t0lkman Posted August 27, 2018 Report Share Posted August 27, 2018 Is it possible to send an address from the phone to Sync 3 without connecting the phone to USB? it's weird that the app requires to be connected to USB in order to transfer the address, since the phone already connected through Bluetooth. I own also a Merc c300 where I can use their app and send the address to the car's gps without typing it. Why Ford would require usb cable connection? Or I am doing something wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akirby Posted August 27, 2018 Report Share Posted August 27, 2018 Why would you need to do that anyway? Just hit the voice button and say the address. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
t0lkman Posted August 28, 2018 Author Report Share Posted August 28, 2018 it's very convenient when you have a lot of favorites places on your phone or contacts with address... e.g. you find some good restaurant on Yelp and send its location to the Sync instead of typing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akirby Posted August 28, 2018 Report Share Posted August 28, 2018 I understand but you don’t have to type, you can just read the address. Have you tried that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
t0lkman Posted August 29, 2018 Author Report Share Posted August 29, 2018 Tried, it's slow for me, especially when it doesn't get me and I have to repeat.. I just don't see any technical difficulties to implement this feature, since the phone anyway is connected to the sync 3 over bluetooth all the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akirby Posted August 29, 2018 Report Share Posted August 29, 2018 I push the button, say “destination street address.......123 Main Street anytown.... and it’s done. Not sure why it would be slower for you unless you’re speaking slower, but it works better when you speak normally or even slightly faster. Make sure prompts are in advanced mode so they’re shorter. The problem with doing it from another app is just getting the apis to talk to each other and then having to continually test those apis each time the app or sync 3 changes. It’s doable but a lot of effort to keep it up for not much benefit over voice control. They tried this with MFT and mapquest and it never worked right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FordGuy1 Posted August 31, 2018 Report Share Posted August 31, 2018 (edited) If your phone is connected by bluetooth and you allow it to download the address book, then you select phone on the Sync3 display and you can then look up a contact and set a destination to it's address. Added: When you get to the contact that you want then press on the address for that contact and it should then allow you to set it as a destination. Edited September 1, 2018 by FordGuy1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redden18 Posted September 24, 2018 Report Share Posted September 24, 2018 there was an application to do that on SYNC 2, but was only available in US, do not know about SYNC 3. Could ask ford support... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FordGuy1 Posted September 25, 2018 Report Share Posted September 25, 2018 Sync2 MFT use to have it built-in like Sync3 using your contacts as I stated above, but since it had a problem with not working if anything was in the contact's country space Ford deleted it completely in a newer revision of the software rather than fix it. That's why we can't expect much out of Ford since their software people couldn't fix that simply problem. So they removed the feature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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