me. Until AA is wireless I will take integrated nav everytime.

 

[D Fresh]

Having to plug your phone in to use AA everytime you get into the vehicle is a huge inconvenience to me.

I don't even know how to respond to this. Sounds like you've led a rough life.

 

[mtbikernate]

took me all of a couple minutes to adapt to plugging my phone in whenever I get into the truck.

wireless might be a little handier, but I take the opportunity to get some charging done.

IF I had wireless charging AND wireless AA, it wouldn't actually change very much of my workflow. I'm not sweating over it.

 

[Dgc333]

I don't even know how to respond to this. Sounds like you've led a rough life.

Not really expecting you to respond. When Sync and the factory nav does everything I need it to pulling the phone out of the holster on my belt is inconvenient and provides now benefit.

 

[D Fresh]

Not really expecting you to respond. When Sync and the factory nav does everything I need it to pulling the phone out of the holster on my belt is inconvenient and provides now benefit.

Just funnin'.


And OBVIOUSLY it doesn't do everything you want it to.

You just started a thread asking how to make it do what you want.

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