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Finally.. the wait is over. Waze is now available for iOS device owners on Ford SYNC 3. You'll need to update to the latest everything (see below). Waze is free. Waze data is "crowd sourced" -- people on the road report accidents, police cars, and traffic jams -- which show up on your display in a minute or two (as compared to an hour with Sirius Traffic Link). It is a fantastic application (which is why Google bought it..). Here is my report.. To get Waze to work on my Ford I had to disable Apple Carplay through the Ford SYNC 3 settings before anything would happen. Activating Waze on the phone and plugging it in opened up new menus and displays - the key one being setting your default navigation software (a menu item that appears only when Waze is detected. There were glitches, and one crash. For a while when I plugged in the USB on the phone I got the dreaded "Inserted USB is not detected" message. I soft rebooted SYNC 3 and power-cycled my phone and things straightened out. Here is a demo video- sadly done in the garage instead of on the road (not safe to drive and film), but you get the idea.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6ntZrJ1bpM Wazer since 2013 2017 Ford Fusion Hybrid SYNC 3, v3.0 Build 18025 iPhone X iOS 11.2.6 Waze 4.37.0.0 (Yeah I cross posted this to the main fusion forum..)

Hi, Over the last couple of weeks I haven't been able to run the SYNC My iTunes utility at all. It keeps producing the error message, "iTunes is busy. Please close SYNC My iTunes and try again later". I've been able to use this utility without much trouble since I purchased my Fusion in 2010, but ever since Apple's latest update of their Podcasts app, the utility won't run. Has anyone else seen this problem? I listen to a lot of frequently-updated podcasts so typically I have to run this utility daily. Right now the title info displayed on the dash doesn't always match up with the actual podcasts; I expect that problem to get worse as more podcasts arrive. Perhaps I could update the XML file manually, or I could even write my own script to accomplish the same task, but I don't know what all the utility did. Does there exist anywhere a guide as to what SYNC My iTunes actually did?

Is anyone else having trouble with the speed control volume on their car? I have tried turning it all the way up to 7 without being able to notice it working. Also I am less than impressed with how my sync and my android phone play music. I was hoping for the applink or on-screen pandora/spotify apps. Does the iphone work better? Is the artist/song information shown on the driver or nav screen? All I see if on the entertainment screen is it saying that it's connected to bluetooth.