When I first start my truck (13 SD, 6.2 with Sync touchscreen) and shift into reverse with the backup camera screen showing and if I happen to get a new text message, the alert pops up on top of the camera image. If I click nothing at all (often don't have time to, notification is short), the home screen quadrant will then appear on top of the backup camera image with a small sliver of the camera image on top and bottom behind the home screen. If I shift out of reverse and back to reverse, I get the backup camera screen back.

Since my "deleting" messages on my truck doesn't do anything with my phone (Nexus 5), I get this problem every time I start up and go into reverse unless I wait for the alert to pop-up first and ignore it.

This started happening with the latest Sync update and I checked for any new updates, none to be had that I can see. I had it into the dealership yesterday who said they couldn't duplicate the issue although they failed to ask me to demonstrate to them with my own phone. Being I've had trouble with them in the past, that part was partly my own fault for "testing" them on that. I fail to see how a setting in my phone could control the screen behavior like this though, so I don't buy it.

Anybody else ever have an issue like this? With a handful of other problems related to that darn touchscreen, I've just disabled bluetooth syncing likely for good. It's pretty darn terrible.

 

Not defending mft AT ALL
but you can get all other phone features other than text notification if you want

after your phone is set up go into the settings - text notification and change it to none...

mine is set on speech, so I get the pop up but wonder why I have to hurry and stop focusing on driving in order to find the little "Listen" bar before it goes away in like .5 seconds

 

That is how I used it with my previous phone that didn't integrate with the texts. It worked ok before the Sync update, something got changed now though. I don't have a "none" option in the text alert message setting, only chimes and silent and they all show the message.

The phone part doesn't exactly work the best either, it's marginal for calling out but if somebody calls me, I bet 80% of the time I end up yelling "hello, hello....? can you hear me? hello?" and finally get connected. The other 20% I turn off BT and call them back.

MFT really sacked Ford with this stuff. Too bad, otherwise the truck is great but I wouldn't want another one with this screen. Give me heated seat actual BUTTONS!!!

 

Hi magjammer,

I can suggest a possible workaround. The system is set to notify you whenever you receive a text message, but I can definitely see how this might be problematic when utilizing the rear view camera. If you'd prefer to keep your text alerts from elbowing their way through, you would need to remove your phone from SYNC as a previously paired device, then vice versa. When creating a new Bluetooth relationship, when your phone asks you if you would like to allow SYNC to access your messages, simply click NO and the "Do not ask me again" check box. This should prevent SYNC from interfacing with the Message Access Profile (MAP) in your phone.

Antonio