TomTom GO Navigation Software

Version 2 now supports CarPlay. For a couple of months, I have been using four other popular navigation apps. They each have pluses and missing features. For a week now, I have been using TomTom v2. Although the TomTom CarPlay is still in need of more development, it couples with the iPhone app to give full features that anyone would need. The other apps dumb down the iPhone app when connected to carPlay; TomTom allows the full feature set on the iPhone when connected to CarPlay. Hopefully with the new CarPlay in iOS 13, TomTom has the chance to incorporate its more sophisticated features on the CarPlay display. For now, TomTom will be my go to navigation app whether I am in my car with CarPlay or my in my car that CarPlay is never going to be available. The base iPhone app does have improvements over the version 1 app.

So glad to see TomTom back on CarPlay now. My car navigation system upgraded to CarPlay over 8 months ago. I’ve always preferred TomTom, and this was confirmed because I’ve been living with Apple and Google Maps only because they’re the only CarPlay navigation systems I had. I wondered if I’d just get used to it and adopt native Apple Maps after such a long wait for TomTom CarPlay. I never did and am glad to be able to use TomTom again. TomTom is much better than the free alternatives, and the older app it replaced—I’ve seen it provide better routes than before, its alternate route interface is better, its traffic interface is much better, and both worldwide and regional map downloads help with memory footprint. I expect TomTom Go will continue to be improved with regular updates. My own requests are Siri integration, and Contacts integration within CarPlay—the two features of Apple Maps I used the most.

This new version has a lot of issues. Nice to have Carplay, but you can't search fun the Carplay screen. Only the phone. Plus the phone screen mirors Carplay and it shouldn't. Waze shows text even connected to Carplay. Also can't see traffic so you know what's coming up. Carplay screen is hard to read. Text small. Colors bad. Also when searching for a specific place on tht map that every other major GPS app finds, TomTom could not. Once I found the address, I could enter it, but even with the address, TomTom doesn't know what the name is. Also the map is incorrect as it told me to turn right into a street that the entrance has been closed off for years. It knew about the street that replaced it after I drove past the street it told me to turn in which you can't. Also at one point, it told me to turn right when it was bear right. Response to developers: thanks for the reply. HOWEVER, please look at Waze. It has many of the things on Carplay yours does not and should. Also the app should not just reroute me because of traffic. Or should visually and with audio tell me there is traffic, where, and tell me it had as better route that will save me x amount of time and ask me if I want to do that. Instead or just adjusts arrival time and changes the route without letting me know why. Please fix everything.