Nav System: Address Book

[William3]

It's been mentioned that the navigation system doesn't have an address book. Probably the only OEM nav system on the market which lacks this feature.

For people who don't own the car and are wondering, I'd like to expand on this. (I'm pretty sure this hasn't been mentioned yet.)

When you pair an Android phone with the car it will transfer your phone's contact list to the car. This transfers all the names and phone numbers AND ADDRESSES. Yes, that's right, addresses too. If I want to navigate to a friend's house then I just bring up that person's contact record from the phone app, then I just click on his address. The address will be transferred quickly to Google Maps and you're all set. Very slick, I don't know of any other car that can do this. If someone knows of any other car that does this please let me know, I like to be up-to-date on these sort of things.

It probably does this with an iPhone as well, but I honestly don't know. I'm sure someone will chime in.

Tesla still should add a nav address book though. Not everyone has an Android phone, and not everyone wants to populate their phone's contact list with a bunch of businesses.

 

[AltPowr]

Yes, it works that way with an iPhone also - used it a few times this weekend already. The thing that may not be obvious to most people is that you have to go to the Phone app to kick this off instead of the Nav app.

 

[dtich]

It's been mentioned that the navigation system doesn't have an address book. Probably the only OEM nav system on the market which lacks this feature.

For people who don't own the car and are wondering, I'd like to expand on this. (I'm pretty sure this hasn't been mentioned yet.)

When you pair an Android phone with the car it will transfer your phone's contact list to the car. This transfers all the names and phone numbers AND ADDRESSES. Yes, that's right, addresses too. If I want to navigate to a friend's house then I just bring up that person's contact record from the phone app, then I just click on his address. The address will be transferred quickly to Google Maps and you're all set. Very slick, I don't know of any other car that can do this. If someone knows of any other car that does this please let me know, I like to be up-to-date on these sort of things.

It probably does this with an iPhone as well, but I honestly don't know. I'm sure someone will chime in.

Tesla still should add a nav address book though. Not everyone has an Android phone, and not everyone wants to populate their phone's contact list with a bunch of businesses.

yes, does this with iphone too. my bmw has done this for a few years. but the model s integration is very good. much better. quite happy with how this is starting to work.

 

[dsm363]

I hope adding favorites from your address book or recently visited places is on their to do list too. Seems a basic feature so would expect it soon.

 

[steve841]

I mentioned elsewhere about the photo placeholder for contact pics on the displays.. Can't wait for that update as well!

 

[montgom626]

For people who don't own the car and are wondering, I'd like to expand on this. (I'm pretty sure this hasn't been mentioned yet.)

When you pair an Android phone with the car it will transfer your phone's contact list to the car. This transfers all the names and phone numbers AND ADDRESSES. Yes, that's right, addresses too. If I want to navigate to a friend's house then I just bring up that person's contact record from the phone app, then I just click on his address. The address will be transferred quickly to Google Maps and you're all set. Very slick, I don't know of any other car that can do this. If someone knows of any other car that does this please let me know, I like to be up-to-date on these sort of things.

It probably does this with an iPhone as well, but I honestly don't know. I'm sure someone will chime in.
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Cripes! My iPhone address book is part of my gmail account. That is close to 1200 addresses and phone numbers. Scares me to think how long that transfer would take :scared:

 

[AnOutsider]

Audi does this as well (they also use Google Maps so there's that data point). I haven't seen it in action yet, but I don't usually store addresses of contacts.