Utilise CarPlay with your iPhone

Find out how to fix up and use CarPlay.

What is CarPlay?

CarPlay is a smarter and safer way to employ iPhone in your car, enabling y'all to stay focused on the road. When y'all connect your iPhone to CarPlay, you lot can become plough-past-plough directions, brand calls, ship and receive messages, heed to music and more than.

With iOS 13 and afterwards, the CarPlay Dashboard brings a simpler view of the road alee. The dashboard gives yous a single place to keep track of Maps, audio controls and Siri Suggestions, which provide easy access to things such as your Calendar events. Yous can fifty-fifty employ the dashboard to accept control of your HomeKit accessories, such as door openers.

Make sure your country or region supports CarPlay and your machine supports CarPlay. If you're not certain whether your machine supports CarPlay, contact the vehicle manufacturer.

Set up CarPlay

  1. Start your car, then make certain Siri is turned on.
  2. Connect your iPhone to your car:
    • If your machine supports CarPlay with a USB cable, plug in your iPhone using the car'south USB port. The USB port may be labelled with a CarPlay icon or a smartphone icon. Brand certain you lot use an Apple Lightning to USB cablevision.
    • If your automobile supports CarPlay both wirelessly and with a USB cable, plug in your iPhone to the auto's USB port. Y'all'll receive an alarm on your iPhone that volition offer to connect you wirelessly during your next drives.
    • If your car but supports wireless CarPlay, printing and agree the voice command push button on your steering bike. Make certain your stereo is in wireless or Bluetooth mode. Then on your iPhone, become to Settings > Full general > CarPlay and select your car. Check the manual that came with your car for more data.

Find out more than about CarPlay and how to change the map view in CarPlay.

Use Siri to control CarPlay

Depending on your machine, in that location are 2 ways yous tin use Siri to command CarPlay:

  • Press and hold the vox command button on your steering cycle. Then ask Siri a question or to practise something.
  • Touch and hold the CarPlay Dashboard or CarPlay Habitation button on your touchscreen. So ask Siri a question or to exercise something.

Siri will also make suggestions in CarPlay about what y'all may desire to do next, such as drive to your adjacent meeting. Siri Suggestions and CarPlay work seamlessly to go on your favourite apps at your fingertips.

If you take HomeKit-enabled accessories, such as a garage door opener, y'all can use the Siri Suggestions that appear on the CarPlay Dashboard, or you can simply ask Siri to do things for you, such as "Open the garage door" when you're close to your house.

Let Siri announce letters

With iOS 15, Siri can announce your incoming messages in your car. When this feature is turned on, Siri plays a tone, so announces the sender'south name and reads their message. If a message is long, Siri announces the sender's name and just says that they sent you a message. You can ask Siri to read the full bulletin.

To turn on Denote Messages from your iPhone:

  1. Open the Settings app, then tap Notifications.
  2. Tap Announce Notifications.
  3. Tap CarPlay, then plow on Announce Messages. From here, you can too modify when you want announcements to start.
  4. Tap Back to manage which messages Siri reads. Tap Messages, and then select either Time Sensitive and Directly Messages or All Notifications.

To turn on Announce Messages from your car's display:

  1. Open up the Settings app in CarPlay, then select Announce Letters.
  2. Turn on Announce Messages.
  3. Before you lot get-go driving, select Announce Options to choose whether messages you lot receive will be spoken aloud or non.

Apply your motorcar'southward built-in controls to operate CarPlay

Cars that support CarPlay should have built-in controls, such equally a touchscreen, rotary knob or touchpad. To detect out how to operate your CarPlay display, check the manual that came with your car. You tin can also employ Siri to command CarPlay, even if you take built-in controls.

Detect out more almost the common controls used in cars that support CarPlay.

Arrange your CarPlay apps

While using CarPlay, the display in your car will show your available apps. To add, remove or rearrange the society of the apps on your iPhone:

iPhone showing how to arrange CarPlay apps

  1. Go to Settings > Full general, so tap CarPlay.
  2. Select your machine. Then tap Customise.
  3. Tap the Add push or Delete push button to add together and remove apps. Tap and drag an app to change the social club the apps appear in.

The adjacent fourth dimension you connect your iPhone to CarPlay, your apps should announced on the brandish in the new order. Merely apps supported by CarPlay will announced on your brandish.

Modify your CarPlay wallpaper

  1. From your car's display, open the Settings app in CarPlay.
  2. Select Wallpaper.
  3. Choose the wallpaper you want to use, then select Set.

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