Ford SYNC® Destinations App Reviews

Not only are older than 2015 Lincoln owners unable to use the Lincoln app (weird!) for anything worthwhile, they have to pay $199 annually to use this excuse of an app that should be free!! Thats why people pay more for the supposedly luxury version of Ford vehicles!! I own a 2013 Lincoln MKX, which is really a stylized Ford Edge. And now I have to pay for the use of this app! Bogus and another reason why technologically minded people will vote with their wallets and leave both Ford and Lincoln. How about some customer loyalty?? Plenty of other luxury car manufacturers who remember their customers who own older cars keep supporting their technology. Lincoln/Ford do not, so... later!

SYNC Destinations, SYNC Services & SYNC in general are all really useful & work over air time primarily. However SYNC is by Microsoft so dont expect anything after an iPhone4 to really handshake with all the features i.e. reading your text messages out load in the car. "Not compatible".

Why even release this app? Do yourself a favor and stay away.

Ford should be ashamed of themselves. App doesnt work at all. Says my password is wrong yet I can login just fine on every other device. Waste of time to download.

I put in an address or business name, it finds it, I choose "send to sync"., get in the car (c-max), say "services", it calls using my phone, sends address to car (takes about 60 seconds), and Im on my way. I use this instead of fooling around with navigation in "myford touch", which I hope hope hope gets updated with their new Motorola software or Apple software. Myford touch is ok, but not great yet. UPDATED 7/12/2016 Now asking to pay $60 per year to continue subscription ... Silly given that there are a lot of other apps out there who do similar things for free. Also they ask me to buy new updated maps every so often for over $100 each time. Really? The iPhone does the same thing for free. I love Ford, but these two things are disappointing.

This app doesnt work with Apple 9. OS. It has a glitch in it. Worked with older Apple OS. FORD NEEDS TO UPGRADE THIER PROGRAMMERS AND FIX THIS APP. I used this app a lot before the OS upgrade. I thought Ford would keep up with upgrades and fix this.

Used to be okay, now it wont work. Keeps asking for you to register.

Much to slow to recover from a missed turn. I cant believe this is being marketed to the public. Looks like another Edsel in the Ford line up

Cant specify state when you search for a hotel - so whats the point of using this for travel? Also Ford wants $60 a year for the privilege of using this limited functionality. Ummmm google maps is free, Ford, and I can enter in a town/state.

This app needs a massive refresh. It literally does nothing useful. Huge disappointment.

All in all a useless app for my use. I wanted to download destinations to my vehicle but has the least robust navigation feature that I have ever used. If this app is reflective of Fords ability to provide a useable product I better buy another brand next time.

Updating my rating to a two star, to reflect the fact that the app no longer signs into the server, even with my username and password. When connected via Wi-Fi, or cellular network, the messages "Cannot Connect to server " Ford is missing out on a golden opportunity to connect smart phones to their sink information system within the cars. I no longer use this to connect, fine, or send destinations to my car. The only thing that works is the old version of MapQuest. Even the new MapQuest fails to connect to sync. Otherwise, you cannot search for a destination on the web and send it to your car. Ford has built great cars, and created a wonderful in car infotainment system which is essentially worthless in so far as connecting to the Internet is concerned. As I often do, Im creating this rating to point out a flaw that is very annoying but could easily be fixed. The sign in screen has a little radio button that says "Remember me". If they could simply make that actually work, it would reduce the frustration i have with this app down to a "4 star" rating. I have to enter my username & password each time I go to use the app. Not cool.

Log in and the window freezes there, tap home and it wants you to log in....then freezes again. Vicious circle going nowhere.

Hate this app. It just loops back to the log in and my ford says to log in even though I already have. Then I have to log in again and again and again.

Terrible

Tried to get this to work in a rental car. You cant connect to your phone without this dumb app which has an impossible interface. No thanks. Not renting a ford again.

I have tried to logging in registered 8 times still says I dont have an account please dont wast your time I wish I could give 0 star rating

Glitchy, wont work in many modes. DWYT.

This app is great, until the free subscription runs out. I will Not pay $60 to use an app to load addresses into my Navigation! I just deleted the App for good.

I own a 2010 Escape with Sync and a 2014 Fusion with MySync. I use this app all the time to set my GPS destinations. Its much less cumbersome than the Microsoft-based system in MySync and invaluable for Sync. I dont know why others are having problems with it, but after 3 years of using it, I highly recommend it. In fact, even if youre in the car its easier to use the app to program a destination than to use the built-in interface on the GPS. This is in spite of the fact you have to call Services and have the destination download. In addition, this beats the awful, awful Ford website that is as slow as molasses and navigationally impossible to use. If youre relying at n the Ford website instead of this app, youre wasting hours of your time.