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Itinj24

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Just got a new car with wireless CarPlay. When connected to the wireless CarPlay, I drop connection from my Home Wi-Fi. Is this normal behavior?

Cellular service in my area is horrendous and with wired CarPlay, I was able to set my navigation from my garage. Now I have to drive away a couple miles before getting a reliable cellular connection to set my navigation.
 

BeauGiles

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Just got a new car with wireless CarPlay. When connected to the wireless CarPlay, I drop connection from my Home Wi-Fi. Is this normal behavior?

Cellular service in my area is horrendous and with wired CarPlay, I was able to set my navigation from my garage. Now I have to drive away a couple miles before getting a reliable cellular connection to set my navigation.
Yes, it is normal behaviour.

If I remember correctly, Bluetooth is used to kick start the connection and then it is handed over for the rest to happen over WiFi.
 
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cthompson94

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Unfortunately this is going to happen just as BeauGiles pointed out. You disconnect from the CarPlay wifi and you loose the CarPlay connection. The only thing I suggest doing is having gps loaded prior to the connection
 
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Itinj24

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Appreciate the replies. Wish I could just override the wireless connection by plugging in but that doesn’t work either. Bogus.
 
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