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Its just the features from the app that stop working.
When you have service you are right apple maps/ or google maps is better but if you use your truck in rural areas like i mostly do cell service is hard to come by and the truck GPS still works
Android Auto (or rather the Google maps application on the phone) has the option to download maps ahead of time for offline use. You obviously won't get traffic updates when you're offline, but the navigation itself works.
Only good if you know you wont have service when its a surprise then its not very helpful if you need to find somewhere and you dont have service . Apple maps can do the same
No. You'll lose the ability to "send" destinations from your phone to the truck's nav system, though.
Thanks for the clarification. I have a hard time justifiying $259 per year for these services consdering that I haven't had a single OTA update since ownership, and my local dealership wouldn't update my UConnect in-house. I feel like features paid for upfront with the truck should work in full/proper without paying an additional annual cost...
OTA updates do not use your phone’s connection. They go through the built in cellular modem that the rest of the connected services use.
AFAIK that only provides a data connection if you have a subscription to a cellular provider. As long as the connected service is active, I guess that's the case, but not after.
Yeah, I don't know if they still work without a connected services subscription, though I'd be willing to bet that Stellantis keeps the data connection paid for even when you aren't a subscriber because otherwise they wouldn't be able to do any data collection. The system won't do any updates over your connected cell phone either way though.
