VW Navigation and Carplay/Android Auto at the Same Time
You want to use your favourite navigation app on Android or iOS, but VW navigation is integrated into travel assist and seems to utilise the camera to get super accurate information about which lane you are in.
Unfortunately VW doesn't seem to want you to use both at once. If you launch one navigation app into navigation mode then it closes the other one.
After a lot of trial and error it looks like there is a way around this:
- Unlock your stationary car and enter it
- Connect AA/Carplay and start the navigation in your preferred navigation app
- Drive a short distance, then brake the car to a stop
- Go into VW navigation, start the navigation to your preferred navigation
- Remain in VW navigation and start driving
- Once you have moved off, you can now switch to your preferred navigation app, both it and VW navigation should both be navigating
This works on a VW ID Buzz, running 3.2 software. I assume it would work on other ID cars, but have not tested it.
In the below clip both Waze and VW navigation are working at the same time.