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I hardly ever use Google Maps but I'm pretty sure one time when I did it showed directions in the Virtual Console. But my memory could be wrong or maybe I was (even more improbably) using Apple maps. I don't have head-up display so I don't know about that. I'll try google maps again sometime and see what happens.

Sadly not, although Google Maps does so I'm not surprised that Apple Maps does too. I would really like it if I could get Waze (or Google Maps) to display the whole map etc in the VC the way the built-in satnav can. Then we could use the Infotainment screen to choose music and keep navigation directly in front of me. If the built-in SatNav was any good, I'd probably use it just because of that, but of all the navigation options I have (that plus Waze, Google and Apple) it's the least good, so I don't.

Thanks for that. I can now see what I had previously missed: when you press the control wheel, little green arrows appear above and below the dial and I've always then used the wheel to switch between different displays within the dial but what I hadn't realised or noticed is that sometimes there's a green arrow pointing to the right or left, which takes you into sub-options as explained the quote from the manual that Jorgeminator copied above. In the case of Settings, you can then get into a list of various options. Previously I thought all the arrow keys below the wheel did was switch between different instrument display formats - I hadn't thought to press them when the green arrows were showing. So, "Settings" I can access and understand. "Backgrounds" I think we can probably agree is pointless. So I'm left with "Apple CarPlay", which doesn't have any sub-options and doesn't seem to do anything useful other than display the state of my phone battery and network connection. As I use CarPlay almost all the time to show Waze on the main screen, I was hoping this option might do something really useful for me - but I don't think it does. Anyway, thanks very much for the replies, which have helped me resolve a minor loose end that has been puzzling me ever since I got the car.

Great - thank you - I'll try this next time I'm in the car. I have to admit it never occurred to me to try the left side buttons, which I thought were only for controlling media (channel/track and volume).

Thank you. You say "select them" - I'm probably missing something obvious but I can't work out how to do that from the main instrument panel.

I've had the car well over two years now but still occasionally wonder about some things, so can anyone else can help me with the following? When choosing the information to display in the centre of the 'dials' on the instrument display, there are three that I don't seem to do anything useful - Apple Play, Settings and Backgrounds. See the attached photos. Does anyone know what they do? The first one in particular sounds useful if it provided a quick way to get Apple Play on the main screen - but if it does do this, i can't see how. Any suggestions welcome!

This is interesting to me as I too have noticed that the dipped beam seems high. In fact, if I switch from dipped to main (i.e. auto) beam, when I'm behind another car, I see the beam lower from more-or-less level with the bottom of the back window, to well below that. I too get flashed even when driving on dipped beam. I've almost completely given up relying on the automatic matrix mode on normal roads now as find I'm being flashed all the time. If I see another vehicle approaching on the other side, I dip the lights as I always would have done in the past. I included this issue in my complaint to Skoda UK about software issues (mostly ACC, which is now fully fixed) but they wanted me to have my lights checked at a dealer. However, my local dealer doesn't have the required equipment to do this and I'd have had to take it about 50 miles away to find one that did, so I'm afraid I gave up on that and just accept that the matrix headlights don't really work as claimed.

Interesting - I'm getting that a lot too, despite it not being long since I last changed the battery. I don't get it anything like every time I start the car though.

OK - so that's what I wondered, although I don't think the manual makes it clear what's sensitivity is affected by this setting. Having changed the setting I'll see if it makes any difference although it may be a week or two before I get a good chance to try it properly. I wish I could be sure of that!

As it happens, a few days ago I did look at the settings and changed this one to the most sensitive setting, even though I wasn't completely sure what effect it would have. As it's summer, I haven't driven in the dark again since, so I'll try it again next time I do.

Now that the latest software updates have fixed many of the more serious problems with my car (ACC etc), I'm now more aware that the matrix headlights still don't work as I thought they were supposed to. I've discussed this before with my dealer, who told me that in his personal experience of Skoda and a couple of other manufacturers' cars with this feature, they don't respond fast enough to be satisfactory on single-carriageway roads. This confirms my experience in the 18 months I've owned the car that they work well on motorways etc. but on single-carriageway roads I find I'm being flashed frequently if I rely on them, so now always manually switch main-beam off when I see an approaching vehicle (just like I have on all other cars I've ever driven). I'm left wondering if they really are working as designed or not. There's a youtube video on the Skoda UK site showing them in use on a single-carriageway road, so clearly Skoda's marketing department think they are intended for such roads. However, if you watch the video closely (perhaps at reduced speed) from 0:24 to 0:26, you see that it takes a couple of seconds before the headlights adjust the beam for the oncoming car, during which time that driver would be dazzled. I think the problem illustrated by this video is that they (a) don't anticipate the other car coming round the bend the way we would (because we'd see its lights before the car itself appeared) and (b) even when the car is in full view it take a second or two to respond. I suppose my questions is, am I expecting too much of this feature or should I continue to press Skoda Customer Relations over the fact that it doesn't work as advertised? This is the video:

At last - after 18 months - the latest software updates seem to have fixed the major problem with ACC - the way it would often refuse to pass a slower vehicle in a lane to my left. Hooray!!! So, now it's working, I tested it for almost the whole of a 400 mile round trip on motorways last weekend and I noticed something that seems less than ideal and could surely be easily fixed with - dare I say it - another software update. If you're behind another car that is going slower than the speed you've set on the cruise control then of course your car keeps to their speed until they move out of the lane. This is correct behaviour but what is slightly frustrating is that it won't speed up until the other car is completely out of your lane - even if its wheels are still on the dotted line it waits until that car is fully in its own lane before speeding up. If I were in control I would start speeding up as soon as I was sure they would be gone any moment; if they suddenly changed their mind and pulled back out, there'd still be plenty of time to drop back again. This is of course a very minor irritation but the opposite scenario could be more serious. You're travelling at your chosen speed and then a car pulls into your lane in front of you, too close and going slower than you. The ACC correctly responds by slowing down and backing off to increase the gap but it only does so once the car in front is fully in your lane. On several occasions I've had to touch the brakes to manually slow down because I can see a car entering my lane that the ACC hasn't got around to responding to; if I hadn't done so, I'd have ended up uncomfortably close to that car until ACC eventually responded. So it seems ACC is programmed to respond to a lane change in front only when it's been fully completed. In one direction it's mildly frustrating but in the other direction it has the potential to be dangerous. Has anyone else noticed this?

Well, as I've posted a lot over the last year and a half on various issues, especially ACC, I thought I'd better report that my dealer applied all the updates he could find for my car a couple of weeks ago, which has updated the level shown on the screen as 1896. He told me specifically that one of the fixes should cure the ACC problem (sometimes not passing slower traffic in a lane to my left). I've had a couple of weeks to test it now, including a round trip to the Lake District (from Hampshire) and a couple of more local motorway trips. So I've probably done at least 500 miles on motorways with ACC and can confirm that so far it has worked perfectly - at last. As others have reported, the Infotainment screen seems slightly more responsive too, a weird problem with Waze and Carplay has resolved itself (although that may have been a Waze update, I suppose) and so far no-one has flashed me when using the Matrix headlights on main beam, so I think they're working properly too. Furthermore, the Satnav now remembers favourites and recent destinations. I haven't had the SOS problem for a long time so I think that was fixed in an update earlier in the year. So, it seems that, although I would say there are many serious design flaws in the system, it is now at least working as designed. Thank goodness! One more thing, which may be my imagination. I have always found the noise generator annoying, so always a choose a drive mode that has it switched off. However, a few times recently when I haven't done so my impression has brrn that that noise generator is less intrusive, so I wonder if they've fine-tuned that a bit in the update?

No - in fact I've had it in various places in Hampshire and beyond. However, it's interesting you said that, as I have found odd behaviour with satnav (not just Waze) giving completely wrong locations sometimes but I've only noticed it when within a mile or two of the AWE. As I live nearby it's not a problem but the satnav has sometimes shown me driving across fields etc., on the way home.

I know this thread is quite old but it didn't seem to reach any real conclusion... I too have had this problem occasionally for a long time but, as of about a week ago, it seems to be doing it all the time. There are two symptoms: one is the pinkish hue on the whole WAZE map and the other is serious distortion of the picture to the point where it's unreadable. I can get one or other or both problems, but usually both. It always starts out fine but after a few minutes the symptoms occur. Rebooting the Infotainment usually clears it for a few minutes but then it returns. The attached picture illustrates both problems. Notice that the pop-up messages and the CarPlay navigation icons on the right are displayed correctly - it's only the Waze map that isn't. The problem occurs with the phone wireless or cable connected. My phone is up to date with iOS 15.5. Everything else works perfectly with CarPlay, so I don't think it's a generic CarPlay or Skoda problem but some quirk of the combination of Waze, Carplay and the Skoda Infotainment system. I like Waze but I've been trying the built-in SatNav recently, which isn't as bad as I remembered, although it doesn't remember any previous destinations, which is annoying. I've also been using Google Maps navigation, which works fine through Carplay and will probably be my preferred solution from now on if the Waze problem doesn't go away.