• Honda Civic Tourer 2018

The HondaLink® app has added new and exciting remote control features like Remote Engine Start and Remote Door Lock, available for 2018 Odyssey Touring/Elite, 2018 Accord Touring and 2019 Insight Touring vehicles. Battery charge monitoring and control is now available for Clarity Electric/Plug-in Hybrid vehicles. Use HondaLink® with compatible Honda vehicles to access features, such as scheduling service appointments, roadside assistance, and more. Read below to find out which features you can use in your Honda today. Places. Send to Car is available in the enhanced Places tool, which allows you to search and send a destination from your smartphone to your compatible Honda vehicle (Available in 2016 Pilot, Civic, Accord, 2017 Ridgeline, CR-V, 2018 Odyssey, Clarity, Fit and 2019 Insight equipped with GPS Navigation).

Service Appointments. Find your assigned dealer, schedule your next service, contact them, and get directions. View or modify your service appointments made via your HondaLink® App Help. Access the Bluetooth® Connection Guide to help with the pairing of your phone (The 2016 Accord, Civic, Pilot, 2017 Ridgeline, CR-V, 2018 Odyssey, Clarity, Fit and 2019 Insight equipped with HondaLink® require Bluetooth® to enable HondaLink® in your display audio screen). Access the Cable Connection Guide for models requiring a HDMI cable connector to access features through the display audio screen (2014-15 Civic, 2015-16 Fit, CRV, and 2016 HRV equipped with HondaLink® require the HondaLink® Cable Kit). Link to the Official Honda Owners site for access to Owner’s Manuals, Technology Guides and more. View Frequently Asked Questions from Honda owners like you Support.

Easily access and call Customer Service. Quickly contact Roadside Assistance More information. Compatible with iPhone5/5C/5S/6/6plus/7/7plus/8/8plus phones with iOS 9, iOS 10, and iOS 11.

Requires registration with HondaLink®. The HondaLink® app also works as a standalone app on your smartphone for use anywhere, anytime when you are not in the car. Some services require use of GPS for location-based content. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. In addition, by utilizing GPS based services, you will share your vehicle’s location with American Honda and its service providers, though that information will not be used for marketing purposes or shared with unaffiliated third parties. GadgetB1 Finally updated for iPhone X! Early adopter problems I know lol.

Its a good app that works most of the time. The issue I have is with the feedback from the car. The app is slow to update if it even updates the cars status at all. Example I remote start the car sometimes it shows its started and how long its got left to run other times it just gives me a thinking circle and doesn’t update. Additionally the run time remaining doesn’t have live updates (or timer), you have to refresh the screen to get the time to change.

Finally I wish it would tell you how many times you can extend the remote start time. Instead it just gives an error if you have exceeded the run time. Also Honda whats up with the super short 10min run time, you can’t heat or cool a car that fast, extend the time or at least let users set their own run time.

I will say that the send to car directions works great 9 out of 10 times that I have used it. One time it said it sent but never showed up on the car. Finally updated for iPhone X! Early adopter problems I know lol. Its a good app that works most of the time.

The issue I have is with the feedback from the car. The app is slow to update if it even updates the cars status at all. Example I remote start the car sometimes it shows its started and how long its got left to run other times it just gives me a thinking circle and doesn’t update. Additionally the run time remaining doesn’t have live updates (or timer), you have to refresh the screen to get the time to change. Finally I wish it would tell you how many times you can extend the remote start time.

Instead it just gives an error if you have exceeded the run time. Also Honda whats up with the super short 10min run time, you can’t heat or cool a car that fast, extend the time or at least let users set their own run time.

I will say that the send to car directions works great 9 out of 10 times that I have used it. One time it said it sent but never showed up on the car. Tapping Version 3.4.3 downloaded on 3/2/18 to an iPhone 8 works great with my 2018 Clarity. Download and pairing w car was quick and easy even for this 63 year old Neanderthal.

Features such as range estimates, battery/charge/status information, climate preconditioning, charging locations, scheduling, etc are working as expected and updating every time I open the app. Only the odometer reading seem slow in updating but eventually gives the correct reading. But really, the odometer doesn’t need to update frequently. Is your car going to go somewhere without you? I can stop/start/schedule charging, see the battery charge state, and get a time remaining for complete charge. App indicated 30% charge and dash gauge had 6 bars and at 70%, 15 bars. I can also schedule the climate preconditioning from my phone whenever I am out of range of the key fob as long as both car and phone can connect to Honda’s server.

It appears that the Clarity is communicating by cellular data to Honda’s server and not by satellite or WiFi as some have speculated. Tested/proved this by parking under concrete parking garage where phone said there was no WiFi and I could still connect with Car when distant. I think the negative reviews were either because of old versions or attempted usage on older model Hondas. This app is really for the newer model Hondas.

So, bottom line: All features working with no problems. Version 3.4.3 downloaded on 3/2/18 to an iPhone 8 works great with my 2018 Clarity.

Download and pairing w car was quick and easy even for this 63 year old Neanderthal. Features such as range estimates, battery/charge/status information, climate preconditioning, charging locations, scheduling, etc are working as expected and updating every time I open the app. Only the odometer reading seem slow in updating but eventually gives the correct reading. But really, the odometer doesn’t need to update frequently.

Is your car going to go somewhere without you? I can stop/start/schedule charging, see the battery charge state, and get a time remaining for complete charge. App indicated 30% charge and dash gauge had 6 bars and at 70%, 15 bars.

I can also schedule the climate preconditioning from my phone whenever I am out of range of the key fob as long as both car and phone can connect to Honda’s server. It appears that the Clarity is communicating by cellular data to Honda’s server and not by satellite or WiFi as some have speculated. Tested/proved this by parking under concrete parking garage where phone said there was no WiFi and I could still connect with Car when distant. I think the negative reviews were either because of old versions or attempted usage on older model Hondas. This app is really for the newer model Hondas.

So, bottom line: All features working with no problems. Jaydog4372 I just bought the new Clarity plug-in hybrid, and I like how this app shows the current charge status and range of the vehicle.

It also allows me to start the climate pre-conditioning remotely. It's really clean and easy to use. It's frustrating that the charge status doesn't update anywhere close to real time.

The page refreshes, but the charge status lags by as much as two hours sometimes when it's on my home outlet (120v), which is pretty useless. There's no way to get it to'force refresh' that I can tell. So far, there's also a missed opportunity here in that it could interface so much more with the infotainment system, allowing you to explore and change your settings, upload pictures and apps, etc., from anywhere. Feels like they rushed it out. Which is fine if there's a future version with more functionality planned.

I only wish they'd share what the future plans are and when they plan to do more with it. I just bought the new Clarity plug-in hybrid, and I like how this app shows the current charge status and range of the vehicle. It also allows me to start the climate pre-conditioning remotely. It's really clean and easy to use. It's frustrating that the charge status doesn't update anywhere close to real time.

The page refreshes, but the charge status lags by as much as two hours sometimes when it's on my home outlet (120v), which is pretty useless. There's no way to get it to'force refresh' that I can tell. So far, there's also a missed opportunity here in that it could interface so much more with the infotainment system, allowing you to explore and change your settings, upload pictures and apps, etc., from anywhere.

Honda Civic Tourer 2018

Feels like they rushed it out. Which is fine if there's a future version with more functionality planned. I only wish they'd share what the future plans are and when they plan to do more with it.