We are currently looking into enabling CarPlay for a navigation app. The navigation app allows complex trip planning (not focussed on A-B planning like Apple Maps).
As we found the guidelines somewhat loose in this area, we are wondering, if it is allowed to have a navigation app that only offers the navigation feature, so no planning?
Any route planning actions needs to be done on the iOS device. So, if you haven't planned/loaded a route, you would only see your location on a map and can drive freely, but without guidance.
The Car App programming guideline mentions the select destination as explicit flow of a navigation app. Which makes us think that it might be required to support that flow.
Hi,
You can handle the case of needing configuration by showing an alert (overlay) on your map. It would be a question for App Review if you should entirely hide or disable the map until a route is configured, so you can implement your desired flow and follow up with them, if needed.
Rico WWDR - DTS - Software Engineer