Touch Media, developer of Route 66 Navigation, announced this week its app has been updated to be used with Apple CarPlay systems.
CarPlay software, introduced in 2014, allows a user’s iPhone to interface with their car’s built-in entertainment and information system, minimizing the need to handle the iPhone while driving.
More information from the news release:
Route 66 Navigation joins a small group of navigation apps that allow users to follow turn-by-turn directions safely while driving by using their vehicle’s infotainment dashboard. Route 66 Navigation is also the only application in the world that provides this unique functionality for historical sections of Route 66.
The CarPlay feature will allow tourists on Route 66 to travel more comfortably and safely, while the app remaining a reliable companion for all travelers on Route 66. The application retains all the practical functions that its users are used to since the launch.
In addition, CarPlay brings the ability to start navigation from Saved Trips, or search for a destination. The large map shows not only turn-by-turn instructions, but also POI notifications, thanks to which passengers will not miss any interesting place on Route 66. In total, Route 66 Navigation offers more than 1200 POI records collected and described by the respected Route 66 author and historian Jim Hinckley.
Users also benefit from other functionalities such as night and day mode, dashboard with POI notifications and voice navigation available in more than 60 languages and their mutations. While navigating in CarPlay, co-pilot can independently use additional features in the app, such as Places to visit (POI list) with descriptions.
The news release also stated Route 66 Navigation’s authors, Marián Pavel and Jan Švrček, are planning more expansions and improvements for the 2023 travel season.
After activating the one-week or one-year subscription to Route 66 Navigation, the CarPlay functionality is automatically activated. Route 66 Navigation is available in the Apple AppStore here.
Touch Media, based in Slovakia, has offered the Route 66 Navigation app for four years. It also publishes the Route 66 Passport and a Route 66 guidebook.
(Screenshot of Route 66 Navigation in action on an Apple CarPlay system, courtesy of Touch Media)