Toyota navigation

Did you look at the settings before you asked? I went through them a couple months ago and I think there was a setting for that but I am not positive now. It can be a little annoying but I’m used to it now.

 

I haven't seen many settings for the navigation. Have you tried calling the Destination Assist number?

 

There is an option for it in the European navigation, at Settings > Navigation > Guidance > Automatic zoom.

Doesn't look like you've got that "Guidance" submenu in the US one though.

 

European map system is more fully featured, being functional in-car, rather than relying on data.

Still seems like a bit of a downgrade from the 2009 version I'm used to:

* It won't show village or small town names, so you never know where you are when driving across the country. Does show all the lake names though. That's the biggest grump. Map bizarrely low detailed and lacking, well, map features.
* Autocomplete doesn't work as well - doesn't narrow down to what it knows.
* Doesn't show street numbers. It knows them, as you can search for them, but won't show them. And the numbers are not included in the autocomplete system.
* Very hard to manage multiple destinations - no immediate single-click "where to insert in order" prompt screen. Instead it always adds destinations first, and you have to dig through subscreens to find the "reorder" option. Took me a LOT of manual reading and exploration to find that - it was scrolled off the bottom of a page below all the road preferences.
* No dual map display (on a much bigger screen!)
* Grand total of six icons for custom points
* Can't show time to destination on main display.
* Can't choose whether to show ETA for next destination or last destination on main display.
* Speech recognition seems less reliable, as it's attempting a much larger search function, rather than having a limited set of basic words. You have to give it full sentences, just to make it even slower. ("Set map to heading up"). Plus basic functions like "screen off" don't work ("feature not available").
* RDS traffic info is apparently there, but not working? Maybe someone didn't pay a license fee - I think it's "encrypted" here.
* (And just for amusement, it has a ridiculous roadsign error on our motorway exit)

I had been thinking that the "use a smartphone" advice was a bit overblown, but maybe I was erroneously assuming car navigation still worked as well as 15 years ago.

 

A YouTuber posted a helpful video describing how to add destinations in the phone app which you than send to the car. I find it a lit bit of an improvement over fiddling with adding destinations on the Multimedia Display. I think it also improves the voice recognition too but am still experimenting with it myself.

Here is the video.

 

There's also a direct local Bluetooth destination setting possibility, apparently, at least in Europe, which sounds like it might work without signing up to all the Toyota server stuff.

 

I'm sure actually putting a map database in the car does cost them something. License fees and the large storage device would be the obvious difference.

In Japan there's a distinction between the "Connected" (no map database) and "Connected plus" (map database) options. It seems the USA only gets the former, and Europe only gets the latter.

 

Is there a way to properly name custom favorite locations instead of having the plain address and then figuring out who this address belongs to?

 

Ooh, that would be nice!
I saved a bunch of addresses, luckily I remember whose they are. but editing the name would be much easier.

 

You can edit the name in the EU version, but I remember it being a pain to find.

Here's the manual pages, but I don't see the corresponding section of manual in the US version.

 

The Navigation/Other submenu is not present in the Canadian edition of the 2023 Prius Prime.

 

Whenever my Toyota navigation pops up, I know my connection to the phone has failed. I prefer using Waze and Google Maps.