I had a couple-year-old Honda pilot for summer vacation, and I was wholly unimpressed with Apple CarPlay. Had to have my phone plugged in, so my wife couldn’t charge without disconnecting nav (admittedly our fault for only having one charging cable). And you could only see one screen at a time: messages, map, or music. I’m sure part of that was the relatively small screen, but it wasn’t intuitive or easy to use at all. I vastly prefer having Apple Music as an app in my current vehicle and using that and the integrated nav rather than my phone.
That’s more an issue with the Honda than the app. My current Carplay is wireless, and there are options to have multiple things on screen at once. My prior car, which was a 2018, had to be plugged in though.
I had a couple-year-old Honda pilot for summer vacation, and I was wholly unimpressed with Apple CarPlay. Had to have my phone plugged in, so my wife couldn’t charge without disconnecting nav (admittedly our fault for only having one charging cable). And you could only see one screen at a time: messages, map, or music. I’m sure part of that was the relatively small screen, but it wasn’t intuitive or easy to use at all. I vastly prefer having Apple Music as an app in my current vehicle and using that and the integrated nav rather than my phone.
One of your problems here is fixed by having more than one charging cable, and the other isn’t actually a problem: there already is a multi-screen view that shows both music and maps together.
That’s more an issue with the Honda than the app. My current Carplay is wireless, and there are options to have multiple things on screen at once. My prior car, which was a 2018, had to be plugged in though.