I have a third party DashCam/CarPlay unit I got from Amazon and I’m unsure how CarPlay/iPhone/Car are supposed to all work together. Before I got the CarPlay my iPhone connected to my car’s Bluetooth and I could play stuff from the phone over my car’s Bluetooth adapter into Auxiliary. All I had to do was switch to Aux then play on phone. Phone navigatio, Siri, phone calls would all play on the car‘s speakers.

With the new device, I connected my iPhone to CarPlay over both Bluetooth and its WiFi connections. Unfortunately sound will play on the CarPlay’s speaker instead of my car’s speakers. Is there a way to connect CarPlay to my car‘s Bluetooth adapter?

Something else I’m not thrilled about is when I’m navigating with maps, Waze, etc. the map shows on CarPlay, and step by step shows on the iPhone. Is there a way to customize this?

And what really pisses me off is Siri will often respond with (even if I’m not moving) “I can’t do that while you’re driving. You can do that on your phone but I don’t recommend it.” This will happen with me telling Siri to use the shortcut “Open the garage door” which opens my parent‘s condominium’s garage. This makes me physically open and use the app on my phone. Before CarPlay I could do this handsfree. Seriously Apple, WTF?

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Hi, On my car (2022 VW Touareg with latest software) the only way I can use carplay wirelessly, is to put a data sim in the car's sim slot and then use that data sim as a wifi hotspot to my iphone. Connecting to the car's wifi hotspot without any sim card in the car does not allow me to use carplay wirelessly - only wired in that case. Any suggestions? I have plenty of data on my iphone and it seems silly to have to pay for an extra data sim just to use wireless carplay. Have already asked around on various Touareg forums but without any resolution. Otherwise, I guess my only option is to buy a third party wireless adaptor in order to get rid of sim card?

Thanks

I recently had a Kenwood DMX809S installed in my 2010 CRV. I liked that it allowed for both wired and wireless CarPlay (for my iPhone 13 pro) and Android auto, in addition to regular Bluetooth.

The head unit has installed without issue, and all functions work, including CarPlay. Except, that is, Siri. Siri just does not seem to work consistently. When I connect to CarPlay, everything works. It connects, the sound quality is fine. I can play music and see my GPS screen. However, the "hey Siri" command works intermittently, if at all. I will get halfway through dictating a text, and the Siri bubble will disappear. Or I will say "hey Siri," and the bubble will appear and disappear within a second or two. Or Siri will stop speaking halfway through a sentence after I have made a request. I will ask Siri to place a phone call and it will hang up after one ring, saying that -I- disconnected the call, when I did not.

At first, we thought it was the microphone installed to go with the head unit, but I am able to make calls and requests through the microphone when I don't use CarPlay, but rather just Bluetooth.

Then, we (me and Apple Support) thought it might be a driving Focus I had set up on my iPhone. After we deleted this, it seemed to work for a day, then the same issue crept back in again, with me being unable to use Siri for telephone calls or texting.

As soon as I disconnect my phone from CarPlay, it (and siri) works normally again. I have tried every troubleshooting step that both I and Apple Support can think of; needless to say, Apple is baffled. We have reset all of my phone's settings, the head unit's settings, changed Siri's voice (for whatever reason, this was a troubleshooting step?) and countless other things-- no luck. The last Apple Support person I spoke wrote a lengthy report and sent it off to Apple's engineering department, and I am supposed to have a call with them on Sunday, though I cannot imagine there will be even more troubleshooting steps short of fully factory resetting my phone. Like I said, when not connected to CarPlay, I have zero problems with my device.

I have also ensured that the firmware on the Kenwood is up to date, though I have hard reset the device several times and turned it off/on/off/on to see if that would help, too.

Has anybody else had this weirdly specific CarPlay issue? Where it connects without issue, but Siri/phone calls are a big problem?

I bought a Hodozzy CarPlay screen for my son’s 09 plate Fiesta. It has developed a delay on the audio of a phone call. If I make/receive a call I can hear the person on the other end but when I respond they don’t hear me for approximately 2 seconds. There are no issues with my phone normally, which connects via Bluetooth. The CarPlay screen connects through the aux connection, but I have tried unplugging it and using the speaker that is built into the screen, and that didn’t make any difference. I can only think it has to be the Bluetooth transmission from the screen microphone to the phone, but I can’t find any way to remedy it. Anyone have any ideas?

I have a 2018 Volvo wagon and a couple of weeks ago I realized that my couple was getting capped at like 55-60%. I can turn it down but it won’t go past that point. The thing is that I can turn the volume up past it for things like navigation alerts on Waze.

I have searched all over and have toggled sound check endlessly and removed the car from my CarPlay list. The volume is actually not bad but i would like to turn it up with the windows down sometimes. Also, I have not had any alerts that I have had high volume issues and it happens whether plugged in or in Bluetooth.

Please help!

Hi there im new to this forum. I have a 2021 nissan sentra and my iPhone 13 Pro Max does not connect to the car whatsoever. I’ve tried everything, restarting my iphone, latest update, original apple cord, literally everything. I’ve connected 3 other iPhones with the same cord yet mine is the only one that does not. Whenever i plug in the cord, it asks me to pair and then the message goes away immediately then comes back again and so on and so forth. I’ve cleaned my iphone port with alcohol and yet still nothing. The only weird thing is every other iphone from the 7 all the way to the 15 connects effortlessly yet mine does not even allow me to tap allow when the request disappears Pleaseeee help cuz its driving me crazy One other thing it says ipod on the screen rather than iphone, again only my iphone has this issue.

Hi. I need to say, after my big road trip around the Europe, @Apple need to update own app. There are a lot of missing functions.

1. Outdated, inaccurate speed limits.
2. No clear, easy-to-read approaching POI’s or Road repairs on highway (parking, gas stations) with the remaining distance to this point.
3. Distance speed measurement - No mention of any
4. Any visual signals when u go faster than speed limit
5. It will be nice to add information ℹ️ when you cross the border of one country with another’s.

If you have more ideas💡please add to the list maybe some one from apple dev responsible for the application AppleMaps will see this 😜☺️

For carplay navigation apps, I read somewhere that Carplay uses the car's gps antenna instead of the phone's gps. Yet i cannot use any navigation apps in carplay if the gps (location services) is off on my iphone. Could someone clarify please? Car is 2022 Volkswagen Touareg. Thanks

Pioneer SPH-DA160DAB doesn't work anymore with android car it seems? I can't seem to connect my phone anymore... Anyone having the same issue? I think it has been removed from the competibility list aswell...

I've noticed that with wired CarPlay, when using Google Maps, if an alert comes in, the CarPlay connection will reboot. I've also been able to replicate this by using the voice microphone within Google Maps and canceling the request, which also causes CarPlay to reboot.

I've tried different iPhones, cables, etc., and the same result occurs. Is this a concern with Mazda's infotainment system? Has anyone encountered this, and how were they able to overcome it?

My family has an Audi A3 and my phone will not connect whatsoever. Mind you, before we all upgraded to the new iphone it worked just fine. I tried forgetting it and now I need to enter “the user ID”, it says.

Please add a toggle to disallow apps from interfacing through CarPlay. Every time my wife is riding passenger and goes to a game or Amazon, it takes over CarPlay REPEATEDLY even after asking it otherwise.

UPDATE: My bad there. My wife’s phone is the one connected and when we try to listen to satellite radio, CarPlay is constantly taking over to play silence. It refuses to let a situation where we have maps up on CarPlay, satellite radio playing, and her shopping on Amazon app. Thanks everyone!

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I recently installed a new head unit with Apple CarPlay but it doesn’t connect to my phone via Bluetooth. Whenever I hit search for device it just loads for like 2 min then nothing happens

I tried resetting obviously but was wondering if I fucked up with the wiring? I don’t think that’s even possible tho cuz it’s built in

Hello all,

I just mounted a Carpuride YT09 stereo to my car, which has no controls on the steering wheel at all. CarPlay works fine (I think; I never had it before) but, lacking physical buttons, I have no idea how I'm supposed to change the volume. The side buttons on my iPhone don't work, and Control Center shows a locked volume slider with the CarPlay icon.

The only way is to: tap the home screen button on CarPlay, tap the "Car Home" icon which exits CarPlay, tap the volume button on the unit's own home, move the slider. It's basically impossible to do while driving. (A separate issue is that it kind of over-amplifies audio, so that even though it goes from 0 to 39, the only sweet spot is 4 and 6; even 9 is already way too loud.)

Further, even when the general volume is set to an acceptable amount, Siri and other apps' navigation voices (e.g. Waze's) are incredibly low, and once again I seem to have no way to set it. I'm aware of how the iPhone keeps track of different volumes for ringing, general audio and so on, but since I have no way of changing volume at all while connected to CarPlay, that remains low.

There is a video on youtube with the same unit where an AssistiveTouch-like thingie shows up (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro2EAD-mJPg at 13:30), but I can't seem to get that to show. I also tried enabling AssistiveTouch on my iPhone, but it doesn't seem to "transfer" to CarPlay.

Can anyone please shed some light on how this is supposed to be done? I understand that CarPlay expects car controls to take over, but is there really no other way?

Thanks in advance!

Hey team,

Does anyone know a way of running an EQ on CarPlay audio?

I’ve been running PlexAmp tied to a Tidal account, and it’s worked flawlessly. But PlexAmp are cutting ties with Tidal, so now I face the possibility of having a shit sounding car stereo.. again.

Any ways around this that aren’t “use Apple Music” or “use Spotify”?

EDIT - it’s the factory Harman/Kardon head unit on a 2019 Subaru Liberty (Legacy). No the Bass / Mids / Highs sliders aren’t enough to make it sound good, and yes I’ve upgraded the speakers.

My Google Maps doesn’t work most of the time on CarPlay. My CarPlay defaults to Google Maps, but it just remains blank until I open the app on my phone (background app refresh is turned on).

Then while driving, the map will just freeze at whatever location I was at during that time. I have to go back on the phone and reopen the app to update my GPS locations.

Also, offline maps do not seem to work when using CarPlay. I travel frequently to remote areas of the US for work, most of which have super spotty cell service. I always download maps on google maps. As soon as I lose cell service, Google Maps totally loses it and I have to restart it on my phone. I tried Apple Maps once and it had no issues with this…

I love Google maps. I keep tons of lists of restaurants and cool hangout spots on it. I use it for travel. Basically one of my most used apps, but thinking of switching to Apple Maps when using CarPlay.

Hello, i’ve tried everything to get carplay to work on my 2020 Toyota Highlander but nothing seems to be working. At first, it seemed to work but only two random times. My car is also not coming up on Carplay in settings. Recently, I got a usb c to usb to try and see if it worked and it still didn’t. Let me know if there’s anything I can do. Thanks!

Hi,

I'm having trouble with my Carlinkit 5.0 device. It doesn't allow me to connect to any other Wi-Fi, although I'm pairing it by Bluetooth, not Wi-Fi!

Does anyone have any idea how to fix it?

Is there an option to display incoming calls only on iphone and not on the display of the car when the iphone is connected via carplay?