KENWOOD Traffic 4+

Despite setting this app up, having my phone connect to the Kenwood head, and configuring the Garmin nav in the Kenwood head, this app has NEVER provided any traffic info or anything else in the Garmin navigation on the Kenwood. Of course the Garmin system on the Kenwood lets the radio down in as much as its like using Windows 95 on a present day Mac, but that's another issue entirely.
Oh and the Inrix app also randomly makes me re-login to my account and I dutifully do it hoping to see something appear in the Garmin maps, but of course nothing ever shows up.
This app along with the Garmin nav UI and the fact that you cannot update the Garmin nav maps without permanetly leaving an SD card slot in the radio (instead of using the card for say, MUSIC), and now the radio not working reliably when starting the engine makes me regret buying Kenwood and should have bought a cheap Chinese head. At least I wouldn't be out so much money when that failed.

This thing will come alive to notify when iPhone is connected to your head unit, interrupting whatever you’re doing or listening to—navigating, phone call, podcast. It overrides itself to demand an answer whether to connect. If you grant permission, the full app comes up to show connected, then sits there on the screen and doesn’t recede. You must intervene to go back to what you were doing. Apparently didn’t occur to whoever coded this to make permission sticky; to include an opt-out on the notification, or to have it recede once it informs you it’s connected. At least half the time it won’t register after you give it permission, so you have to go through the routine again. When that happens I kill the app. No good anyway, can’t recall getting useful information on my 994S. Stupid stupid stupid.

I upgrade from a DNX694S to a DNX995S for it’s navigation features some time ago.

On a trip to & through Seattle last fall I found the traffic information to be totally useless. The info was so little, and so lagged, it actually proved to be a hindrance. The one time it rerouted me based on traffic data, I ended up behind the traffic I had been in front of. I ended up switching to Google Maps which proved to be extremely more reliable with better real time data.

What’s the use of having this high dollar Kenwood if I have to switch screens to Google Maps for better routing and better traffic data? And doing that, the screen shows only Apple CarPlay stuff.

INRIX has been down for, what, about a month now?
I went back on line for a couple days then down again.

The last time it was down I had hoped for improvements, but it was not to be. They do keep extending the free subscription period but what for what good if it’s useless? And pay for a subscription? Not a chance!

The DNX995S is very good for sound, but so are other brands.
As long as Kenwood stays with INRIX I won’t buy another.