I pick up my 2021 GT AWD PP on Tuesday. I have read a lot of disappointment that the new Infotainment screen is not a touchscreen, particularly given the tedious nature of entering a navigation address. But I also read that the MAZDA CONNECT app will allow search on your phone for an address which can then be sent to the car's nav with the push of a virtual button on the app. Anyone have experience with this to share? Sounds like a solution.

 

I just walked through doing that on the app; looks like it sends a POI to the nav system. I haven't been out to the car yet to verify it worked, but will update this post when I do.

 

Thanks! Dumb question: is a POI only a business/enterprise with a commercial name, or is somebody's home address also a POI? I would want to to look up homes as well as restaurants and tourist sites.

 

Just tried it with a residential address, and it also sent it to the car as a POI.

 

Great! Thanks!

 

Update: When I got out to the car, the nav system started up automatically, and asked if I wanted to navigate to the two POI's I had sent (via the app) earlier. Looks like it works!

 

Well, to me that is adequate compensation for the loss of the touchscreen! Excellent!

 

I had no idea I could do that from Mazda Connect. I had seen the map view on the app but never realized that it allows you to send an address to the car's nav.

 

i can do that but i cannot find the sent address in search of favourites. Can you find yours?

 

I don't think it would automatically make the new destination a favorite, but if you navigate to it, it should appear in Recent Destinations (or whatever that is called, I have not been in the car since reading this), and from there, you could make it a favorite.