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I have like the opposite experience...AA and Carplay have always been cause of issues, having to take the phone in my hand while driving, sluggishness..

In fact I feel the opposite you say: car play has been an excuse for some automakers for subpar infotainment.

That being said removing it completely is madness, because people like you are millions and want it.

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None of these issues exist on my Mazda car. Screen is tactile at stops, but I only ever use the rotational+directional knob. Phone stays plugged and untouched. It's snappy.

I bet some other cars have poor HID but here they put the work in and it is good.

I have the same experiance, I wonder if maybe people are using wireless modes(I don't have that option in my car), and don't have "knob controls".

Why do you have to take your phone in your hand? You just do all your actions on the screen in the car. I’ve never had to touch my phone in the car once it’s plugged in.

I think you need to upgrade your phone. I have never had these issues with a (more or less recent) iPhone.

The idea that I have to upgrade my perfectly working phone to get a better infotainment experience sounds ridiculous.

Also, as I stated, I'm perfectly fine with the out-of-the-box experience of the infotainment in both my cars.

There's radio, there's maps, that's all I really need.

If it's sluggish then it's not working perfectly.

The infotainment is sluggish not the phone.

That's really odd. As far as I know carplay just sends video data to the screen and the screen shows it. It's like an hdmi cable in that regard. I would say it's a problem with your car, then. My volkswagen has absolutely no issues with carplay.

[it] just sends video data to the screen and the screen shows it. It's like an hdmi cable in that regard

Spoken by someone who's never had to troubleshoot HDCP handshake issues with hdmi cables.

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