App-Connect

MirrorLink

  • Voice Control
  • Phone
  • Text messaging
  • Third-party apps
  • Volkswagen-developed apps:
    • My Guide with Yelp and Google reviews: POI recommendations based on vehicle date,environmental influences
    • Think Blue. Trainer: Informative, playful app,to improve fuel-efficient driving (MQB models only; delayed availability)
    • Call & Remind: Completion of to-do lists during drive including initiation of calls and voice memos to contacts
    • Personalization and productivity apps: Examples are "Play my favorite playlist if I drive over 60 mph" or "Launch specific app when connection to car has been established"
    • Sound Journey: Automatic creation of soundtrack for trip, based on driving data and selected music genre
    • Drive & Track: Recording of route including automatically generated waypoints
    • Shared Audio: Shared creation of a playlist from multiple smartphones
  

CarPlay

  • Siri Voice Control
  • Apple Maps
  • Phone
  • iMessage and text messaging
  • Music
  • Podcast
  • Third-party apps (may have some restrictions),such as Beats Music, iHeartRadio, MLB.com AtBat, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, CBS Radio, Rdio,Overcast, Umano and more

Android Auto

  • GoogleMaps
  • GooglePlay
  • Google Now Voice Control
  • Phone
  • Text messaging
  • Music
  • Third-party apps (may have some restrictions),such as Pandora, iHeartRadio, MLB.com At Bat,Spotify, Stitcher, Umano, Kik and more
                       
 
                       

Guide & Inform

Using a variety of data sources, Car-Net expands the collection of in-car navigation and GPS features, such as POI-send-to-car for safe and easy navigation to Points of Interest, and SiriusXM Travel Link for the latest in traffic reports, weather forecasts, movie listings, sporting event updates, and local fuel prices.

These Guide & Inform features work on Volkswagen models equipped with Discover Media or Discover Pro(although Discover Pro is not equipped with SiriusXM Travel Link services).


  

Security & Service

The Car-Net Security & Service subscription feature offers a variety of services such as Automatic Crash Notification, Remote Vehicle Access, Boundary Alert and Speed Alert, and Vehicle Health Report. A new feature for 2016 is a Digital Key with the ability to lock the Volkswagen's doors from the Apple/Android mobile app or the internet-based Customer Web Portal.