I use Deltran Battery Tenders on literally everything. On 2 muscle cars, I changed the batteries out at 9 & 10 years old....pushing my confidence level. Nothing is worse than hoping on the tractor or getting in a vehicle and it won't start due to a dead battery.
Thought everything was OK but today the problems started...my galaxy would not permanently pair to it. The phone would constantly pair then unpair and could not get it to work properly 
I noticed when I first updated mine the phone paired then dropped off half way home. I drove it again yesterday and all seemed to work well again. I forgot to connect it to CarPlay which I'll do next time but all else seems to be working good so far. My location works too from the app.Did the sync update yesterday and it went smoothly and registered correctly on my system: 3.4.22200
Finally, I called Ford, and it took about 2.5 hours for them to fix it. The representative explained that sometimes these updates leave issues that create glitches with other sync modes and settings. They had to take sync back to factory settings several times to get the system completely clear of this issue then when they got the phone paired correctly, they had to transfer me to FordPass support to get FordPass re-installed because the update created a glitch in the FordPass re-install process. After FordPass was installed correctly it knocked the phone pairing process out of whack again, so they needed to do another system reset to get the phone paired back up.
The email looked promising but It looks to me like the engineers got the update installation process working more smoothly but didn't do that much with fixing sync's interaction and installation with some of its other modes and processes.
A plus came of this though...I read somewhere on this site that the vehicle location system was going to be eliminated with this update, but it appeared afterwards and is working OK. The Rep. assured me that it would not be going away! My insurance gives me discount for having a locator system in case the truck ever gets stolen
Dave, glad yours is working well and hope mine is fixed. There are probably some variables between types of phones and also phone provider services that can also affect sync's operation. Ford support evidently has ongoing experiences with customer sync problems.
Glad I read your post @NeilP... I had not realized that xml file the update process creates is suppose to be uploaded on the web site. So I got the file from my Oct update, and uploaded to Ford, and now when I put in the VIN, it says I'm up-to-date. I'm sure the email I got was sent because of my failure to upload it. Still no new maps
Can you provide me with more info on the JAVA Script blockers. I have uBlock, ABP and Malwarebytes all turned off for Ford.com.Glad I read your post @NeilP... I had not realized that xml file the update process creates is suppose to be uploaded on the web site. So I got the file from my Oct update, and uploaded to Ford, and now when I put in the VIN, it says I'm up-to-date. I'm sure the email I got was sent because of my failure to upload it. Still no new maps
Also @NeilP, the upload for me when without a hitch. Got any JAVA Script blockers in/on your browser?? I do and have to turn it off on the Ford site, then no issues.
I think the Nav you have to pay for. I remember getting an email a while back where you could either do it through wifi of send away for a thumb drive. Like you I didn't notice any difference besides the color changed to blue.
I thought I had saved the email but couldn't find it. I thought there was an option for a free version but I could be confusing that with the free Sync updates. Here's what I found on the Ford website. Looks like there's a charge for it.
You have a choice to pay for a USB stick with the map update or download the files to your own memory stick for free. (Unless they very recently changed it, I downloaded the map update for free).
I hadn't updated mine either since I bought it in July 2019. I did it the other day and besides the blue screen accents I haven't noticed anything significantly different yet. If you do it just be patient as it does take a long time seeing as it's never been done. Mine took almost a full 24 hours before the new update popped up.
I use NoScript in Firefox and by default, it blocks all but the top domain of the website. Then I look at the drop down list of other sites that have been set to run scripts (doubleclick, amazonads, cookielaw, etc.) and either allow on a temp basis or permanently ( ranger5g.com, permanently; googletagmanger.com as temp and only on ranger5g.com site).
