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Have any iPhone 5/5s/5c owners tried getting spoken directions from Apple's Maps app over BlueTooth? Apple added support for Hands-Free Profile (HFP) to their Maps app in iOS 7.1 which is supposed to allow you to get spoken directions over BlueTooth even when your receiver is set to something other than BlueTooth Audio. I've tried getting it to work, but the setup isn't quite what's described in various tech blogs (e.g. 9to5mac, macrumors, etc). To enable it, they all say to pair your phone with MFT and start navigating in Maps. You then touch a part of the maps and a blue speaker icon appears at the bottom right. Touch it, and the Navigation Voice page appears, allowing you to set the volume for the spoken directions. There's an OUTPUT section with iPhone and SYNC. Below that is supposed to be a toggle for Allow HFP Prompts that allows you to activate the new feature. The problem is that I don't see the prompt. Apple support can't tell me if that prompt is only supposed to appear under certain conditions. When navigating in Maps, each spoken step does indeed come through the car's speakers, but the first second or so are chopped off (e.g. "Turn left..."), which is kind of important. After each spoken step, I get a "Call ended" dialog. So I'm trying to tell if this is working as designed and is just a limit of the Hands-Free Profile, or if it's simply not working right. Does anyone out there have any experience with this? PS I have searched this, Apple's, and several tech forums and have not found any information.