Employ CarPlay with your iPhone

Learn how to prepare and use CarPlay.

What is CarPlay?

CarPlay is a smarter and safer style to apply your iPhone in the car, assuasive you to stay focused on the road. When you connect your iPhone to CarPlay, you can get turn-by-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 you a single place to keep runway of Maps, audio controls, and Siri Suggestions, which provide like shooting fish in a barrel access to things like your Calendar events. You can fifty-fifty use the dashboard to take command of your HomeKit accessories, similar 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.

Prepare up CarPlay

  1. Offset your car, then brand sure that Siri is on.
  2. Connect your iPhone to your car:
    • If your car supports CarPlay with a USB cable, plug your iPhone into the USB port in your car. The USB port might exist labeled with a CarPlay icon or a smartphone icon. Exist sure to use an Apple Lightning to USB cable.
    • If your car supports CarPlay both wirelessly and with a USB cable, plug your iPhone into the USB port in your motorcar. An alert on your iPhone volition offering to connect you wirelessly on your next drives.
    • If your car supports only wireless CarPlay, printing and concord the voice command button on your steering wheel. Make sure that your stereo is in wireless or Bluetooth mode. So on your iPhone, go to Settings > General > CarPlay, and select your car. Check your car manual for more information.

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

Employ Siri to command CarPlay

Depending on your auto, at that place are 2 ways you lot can use Siri to control CarPlay:

  • Printing and hold the voice command button on your steering wheel. Then enquire Siri a question or to do something.
  • Touch and agree the CarPlay Dashboard or CarPlay Habitation push button on your touchscreen. Then inquire Siri a question or to practise something.

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

If y'all accept HomeKit-enabled accessories, like a garage door opener, yous can use the Siri suggestions that announced on the CarPlay Dashboard, or just ask Siri to exercise things like "Open the garage door" when you get shut to your business firm.

Allow Siri denote letters

With iOS 15, Siri can announce your incoming messages in your car. With this feature turned on, Siri plays a tone, then announces the sender'southward proper name 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 tin can ask 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 hither, yous can also change when you want announcements to start.
  4. Tap Dorsum to manage which letters Siri reads. Tap Messages, so select either Fourth dimension Sensitive and Direct Messages or All Notifications.

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

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

Use your auto'due south 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, check the manual that came with your auto. Y'all can likewise use Siri to control CarPlay, even if you take built-in controls.

Acquire more near the mutual controls used in cars supported past CarPlay.

Arrange your CarPlay apps

While using CarPlay, the brandish in your auto will show your available 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 push button or Delete button to add and remove apps. Tap and elevate an app to change the club the apps announced in.

The next fourth dimension yous connect your iPhone to CarPlay, the new club of your apps should announced on the display. Simply apps that are supported by CarPlay volition announced on your display.

Modify your CarPlay wallpaper

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

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