Toyota Entune App Reviews

After reading many reviews. I too was going to give them a poor review and an epic failure. But determination and some google searches I was able to find a YouTube video explaining how to properly set it up. I too was experiencing the same message that entunes could not be started up. But after a couple of setting changes. Low and behold the darn thing is working flawlessly now

My complaints are pretty much the same as the other reviewers. Cumbersome app that has to be connected every time I start the car, and even then does not always stay connected. Forget trying to sync saved addresses, its easier to look it up and input address each time. Disappointed that such a nice vehicle made by Toyota has such a crappy application, it ruins most everything that you try to do with the car.

Created "Owners" account on Toyotas web site, enter VIN - all works great. Try to register the vehicle for entune and it says the VIN is incorrect. Well, its not - the app is crap.

I’m kind of amazed at some of the reviews but feel for their frustration. Perhaps some of the issues have been fixed, but I’ve had mine a month of daily use - including an 8 hour road trip, and my Highlander experience with Entune has been pretty good. iPhone 5s/IOS9.3. Occasionally the app is not recognized when I get back in the car and if the app is running in background, I’ve found killing it and restarting works. Have never had to log in since my first install. I LOVE the pandora integration and may kill my XM subscription and just stay with that. Far better than my 2013 GM, and my 2010 Ford - (though Ford voice recognition was best of the 3). Siri voice assist works fine. Entune GPS is pretty typical, though I typically use WAZE as it’s better with traffic. I’ve had no problem with Entune running in background of waze. Text Notifications work fine for me - but you do have to enable it on your iphone by clicking on the “i” in bluetooth and enable notifications. Music recognition seems to work fine too. No problems with bluetooth disconnects ever for me in daily use. That said, the apps are limited and won’t get much use. Manually syncing saved locations should just happen on sync, shouldn’t be manual. The design of the app is dated, though, and I wonder if it will be maintained. I can’t imagine buying this car used in 5-6 years and being able to use this.

Why dont you just delete this app from the App Store all together What garbage !

This is horrible. Yes the app works, BUT its also a pain to use and yes it fails a lot. Toyota should have stayed true to CarPlay support. I would like to give my 2015 back

Slappy app Toyota. Programming is that of an amateur on iPhone 6S. This is a joke of an app with an F grade. Please update and fix this weak junk. Im sure Toyota can afford to fix problems a college freshman programmer could correct.

Entune is really bad! most apps useless. disconnects a lot. Spend some of those millions you make off your customers and give us Apple CarPlay damnit!!!!

I have been using this app for a week now and I am experiencing none of the glitches that some are reporting. I do not have to unlock my phone or open the app, I simply get into my truck and my phone connects. Ill update my review if any of this changes.

Forces you to login every single time you get in your car, also pops up on your phone as a notification every time you get in your car. Does not hook up your contacts to your display anymore then Bluetooth will. Deleted the app after five days. Toyota has a lot of work to do, I am very disappointed.

If there were a way to give Entune zero stars, I would. I have a 2013 Highlander Limited and iPhone 6s Plus. Most of the Highlander apps dont work because of the poor Entune / Bluetooth interface. The Toyota helpline is worthless.

I have a 2016 Camry XSE, I have read a lot of people having trouble with this ap and I have to agree, I cant even try it because supposedly I dont have the entune system, lol...... I do have it but my VIN doesnt show up on there list. I was reluctant to try it but I guess I dont have to worry about it know.

The only app within the Entune suite that has any usefulness is the Destination Search. Toyota, in this electronic age, has made the decision to lock out entering an address into the Navigation system while the vehicle is moving. So even a passenger cannot enter an address. The Destination Search App allows you to search for a destination and (with some gyrations) transfer the address to the car. But you can only do it once. There is no way, from either the car or the Entune app, to force a re-sync without turning the engine off! One star is too high of a rating.

Toyota needs to get Apple car play. This product never worked right from day one. Flaky and slow.

Works nearly flawlessly as long as I just stick to bluetooth audio and navigate from the phone. USB "iPod mode" seems to be designed for navigating an actual iPod from the head unit. Even plugging in an iPhone 6s causes stuttering in the music and eventually throws a power consumption error. The head units sad collection of "apps" pale in comparison to all of the hundreds of things which can be navigated more effectively and quickly via the phone. (Even the navigation nannies the user into coming to a complete stop before allowing further typing.) I have a feeling the "iPod" mode might work if I were to add a powered hub, but that would be quite insane. Ill just stick to my lighter adapter and bluetooth everything.

Theres no doubt that Toyota makes great vehicles. If you are in the market for one, buy a Toyota for its reliability, for its good resale value, or, if you wish, for its looks. However, DO NOT buy a Toyota because of Entune. You will be enormously disappointed. After trying Entune for quite a while now, I have concluded that the so called service is nothing more than a marketing gimmick used to entice buyers to buy Toyota. It is a logical deduction. After all, why a company well known for their reliability and quality will offer with a brand new vehicle a utterly useless and unreliable amenity like Entune? Why will they release a buggy and useless application clearly thrown together in a rush to support the service? Entune fails miserably in what Toyota promises to deliver. The application, and the service, is utterly inconvenient, poorly designed and unreliable. It complicates the lives of drivers with a series of unnecessary and often unreliable steps that ultimately gives less to the driver than what you can experience quicker and reliably with your mobile device. Clearly no one at Toyota had the desire nor the vision to develop a useful and reliable solution. To add pain to the experience, Toyota has managed to develop the most unreliable and mediocre application in my 100-plus collection of mobile applications. The radio software is equally disastrous but when it tries to interact with the Entune app, the results are as reliable as an 1987 Yugo. Toyota could, and should, have done better. They clearly dropped the ball with Entune. Unfortunately for Toyota buyers, I see no signs in the horizon of a desire to fix the service and give Toyota loyal buyers the experience they paid for.

This app would be great if it was 1995.

It is ridiculous that every time there is a new version of this app downloaded that I have to re-save my Favorites and the 4 contacts on my Home screen in my RAV4. You would think that the app would have the ability to set that info and retain it with each release and push it back when needed. Sometimes I also have to re-sync my phone to have it connect via Bluetooth as well.

Be great if it worked. Doesnt hold connection with the phone, and is just terrible. Toyota refers all questions to dealers, who know less than I do. Toyota desperately needs to give up and partner with apple or google. This is pathetic. Worst feature of my land cruiser is this app.

This app syncs well to the vehicle but is very limited to what you can do with it - they should put more apps in it.