Land Rover InControl Apps

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I recently purchased a pre-owned $40K Range Rover Evoque and guess what, this is the only app I can use with the OEM radio and navigation system fitted on this vehicle. I moved from having a car with Apple CarPlay which most cars have now, even cheaper cars, to a very outdated entertainment system with extremely limited and basic Apps to use. Also, this App has to remain open and running while connected so basically, you can’t touch your iPhone while using this App. You can’t text, use basic stuff these days such as Waze, WhatsApp, text messages, Zoom, emails, nothing! This app is totally worthless. The only associated app I saw that I liked required a $100 download and a monthly subscription and I wasn’t even sure if it works. Very limited App to the current day technology. I think LR is very behind in this matter. I know I don’t have a $100K car but still, I decided to move to a Range Rover because of the always high end features and this was a HUGE disappointment.

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I spent $80K on a vehicle that doesn’t even have an integrated entertainment system as good as a Hyundai! I travel and rent cars lots. These days if I plug my iPhone into the USB connector of the rental car 99 times out of 100 I can control the entertainment - Pandora or Apple Music - direct from the car’s console. Nope, not in my Range Rover Sport. I love the vehicle for the ride through all kinds of nasty conditions - snow, ice, rain...but I am nearly forced to listen to the radio like I were stuck in the 90’s. Come in Land Rover! Outsource your software development to people who know how to do it. Stick to designing and manufacturing cars and let professionals implement what has already been used by dozens of car companies around the world. I am just hoping that someday there will magically be a software update that makes this all better...if not it is the very last Range Rover I’ll buy!

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I love my Evoque: it got me through rain, snow storms, icy roads. But while 2 years ago I could plug in my iPhone and enjoy music, it now came to a point that I'm not able to connect at all: not through USB or Bluetooth. The only thing I can periodically achieve is plug in the phone, manually open up music album and project it through car's stereo system, while interface reads "Unknown title, Unknown artist". After recent app update I was hoping for some improvement, but nothing changed. I finally deleted the app. Have to stick with satellite radio!! I don't know how much of this is Apple fault, since I'm not able to sync the phone on my Corvette's CarPlay either: it crashes the interface and both companies blame each other. But at least Bluetooth connection works ( sort of).

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Similar problems to 99.9% of people here. Instead of doing what most car brands are doing - going with the two standards of companies that know how to develop software, LR has the brilliant idea of developing their own system. It’s functionality is light years behind Apple and Google, whenever it works. But it never works! It plays for 5-20 seconds until it is disconnected. I took my car twice to the dealer, but the answer was that the system doesn’t work with IPhone X, 18 months after the X was launched! So basically there is no way to charge your phone with the car’s USB because it will disconnect the music every few seconds. I had to buy a power pack to charge my IPhone! So I can listen to plain radio. All this in 2019! The other day I rode on a friend’s $20k volkswagen and his infotainment system was FAR superior than my $67k Discovery. Planning to change my car next year. I am dreaming with a Range Rover full version, but if LT has not come out finally with Apple Play; I’ll go for a BMW, Mercedes or Volvo. Bye bye Land Rover, after being a loyal customer since 2008 LR2 : (

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Goes without saying that the LR/Jaguar systems are behind other systems offered. Regardless, I am still trying to get my iPhone 7+ running the most current iOS to work with InControl Apps after setting up my new 2018 RR three months ago. The most recent frustration is that since an iOS update was rolled out two weeks ago, the InControl App cycles repeatedly and never is stabilized on my RR. Currently I have abandoned the USB connection and am using the phones bluetooth connection for all functions. Please look and make another attempt to update the InControl App so that it works again with my iPhone. While always klugey, the connectivity broke when Apple released its iOS update in mid-July 2018. Thank you in advance for getting this right.