Use CarPlay with your iPhone

Learn how to set up upwards and utilize CarPlay.

What is CarPlay?

CarPlay is a smarter and safer fashion to employ your iPhone in the car, allowing you lot to stay focused on the road. When you connect your iPhone to CarPlay, you can become turn-by-turn directions, make calls, send and receive messages, listen to music, and more.

With iOS 13 and afterwards, the CarPlay Dashboard brings a simpler view of the road alee. The dashboard gives you a unmarried place to keep runway of Maps, audio controls, and Siri Suggestions, which provide piece of cake access to things like your Calendar events. You tin even use the dashboard to take command of your HomeKit accessories, like door openers.

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

Fix upward CarPlay

  1. First your car, then make certain that Siri is on.
  2. Connect your iPhone to your car:
    • If your motorcar supports CarPlay with a USB cablevision, plug your iPhone into the USB port in your car. The USB port might be labeled with a CarPlay icon or a smartphone icon. Be sure to utilise an Apple Lightning to USB cablevision.
    • If your car supports CarPlay both wirelessly and with a USB cable, plug your iPhone into the USB port in your automobile. An alert on your iPhone volition offer to connect you wirelessly on your next drives.
    • If your machine supports just wireless CarPlay, press and concur the vocalism command push button on your steering wheel. Brand sure that your stereo is in wireless or Bluetooth style. And so on your iPhone, go to Settings > General > CarPlay, and select your car. Check your car manual for more than information.

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

Utilise Siri to control CarPlay

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

  • Press and hold the vocalism command push on your steering wheel. And then ask Siri a question or to do something.
  • Touch and agree the CarPlay Dashboard or CarPlay Home push button on your touchscreen. And then ask Siri a question or to do something.

Siri also makes suggestions in CarPlay for what you might want to do next, such as drive to your next meeting. Siri Suggestions and CarPlay work seamlessly to keep your favorite apps at your fingertips.

If y'all have HomeKit-enabled accessories, like a garage door opener, you can apply the Siri suggestions that appear on the CarPlay Dashboard, or but ask Siri to do things similar "Open the garage door" when you become close to your business firm.

Permit Siri announce messages

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

To turn on Announce Messages from your iPhone:

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

To turn on Denote Messages from your car'south display:

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

Use your car's congenital-in controls to operate CarPlay

Cars supported by CarPlay should have built-in controls, such as a touchscreen, rotary knob, or touchpad. To learn how to operate your CarPlay display, bank check the manual that came with your motorcar. You tin also apply Siri to control CarPlay, even if you have built-in controls.

Larn more about the mutual controls used in cars supported by CarPlay.

Arrange your CarPlay apps

While using CarPlay, the display in your machine 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. Go to Settings > General, then tap CarPlay.
  2. Select your car. Then tap Customize.
  3. Tap the Add button or Delete button to add together and remove apps. Tap and drag an app to change the order the apps appear in.

The next fourth dimension you lot connect your iPhone to CarPlay, the new order of your apps should appear on the brandish. Only apps that are supported past CarPlay volition announced on your brandish.

Change your CarPlay wallpaper

  1. From your car'southward display, open the Settings app in CarPlay.
  2. Select Wallpaper.
  3. Cull the wallpaper that you want to use, and then select Gear up.

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