6 Tips for Apple CarPlay!

Here are 6 little-known secrets of Apple CarPlay! Use these to master Apple's in-car UI! Did you know all of these? Share your favorite tips and apps down below!

Chapters ➡
0:00 Intro
0:09 Driving Focus mode
0:45 Smart home devices
1:16 Change CarPlay wallpaper and appearance
1:35 Announce notifications
2:11 New apps
2:58 Wireless CarPlay

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[FrasFs]

Can you just recommend a good wireless carplay adapter based on your experience?

[keithclasgens]

Is there a way to make it NOT automatically connect and start playing Apple Music?

[GZL]

My cars came with wireless CarPlay from the factory, and I have an automation setup to text me when I reach 80% charge. This way, I can use wireless CarPlay as well as plug in the phone to charge, then unplug it when it reaches the point where I want to make sure that the phone doesn’t get too hot and kill the battery life. I can unplug it when I get the 80% charge warning text, and my music or podcast isn’t interrupted. I’ve really grown to love this setup.

[DragonflyPunch]

One tip that a lot of people miss is that you can arrange the order of apps in CarPlay settings on your phone.

[greetp]

The garage door in HomeKit showing as 'updating' & 'this device is not responding', classic. 😁

[alex.delcastillo]

Wireless CarPlay has audio latency which is annoying and also on navigation the map is 2 to 3 seconds behind. As a result I only use it plugged in and wish it didn’t have these issues 😢

[TheLoad]

how do you get your compass direction on your dashboard

[johannesburgreal]

thanks. so what happens when there's an incoming call? does the maps screen get minimized in favor of the call screen? this would be an issue when navigating a tricky spot using one of the maps apps. thanks, .

[peterkapusi]

The biggest issue with carplay is that when you get a call during navigation, it flips to the call screen and then you have to come back to the navigation app. It is even more annoying if yo dont have a touchscreen so you have toogle back every time. Is there a solution for this?

[floydthorne]

Curious how you get the garage door feature to work. I ride a Honda Gold Wing motorcycle and would like to use it on the CarPlay with my SMART garage door opener.

[arjunrijal-kkbg]

Do you have any idea?Which waterproof carplay is best for indrive apps for moterbike riding and other riding apps like, indrive, uber for moterbike riding

[pward]

Is there a way to put personalized pics as CarPlay wall paper

[MrTimdtoolman]

I have a new Sony head unit in one truck with Carplay that I always use, and a 2018 F150 that has factory CP that I always use but neither display my garage door button when I leave or get home but it does display the shortcut on my phone when I get home. Is there a setting or shortcut that has to be turned on to make that happen?

[TheGreatPanicker]

This only works with iphones not ipods?

[Parthasarathynarayanan]

Hi, how to get directions list on screen showing the entire route?

[steverhinehart]

CarPlay does not function with Pandora on IOS 18. What do I need to do?

[bdwalton]

Any way to adjust ringtone volume on Apple Carplay?

[speca]

Does anybody know how to flip the split screen view? I want the map on the right hand side and the music control on the left. Thank you

[hurleylfd]

Bummer, I thought these were going to be new tips. All of these have been available for some time.

[stanpickersgill]

Why when connecting my iPhone to the car by cable CarPlay does not activate, the car screen freezes on my link, not all the time just at the wrong times, you can still have voice controls, radio, Spotify just no maps on the car screen. Travel a short distance and stop for fuel or anything get back in the car and maps works perfectly?? Why. Tried changing cables, turn off car and restart, tried turning off phone and restarting nothing seems to make it work, is it glitch???. Do you have any thoughts ??. Traveled to Queensland from south oz and back over a two week period and it happened once.