Love my '21 Aviator, except...
The time it takes for all the software, maps, external devices, etc. to "load" after starting the vehicle seems really "over the top" slow. Sometimes it takes 30-45 seconds for everything to complete, and half the time it doesn't complete in time for it to recognize my ipod on the USB port, so I'm constantly having to switch back to it once it's finally recognized.
Today, we were on a trip, and I stopped for gas with the navigation system running. When I restarted after filling up, I made the mistake of attempting to disable auto start/stop (which I despise) before it completed reloading the system, maps and resuming navigation. This apparently triggered a bug in the software which rendered the touch screen totally unresponsive. So the next time we stopped, I shut off the car, then restarted it, and still no response from the touch screen.
Finally, I shut off the car, took the key fob and my cell phone and walked away from the car a sufficient distance to get out of range, then returned, restarted the car, and the touch screen started working again.
I had a '19 Nautilus which also was slow to load the software at startup, but nothing like this.
Any Ford engineering folks on this forum who could speak to this? It sure acts like either an underpowered CPU or an I/O bottleneck of some sort.