Use CarPlay with your iPhone

Learn how to gear up 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 you lot connect your iPhone to CarPlay, you can get plow-by-turn directions, make calls, send and receive letters, listen to music, and more.

With iOS 13 and subsequently, the CarPlay Dashboard brings a simpler view of the road ahead. The dashboard gives y'all a single place to proceed track of Maps, sound controls, and Siri Suggestions, which provide easy access to things like your Calendar events. You can even apply the dashboard to have control of your HomeKit accessories, like door openers.

Brand 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.

Set up CarPlay

  1. Start your automobile, then make sure that Siri is on.
  2. Connect your iPhone to your machine:
    • If your car 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 employ 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 machine. An alert on your iPhone will offer to connect you lot wirelessly on your side by side drives.
    • If your car supports only wireless CarPlay, press and hold the voice command button on your steering wheel. Make sure that your stereo is in wireless or Bluetooth mode. Then on your iPhone, become to Settings > Full general > CarPlay, and select your car. Check your motorcar manual for more data.

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

Use Siri to control CarPlay

Depending on your car, at that place are two means yous tin can utilise Siri to control CarPlay:

  • Press and hold the voice command button on your steering wheel. And then enquire Siri a question or to do something.
  • Bear upon and hold the CarPlay Dashboard or CarPlay Home button on your touchscreen. Then inquire Siri a question or to exercise something.

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

If yous take HomeKit-enabled accessories, like a garage door opener, y'all tin employ the Siri suggestions that appear on the CarPlay Dashboard, or only ask Siri to do things like "Open the garage door" when you go close to your house.

Let Siri denote messages

With iOS xv, Siri tin can 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 only that they sent you a message. You can enquire 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 plow on Announce Messages. From here, you tin also change when you desire announcements to start.
  4. Tap Back to manage which messages Siri reads. Tap Messages, and then select either Time Sensitive and Straight Messages or All Notifications.

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

  1. Open up the Settings app in CarPlay, and so select Announce Messages.
  2. Turn on Announce Messages.
  3. Select Denote Options to choose whether messages volition be spoken or not at the kickoff of your drive.

Utilize your car's built-in controls to operate CarPlay

Cars supported by CarPlay should have born controls, such every bit a touchscreen, rotary knob, or touchpad. To acquire how to operate your CarPlay brandish, bank check the manual that came with your automobile. You tin also use Siri to control CarPlay, even if you take built-in controls.

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

Arrange your CarPlay apps

While using CarPlay, the brandish in your car will show your bachelor apps. To add together, 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 together button or Delete push button to add together and remove apps. Tap and elevate an app to change the order the apps announced in.

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

Change your CarPlay wallpaper

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

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