Apply CarPlay with your iPhone

Learn how to gear up upwards and use CarPlay.

What is CarPlay?

CarPlay is a smarter and safer way to use your iPhone in the car, allowing you to stay focused on the road. When yous connect your iPhone to CarPlay, you can go turn-past-turn directions, make calls, send and receive messages, listen to music, and more.

With iOS 13 and later, the CarPlay Dashboard brings a simpler view of the road alee. The dashboard gives yous a single place to keep runway of Maps, audio controls, and Siri Suggestions, which provide easy admission to things like your Calendar events. You can fifty-fifty use the dashboard to have control of your HomeKit accessories, like door openers.

Make sure that your country or region supports CarPlay and that your car supports CarPlay. If you're unsure whether your car supports CarPlay, contact the vehicle manufacturer.

Gear up CarPlay

  1. First your auto, then make sure that Siri is on.
  2. Connect your iPhone to your auto:
    • If your car supports CarPlay with a USB cable, plug your iPhone into the USB port in your car. The USB port might be labeled with a CarPlay icon or a smartphone icon. Exist certain to employ an Apple tree Lightning to USB cable.
    • If your machine supports CarPlay both wirelessly and with a USB cablevision, plug your iPhone into the USB port in your car. An alert on your iPhone volition offer to connect yous wirelessly on your adjacent drives.
    • If your car supports only wireless CarPlay, press and agree the vocalization command button on your steering bike. Brand sure that your stereo is in wireless or Bluetooth mode. Then on your iPhone, get to Settings > General > CarPlay, and select your car. Check your car manual for more than information.

Learn more than virtually CarPlay and how to change the map view in CarPlay.

Use Siri to control CarPlay

Depending on your car, there are two means you can use Siri to control CarPlay:

  • Press and hold the vox control button on your steering cycle. And so ask Siri a question or to do something.
  • Touch on and hold the CarPlay Dashboard or CarPlay Home push button on your touchscreen. Then ask Siri a question or to practise something.

Siri besides makes suggestions in CarPlay for what y'all might want to do adjacent, such equally drive to your next meeting. Siri Suggestions and CarPlay work seamlessly to proceed your favorite apps at your fingertips.

If you have HomeKit-enabled accessories, similar a garage door opener, you can utilise the Siri suggestions that appear on the CarPlay Dashboard, or just ask Siri to practice things similar "Open up the garage door" when you lot get close to your house.

Let Siri announce messages

With iOS xv, Siri tin announce your incoming messages in your car. With this feature turned on, Siri plays a tone, then announces the sender'due south name and reads the message. If a bulletin is long, Siri announces the sender's proper name and says only that they sent yous a message. You tin ask Siri to read the total message.

To turn on Denote Messages from your iPhone:

  1. Open the Settings app, so tap Notifications.
  2. Tap Announce Notifications.
  3. Tap CarPlay, so turn on Announce Letters. From here, yous can also modify when you want announcements to start.
  4. Tap Back to manage which letters Siri reads. Tap Messages, then select either Fourth dimension Sensitive and Direct Letters or All Notifications.

To plough on Announce Messages from your motorcar's display:

  1. Open the Settings app in CarPlay, and then select Announce Messages.
  2. Turn on Announce Letters.
  3. Select Announce Options to cull whether letters will be spoken or non at the start of your drive.

Use your auto's built-in controls to operate CarPlay

Cars supported by CarPlay should take born controls, such as a touchscreen, rotary knob, or touchpad. To learn how to operate your CarPlay display, cheque the transmission that came with your car. Y'all can as well employ Siri to command CarPlay, fifty-fifty if you have built-in controls.

Learn more than about the common controls used in cars supported by CarPlay.

Arrange your CarPlay apps

While using CarPlay, the display in your car will prove your bachelor apps. To add, remove, or arrange the order of the apps on your iPhone:

iPhone showing how to arrange CarPlay apps

  1. Get to Settings > General, then tap CarPlay.
  2. Select your car. Then tap Customize.
  3. Tap the Add push button or Delete button to add and remove apps. Tap and drag an app to change the social club the apps appear in.

The side by side time yous connect your iPhone to CarPlay, the new order of your apps should announced on the display. Only apps that are supported past CarPlay will appear on your brandish.

Change your CarPlay wallpaper

  1. From your auto's display, open the Settings app in CarPlay.
  2. Select Wallpaper.
  3. Choose the wallpaper that you lot want to use, so select Fix.

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