I use the ford pass app and navigation but not the website. My sync shows no updates available and is on 3.4.22251 the last I checked, probably 5-6 months ago. I have yet to plug in USB to vehicle and drive to upload the nav maps as of yet. Car is connected to my Wi-Fi when at home, but no modem subscriptions paid.
It just helps to keep you alerted if a new update comes out.
Agreed on ford programming for sure. I don't have ford connect either but what I was referring to in terms of paid modem subscription was where you can pay AT&T for them to enable the vehicle modem to have a mobile hot spot using the modem in the car, at least that is what shows up in my cars system when looking at the modem activation. AT&T will never get any of my money ever again since they jacked me around on cell phone bill over 20 years ago.
I bet it's gonna take a very long road trip to get it installed. (Not like I use the built-in nav anyway, but hurts my OCD not to have it fully updated in every component. 
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It took my car 39 minutes for the map update.Just wanted to chime in: I've been suffering with the Sync update not showing up on the Ford website after I installed it. Finally with this latest update (3.4.23188) it seems they fixed the issues with the update reporting.
Connecting the car to wifi did not report it back to them correctly, however I downloaded the Interrogator.zip file that someone posted here a few weeks ago, that instantly generated the XML file, I uploaded it to Ford and voilá, now they are aware that I am on the latest Sync version. ^^
Now I'm downloading the Maps update, apparently it's more than 22 GBs
You‘ve received all the free ones you are going to get. I’m in the same boat. Now we pay if we want them. ESP has no impact on maps.
That doesn’t sound right. I’ve never had a map update that quickly. Try and enter an address and see if it takes. I did this once only to find out I had an incomplete upload.
It took me 34 minutes, then I got a message that a key off, key on restart is needed and it will continue with the second part of the update. It restarted the whole Sync system regardless at that moment, on its own, a message popped up that system update successful and immediately started the same thing all over again. I wasn't sure if it's the second part or just the same thing, so I let it do it anyway.
So I removed the pendrive immediately.
My screen says I have the NA 2.20 map version.
Yea it is weird how they have it set up. I waited until I was sure the update was done, even a few minutes after. I then turned off my car, opened the door to make sure it is off and shut the door. I got back in started my car up again, had it search for an update with wi-fi and then checked my current version and it was updated.It took me 34 minutes, then I got a message that a key off, key on restart is needed and it will continue with the second part of the update. It restarted the whole Sync system regardless at that moment, on its own, a message popped up that system update successful and immediately started the same thing all over again. I wasn't sure if it's the second part or just the same thing, so I let it do it anyway.
It took again 34 minutes, system update complete. It started the update again, for the third time
A few hours later when I got back to the car, there was a tiny download icon in the upper right corner that didn't want to go away, it's the typical update in progress icon. I inserted the pendrive out of curiosity and in about 5 seconds it popped up the system update completed AND this time the "you can remove your USB drive" message as well. Now the Sync version page in Settings shows the correct maps version.
This whole update experience of Ford is super weird for me... but eventually it works somehow.
Ouch, thanks for the updateYou‘ve received all the free ones you are going to get. I’m in the same boat. Now we pay if we want them. ESP has no impact on maps.
Here is part of the email I received the other day from Ford.
It is a 3 part update for maps.It took me 34 minutes, then I got a message that a key off, key on restart is needed and it will continue with the second part of the update. It restarted the whole Sync system regardless at that moment, on its own, a message popped up that system update successful and immediately started the same thing all over again. I wasn't sure if it's the second part or just the same thing, so I let it do it anyway.
It took again 34 minutes, system update complete. It started the update again, for the third time
A few hours later when I got back to the car, there was a tiny download icon in the upper right corner that didn't want to go away, it's the typical update in progress icon. I inserted the pendrive out of curiosity and in about 5 seconds it popped up the system update completed AND this time the "you can remove your USB drive" message as well. Now the Sync version page in Settings shows the correct maps version.
This whole update experience of Ford is super weird for me... but eventually it works somehow.
