Spoken navigation directions are silent during active phone calls, in both Apple Maps and Google Maps.
Key facts:
- Over wired CarPlay in my 2017 Hyundai Elantra, spoken directions used to play during calls. This stopped several months ago.
- Neither my car nor my phone changed when it stopped.
- I recently replaced my iPhone, and the new phone behaves exactly the same, so this does not appear to be a fault in one device.
- The same silence happens with the phone alone, with no CarPlay or Bluetooth connected.
- Test result: with navigation running and a call active, directions are silent. When I put the call on hold, directions are spoken again. When I resume the call, they go silent again.
My questions:
- Is suppressing spoken navigation during active calls intended behavior in current iOS, including over CarPlay?
- If so, where is that documented, and what changed several months ago?
- If it is not intended, please escalate this to an engineering investigation as a possible regression.
- Is there a setting that allows navigation voice instructions to play during an active phone call?
- Has anyone else experienced this issue, and is there a known solution?
Please also log this as feature feedback if it is intentional, since it affects safe navigation while driving.
Thank you.
