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Yes - iPhone is mobile Wi-fi router when connected via its Personal Hotspot to DNS as a wi-fi client. Apple maps works well as an alternative to the DNS on board satnav. Great with Siri voice control, as is the iPhone dialler. The built in sat-nav, with car-net active and the maps up to date, is terrific, the traffic information is better and clearer than Android Auto Google Maps. I don't have a smart phone at the moment. I'm trying to decide which one to buy and which SIM plan to get. I'm leaning towards an Android phone though. VW UK Customer Services say that they receive fewer support requests from drivers with iPhones than they do from drivers with Android phones. When I pointed out that there are probably about four times as many Android phones in the world as there are iPhones, they couldn't comment any further!
This is much safer as I can glance at the TomTom whilst keeping the road ahead within my field of vision. Internet connection - Personal Hotspot - wrong assumption. When set up the phone acts as a mobile wi-if router and can share its internet connection with any wi-if device, of which one is the DNS and therefore car-net. If using streaming services occasional dropouts due to signal loss are avoided by saving playlists to the phone. Connecting to an EE iPhone over wifi hotspot is particularly slow (I've found it unreliable on everything, regualrly having to turn the hotspot on/off/on to make a connection actually access the interent).right this is the issue. I need to provide the internet connection to the car. I was under the impression it had a built in 3G connection which was skoda connect..... The Discover Media happily connects to the Huawei modem, seems to be getting all the correct traffic updates, CarPlay is streaming music etc. It is really getting off topic to discuss the relative merits of the iPhone and Android phones. I’ve been a Luddite for many years and have refused to buy a smart phone. However, my elder daughter has an Android and is very pleased with it, and my younger daughter has an iPhone and is equally pleased with it. And, having watched them use various useful apps on their phones, I’ve been persuaded to buy a smart phone. Yes - Of course iPhone connects via Bluetooth to DNS - EXCEPT when using Car-play. Which you don't have. And I do - why I said "how it works for me"! If you don't have the discovery nav you can still just use the mini wi-fi router to create a network without having to go through the head unit.
My RCD 310 has live traffic updates which is a waste of time as it tells about traffic problems not in my area I disabled that stupid feature. About to buy a 7.5 GTi and keen to enable all the online stuff on car-net without having to enable a hot spot on my phone each time I drive the car.Have you got a Columbus or Amundsen head unit? My Amundsen doesn’t have a globe, but a standard Wi-fi fan type symbol instead. Are you saying you can tether it via USB, or do you mean connect to the personal hotspot whilst it’s plugged into CarPlay?
As a side note I mentioned that when i disabled hot spot on the phone while it was connect via CarPlay I retained a white globe icon (its red when i have no connction) and had access to Skodaconnect. so I guess carplay also tethers it?
As a whole the only part of Car-Net I find useful (excluding in my case the very much used CarPlay) is the upload of destinations to the DNS satnav from the comfort of an armchair.
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