Land Rover Route Planner

JLR - Land Rover

About this app

To be used in conjunction with Land Rover vehicles which are fitted with the next-generation infotainment system, InControl Touch Pro, the Land Rover Route Planner App allows you to navigate from door to door. Before setting out from your home, set your destination from your smartphone and you’ll be directed to your Land Rover as the app detects your vehicle's location. The smartphone app will then automatically sync with your Land Rover’s navigation system using the Cloud so your car will be ready to take over navigating soon after you get in. Once you've finished your in-car journey, navigation is then handed back to your smartphone, which provides any final public transport and pedestrian directions to your final destination.

In addition the Route Planner app also allows you to pre-plan trips and holidays by searching for places of interest or restaurants and saving them as favourites from your smartphone. You will then be able to access these saved locations from the in-car navigation system at a later date.

Note:
• Requires InControl Navigation Account to sign-in. Account can be registered from either your Land Rover’s navigation settings or landrover.here.com.
• As we systematically introduce InControl, specific features, options and its availability remain market dependent. This app requires that your vehicle be fitted with its relevant connectivity package as well as a Micro SIM card with a suitable data contract.

Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.

Ratings and reviews

Sucks. Zero stars. Don't waist your time. Does not update last parking location, nor allows you to delete this wrong location. Keeps forcing you to have last parking location as your starting point for any destination. Does not allow you to use current location as starting point. Fails to send directions to car even if you have the useless in-car data plan.

The app has some surprising omissions. Now significantly out of date. It has not been updated in some time, and this shows. You can plan a route and add way points, however you cannot edit the name of a destination or way point. You cannot set a motorway junction as a waypoint. You should be able to set a junction say Jcn 4 of the M40 as a way point. Room for improvement. More frequent updates to the app would also be good. No recent updates make this a very poorly supported app.

This app is a bit awkward to use initially but once you get use to its quirks it's actually pretty useful. Just wish you could enter arrival time ("arrive by" rather then just "leave at"). And add compatibility with other systems like google maps and waze would be useful too. Finally, it would be helpful to allow system set up via app (such as home and comute) rather then sitting in the car for half an hour.

What's new

Android Companion fails to run on Android 11 – fixed
Preferences are empty or not saved for Public Transport and Pedestrian only route modes - fixed
Unable to remove place from favourites list on Android versions below 10 -fixed
HERE SDK migrated to 3.17