ABRP defaulting as primary map in Apple CarPlay

[Truaz]

I've had ABRP on my phone for over a year and I use it occasionally to route out my trips. After not using it for 5 months or so I go back in to plan a trip this winter. Next time I went into my truck ABRP was the map of choice on CarPlay. No problem, select Apple Maps and be on my way. Next time start my truck and ABRP is there again, I didn't use ABRP between the first and second time I was in the truck. Made sure there are no apps running on my phone, re-select Apple Maps. Go into my music player change the playlist and as soon I went back a screen the icon changed back to ABRP. Anyone else seeing this, I've restarted my phone, restarted Sync, ABRP is not running on my phone. Other than removing ABRP from CarPlay how can I stop ABRP from wanting to take over as my map of choice?

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[Kakaratto]

I had this happen too. I just removed it from the available CarPlay apps and it now defaults back to Waze (what I use).

You can do this on your phone by going to Settings>General>Carplay and select your vehicle.

 

[Truaz]

I had this happen too. I just removed it from the available CarPlay apps and it now defaults back to Waze (what I use).

You can do this on your phone by going to Settings>General>Carplay and select your vehicle.

Ya, that's what I've done. But this is just wrong. I wonder if this a bug in ABRP or CarPlay?

 

[definenine]

I had this happen too. I just removed it from the available CarPlay apps and it now defaults back to Waze (what I use).

You can do this on your phone by going to Settings>General>Carplay and select your vehicle.

Yep, had to do the same thing. The ABRP hijacking was causing me to go crazy.

 

[potato]

Ya, that's what I've done. But this is just wrong. I wonder if this a bug in ABRP or CarPlay?

As I understand it, CarPlay defaults to the most recently used mapping app. Which sounds good on the surface. But whether it's a "bug" or not, I guess something ABRP is doing in the background counts as "running" so it then gets marked as the most recent app.

I think Apple will have to tweak their algorithm to allow full manual control (ideally) of the default app, rather than trying and failing to be smart about it, or at least change their definition of "running" to be *only* user initiated actions. Then when apps do something accidentally on purpose in the background it doesn't flag them as the new default app.

In another thread someone suggested setting up an automation on the phone to open the desired mapping app whenever CarPlay is connected. That should fix it though I haven't tried myself.

 

[ZUES_150]

I've had ABRP on my phone for over a year and I use it occasionally to route out my trips. After not using it for 5 months or so I go back in to plan a trip this winter. Next time I went into my truck ABRP was the map of choice on CarPlay. No problem, select Apple Maps and be on my way. Next time start my truck and ABRP is there again, I didn't use ABRP between the first and second time I was in the truck. Made sure there are no apps running on my phone, re-select Apple Maps. Go into my music player change the playlist and as soon I went back a screen the icon changed back to ABRP. Anyone else seeing this, I've restarted my phone, restarted Sync, ABRP is not running on my phone. Other than removing ABRP from CarPlay how can I stop ABRP from wanting to take over as my map of choice?

I thought I was crazy

 

[SmoothJ]

This happened to me as well. So I removed ABRP from the list in App Carplay.

 

[ZUES_150]

Yeah super annoying

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