Lincoln Premium Connectivity Expiring What will I lose?

[Mark lll]

Good morning, just received a message that my premium connectivity will be expiring at the end of the month. Been reading different things about what you will be not be able to use if I dont pay the subscription fee. One said Blue Cruise, another said not for example

We have a 2024 so we only get one year free subscription, I guess the 2025 were offering 4 years free

Is the subscription worth it?

Any assistance is appreciated

Cheers

I just paid mine to extend services rather than wait to find out.

 

[Houtex]

I just paid mine to extend services rather than wait to find out.

I did the same a few days ago

 

[G-373880]

Thanks for all of your comments
I haven't noticed anything gone so glad I didn't pay any fees . I probably just don't use any features affected
Will advise the group if anything changes

 

[stronggeek]

Thanks for all of your comments
I haven't noticed anything gone so glad I didn't pay any fees . I probably just don't use any features affected
Will advise the group if anything changes

Same here. The most important things to me are remote start, scheduled remote start and Key as a Phone. They're all still present. Google maps still shows up and I switched to Alexa commands for voice activation. When I lose Bluelink I'll just pay for that month during the time I "need" it.

On a side note many other companies leave you with far less at expiration. I'm actually pleasantly surprised.

I'm good.

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[CliffDiver]

I caved in today and signed up for the Premium Connectivity package after a few weeks of not having it. For me, it was all about having map display on the upper screen full time. I could comfortably use Apple CarPlay Maps for navigation, which put a map up there. But I like a full map up there while driving without an active navigation going on. I glance at it while driving. I probably only “navigate” somewhere about 5% of my driving time.

I found that without the subscription, the remaining downloaded maps left up on the display were incomplete. I would occasionally be driving where there was no road displayed. And deep map details like buildings, stop lights and minor roads were just missing. As soon as I purchased the monthly subscription, the map display redownloaded and a lot of detail returned to the map display. I’m not happy to pay $15/month, but I’ll live with it.

It’s also nice to have the App Play Store back to fully utilize the car’s potential.

 

[markfm]

It’s also nice to have the App Play Store back to fully utilize the car’s potential.

Of course it would be nice if AudioWagon really worked properly - need more people complaining to Concierge about how you have to give permission for it to access the USB drive on every start.

This is not supposed to be the case - other AAOS-based vehicles have AudioWagon work fine after you initially give it permission; it's a bug in Lincoln's software build that they aren't saving the user permission for the AudioWagon app to access the USB device. Per the AudioWagon FAQ, on the Lincoln Nautilus FoMoCo did not implement the Google-supplied car-usb-handle piece of software correctly (or perhaps at all).

 

[Sharbotcom]

Of course it would be nice if AudioWagon really worked properly - need more people complaining to Concierge about how you have to give permission for it to access the USB drive on every start.

This is not supposed to be the case - other AAOS-based vehicles have AudioWagon work fine after you initially give it permission; it's a bug in Lincoln's software build that they aren't saving the user permission for the AudioWagon app to access the USB device. Per the AudioWagon FAQ, on the Lincoln Nautilus FoMoCo did not implement the Google-supplied car-usb-handle piece of software correctly (or perhaps at all).

So I kept complaining to the Concierge about not being able to play my music via the usb. My service manager went to bat for me also and between the two of them they got Lincoln to pay for my premium connected service for 3 additional years. I'd still like the usb functionality worki g properly, but i can at least continue listening to streaming music without depending on Android Auto or CarPlay.

 

[markfm]

So I kept complaining to the Concierge about not being able to play my music via the usb. My service manager went to bat for me also and between the two of them they got Lincoln to pay for my premium connected service for 3 additional years. I'd still like the usb functionality worki g properly, but i can at least continue listening to streaming music without depending on Android Auto or CarPlay.

Good for you, but we still need people to complain to Concierge.

This one really should be in the "easy" zone for them to fix.

Concierge staff are supposed to be smart relative to the software/UI part (at least Garrett, the Concierge I spoke with indicated this), so we need to get them to log use complaints about it, along with the info that it is documented in the AudioWagon web site FAQ, appears to be that Lincoln didn't implement the Google car-usb-handler properly.

Storing the user selection (permission for AudioWagon to have access to a given named USB device - that pop-up we have to okay every time), and checking that variable on infotainment startup really is a classic, simple, missed parameter, nothing exotic.

It's something we would call "low hanging fruit", an easy thing to fix to make people happier (get that one thing working properly).

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[angore]

I would think a battery SOC indicator on vehicle status screen and reported in app would be low hanging fruit. But one would argue it would create more complaints about SOC.

 

[Billz]

Good for you, but we still need people to complain to Concierge.

This one really should be in the "easy" zone for them to fix.

Concierge staff are supposed to be smart relative to the software/UI part (at least Garrett, the Concierge I spoke with indicated this), so we need to get them to log use complaints about it, along with the info that it is documented in the AudioWagon web site FAQ, appears to be that Lincoln didn't implement the Google car-usb-handler properly.

Storing the user selection (permission for AudioWagon to have access to a given named USB device - that pop-up we have to okay every time), and checking that variable on infotainment startup really is a classic, simple, missed parameter, nothing exotic.

It's something we would call "low hanging fruit", an easy thing to fix to make people happier (get that one thing working properly).

Lincoln has no interest in making the 2024 buyers happy. They have our money, they are done with up. Too many other issues to worry about some "silly" SW issues