Mapping from Appointments in CarPlay Calendar is useless

I rely on Apple Calendar, Maps and CarPlay in my day to day work. Perplexingly, when I pull up a Calendar appointment in CarPlay - even one that HAS A FULLY FORMED ADDRESS LOCATION - most times, CarPlay will NOT allow me to map that location. I can see it, right there in front of me: CarPlay is displaying the address on the screen, but it won't let me tap it to map a route! This forces me to grab my phone and fiddle with it while driving, which is dangerous. Honestly, this is such an obvious use case, I'm confused by the lack of attention to it. I prefer to avoid the Google ecosystem and stick with Apple's native apps, but this is an example of Apple penalizing people like me, who are constantly navigating to different, new addresses to as part of our work lives.

Posted on Oct 17, 2025 6:07 AM

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Posted on Oct 17, 2025 6:11 AM

Or you could just tell Siri to navigate to that address...


Open the calendar app on your phone and tap on one of the appointments you're referencing.

When you open it on the phone, does it display a map at the bottom of the page? If not, you have not entered the address in a way that maps can understand.

Make sure you have entered the address correctly when you create the event in the calendar.

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Oct 17, 2025 6:11 AM in response to jlachoff

Or you could just tell Siri to navigate to that address...


Open the calendar app on your phone and tap on one of the appointments you're referencing.

When you open it on the phone, does it display a map at the bottom of the page? If not, you have not entered the address in a way that maps can understand.

Make sure you have entered the address correctly when you create the event in the calendar.

Oct 26, 2025 8:51 AM in response to KiltedTim

Thanks for the workaround suggestion to use Siri. Not criticizing you or your suggestions, but I expect Apple to deliver something better than workarounds.

When I open the Calendar app on my phone, these addresses are shown as links that I can tap, and they open Apple Maps on my phone. So if the phone's Calendar app can resolve the address, it stands to reason that the CarPlay version of the app should, too.



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Mapping from Appointments in CarPlay Calendar is useless

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