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Connecting my phone to the satnav in my car

mucky1957 — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 11:15:31 GMT

I have a basic pay as you go plan on my phone. I don't need or want a monthly plan. Wifi connects when I am home or somewhere that I have passwords.

I am looking at buying a newer car. It will allow me to connect my mobile to the car and use google maps app ( or any map app I suppose ) but I have to activate 'mobile data'.

Does using mobile data cost me money ?? I don't need to have the map up and running all the time, just on certain journeys.

Any help would be gratefully received.

Re: Connecting my phone to the satnav in my car

MI5 — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 11:35:39 GMT

@mucky1957

If you don't have an included data allowance you will be paying per mb of data.

Actual data costs for your tariff will be shown in your MyO2.

Re: Connecting my phone to the satnav in my car

jonsie — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 12:00:37 GMT

You can pre-download maps using wifi @mucky1957

Re: Connecting my phone to the satnav in my car

Bambino — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 12:32:39 GMT

@mucky1957 To add to the advice from @jonsie:

Download areas & navigate offline in Google Maps - iPhone & iPad - Google Maps Help

Download areas & navigate offline in Google Maps - Android - Google Maps Help

Re: Connecting my phone to the satnav in my car

mucky1957 — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 07:44:12 GMT

guys..thank you for the replies.

Apologies I haven't replied earlier..for some reason all your messages went to GMAIL spam??? and I have only just seen them

Re: Connecting my phone to the satnav in my car

pgn — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 08:25:44 GMT

Tagging Forum Manager @Dave-O2 about the Gmail Spam and Forum e-mails, @mucky1957 - it has been passed to Khoros, the platform provider, many months back.

Re: Connecting my phone to the satnav in my car

Enlli — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 08:33:09 GMT

Something we have complained about.

It's not just Gmail. I moved mine onto my own email and server and then had to convince it they were not spam