Use CarPlay with your iPhone

Learn how to set up and use CarPlay.

What is CarPlay?

CarPlay is a smarter and safer way to apply your iPhone in the machine, allowing you to stay focused on the road. When you connect your iPhone to CarPlay, you tin can get turn-by-turn directions, brand calls, send and receive messages, heed to music, and more.

With iOS 13 and later, the CarPlay Dashboard brings a simpler view of the road ahead. The dashboard gives you a single place to keep rail of Maps, sound controls, and Siri Suggestions, which provide easy access to things similar your Calendar events. Yous tin even use the dashboard to have command of your HomeKit accessories, like door openers.

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

Fix CarPlay

  1. Start your automobile, and 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 motorcar. The USB port might be labeled with a CarPlay icon or a smartphone icon. Be certain to employ an Apple Lightning to USB cablevision.
    • If your machine supports CarPlay both wirelessly and with a USB cablevision, plug your iPhone into the USB port in your car. An warning on your iPhone volition offering to connect you lot wirelessly on your next drives.
    • If your motorcar supports merely wireless CarPlay, press and concur the vocalism control button on your steering bicycle. Brand sure that your stereo is in wireless or Bluetooth mode. Then on your iPhone, go to Settings > General > CarPlay, and select your automobile. Check your car manual for more than information.

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

Use Siri to control CarPlay

Depending on your auto, there are two ways y'all can use Siri to control CarPlay:

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

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

If yous accept HomeKit-enabled accessories, like a garage door opener, you tin use the Siri suggestions that appear on the CarPlay Dashboard, or simply ask Siri to practise things like "Open up the garage door" when you get close to your house.

Permit Siri announce letters

With iOS 15, Siri can announce your incoming messages in your motorcar. With this feature turned on, Siri plays a tone, then announces the sender'south proper noun and reads the message. If a bulletin is long, Siri announces the sender's proper name and says just that they sent y'all a bulletin. Yous can enquire Siri to read the total 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 Messages. From here, you tin can also change when you lot want announcements to start.
  4. Tap Dorsum to manage which letters Siri reads. Tap Messages, then select either Time Sensitive and Direct Messages or All Notifications.

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

  1. Open the Settings app in CarPlay, then select Denote Messages.
  2. Plow on Denote Messages.
  3. Select Announce Options to choose whether messages will be spoken or not at the start of your drive.

Use your car'south built-in controls to operate CarPlay

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

Learn more than well-nigh the common controls used in cars supported past CarPlay.

Arrange your CarPlay apps

While using CarPlay, the display in your machine will bear witness your available apps. To add together, remove, or suit the club 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 together button or Delete button to add and remove apps. Tap and elevate an app to modify the order the apps appear in.

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

Alter your CarPlay wallpaper

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

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