Apple CarPlay is AWESOME when you know how to use it! (FULL Tutorial)

carplay has been around since 2014 so there's a good chance that you've either driven a car with it or been in a car where someone else has been using it but be honest Beyond using it as a GPS do you actually know how to use apple carplay this stock iPhone function is actually really impressive but you need to know how to get the most out of it to get the most out of it stick with me until the end of this video as I show you everything that you can do in apple carplay running on the latest version of iOS 16 for this video okay let's get into it very quickly before we begin when we talk about carplay I'm talking about you connecting your iPhone to a compatible car entertainment unit so that you can see a carplay dashboard like the one you can see on the screen now there are two types of carplay connection wired and wireless and the one that you can access will depend on the multimedia units that you're operating for example in our main car which is a relatively new Audi we've got the option of both a wired and a wireless connection in our secondary car which is a 2008 Ford Focus we've also got the option of both but that's because I installed an aftermarket unit which offers both you'll need to check your setup to see what options are available to you why it is by far the most common but then regardless of what kind of display you've got the beauty of carplay is that it will function exactly the same in any vehicle once you're connected also to connect your phone to your car you're either going to connect via a USB to lightning cable and follow any on-screen instructions on your phone and car or if you're using Wireless carplay you'll need to connect via Bluetooth the exact method of connecting is going to be slightly different for each car and multimedia unit so you might need to refer to your manufacturer's instructions so the entire point of carplay is to try and give you a very iPhone experience but within your car and that's pretty clear when you view the main screen you've got very familiar tiles and tapping on each one will open the relevant app up the dots at the bottom represent the different pages of apps just like on your other Apple devices and you can swipe to scroll between the pages if you keep swiping from left to right on the screen you'll move back pages and eventually you'll get to a dashboard view this is where carplay will display what it thinks is the most relevant information for you split into sections the map will always take up the majority of the display here but you might also be able to see the track that you're listening to on Apple music or Spotify or whatever you're using perhaps your next calendar appointment may be a more detailed explanation about the next turn that you've got coming up if you want to view any of these apps in full screen mode simply tap on them so tapping on the map section of the dashboard for example will jump you into the maps app in its entirety and you could then tap the dashboard button to get you back to the dash board your most recent three apps will show here as well along with the time your current sell signal and battery status if you're using carplay wirelessly or if your connected phone is charging the little person icon that you can see on my screen here is my current Focus mode but I'm going to cover Focus modes later on this sidebar might show on the right or the left of your screen depending on your carplay setup obviously when driving the most important thing is that you're keeping your hands on the steering wheel and your eyes on the road and so in general you're going to be using Siri a lot while you're using carplay you can input things using the keyboard although your access to this is going to vary from vehicle to vehicle and whether you're driving or not some car manufacturers will remove the ability for you to use the keyboard while the vehicle is in motion for example essentially when you open maps and then tap on search if you have the keyboard option you can use that otherwise you're going to use Siri in terms of navigation you can be specific and ask it to direct you to a certain location or you can search so you could ask it to get you directions to a specific shop or business in a particular town or you could ask it to take you to a specific postal or ZIP code or full residential address if you've got an address stored against a contact you could ask Siri to get you directions to that specific contact so if I've got an address stored for John Smith I could just say get me directions to John Smith you can ask Siri to find you places to go for coffee near where you are or find a nearby gas station or petrol station as we call them here in the UK if you own an electric vehicle you can ask Siri to search for Ev charges near your location if your phone knows where your home address or your work address is you could ask Siri to get you home or get you directions to work you can access Siri at any time while you're driving and there's a few methods for how you might do this if you've got the trigger phrase enabled that I'll write on the screen now rather than speaking it out loud you can say this while you're driving and Siri will respond just like if you were doing this on your phone or your watch alternatively you can press and hold the dashboard button on your car's entertainment screen for a second or if you've got a voice control button on your steering wheel like we've got here in hours you can tap and hold that for a moment and it will do the same thing by the way if you prefer to have content like this in a written format there's a PDF to accompany this video and you can access it by joining my membership program where for a small monthly fee you'll get access to all video PDFs moving forward plus the growing library of old ones just follow the link in the description of this video this has become a channel member one of the great things about carplay in its current form is the ability to use lots of different maps apps so you might decide to use Google Maps or Waze or TomTom go with whatever suits you because it's the stock app that every iPhone owner has access to I'm going to mainly focus on Apple Maps so for this example I've asked carplay to find me a route from my current location if you notice on the map you've got a route marked out in a deep blue color but if there are other routes available to your chosen destination those would show in a lighter shade of blue and you can tap on the different routes to choose one carplay will typically choose the route that requires the least amount of time to get you to your location but you can see that you've always got the option to choose an alternative route if one's available if a route involves tolls or similar costs that route will be marked with a currency symbol to let you know at the bottom of the screen you can see your estimated arrival time the time to get there and the distance and this will of course update in real time as you're traveling so if you hit traffic or the system sees that you're about to this will fluctuate accordingly this might be on the bottom left or bottom right for you it will all vary depending on your car's screen also where it's available Maps will display the direction that you're currently traveling in and the speed limits of the road that you're on once on the route you've got a few different buttons that will change various settings at any point if you tap on the compass Arrow icon that will give you the detailed 3D map view with turn-by-turn directions that button will then turn to this squiggly line icon which is essentially representing a point A to point B view if you tap on that the map view will zoom out and show you the route in its entirety in 2D you can use the plus and minus buttons to zoom in and out of the map and if your screen is touch sensitive you can swipe to move around the map so if you're looking for something or you want to look ahead at the route for example at any point you can then tap resume but if you wait a moment the map will bounce back to your current location without you having to do anything anyway also whilst on the route you can tap on the upward pointing arrow in the ETA section to access some additional options you can share your ETA with someone via a text message you can add a stop to your route and you can report a crash a hazard or a speed check I'll be honest this isn't as up to date as a purely Community sat nav app like ways but it is pretty good the audio button allows you to choose how much Siri should speak out turn by turn directions to you if you tap on that you can then choose between directions being spoken or everything being muted or just having important messages and warnings being spoken to you I'd recommend that if you prefer not to have directions spoken out at least have this one enabled as Maps can now also include warnings of things like hazards in the road broken down vehicles and speed cameras while you're on Route a nice feature for Speed checks is that it will also warn you about them but if you're speeding it will also remind you to slow down it isn't as good as a mapping service like Waze but it's pretty good and might help keep you safe and a bonus tip while we're discussing turn by turn directions one annoying feature that I hear people ask about often is their Apple watch buzzing on their wrist while they're driving each time they come to a turn this might be something you find useful I really don't so there is a way to disable this if you open the watch app on your iPhone then select your watch then scroll down to Maps ensure the turn alerts are disabled for both driving and driving with carplay Siri can do more than simply help you access the map in directions but like anything related to Siri you need to know how to ask for what you want so for example if you want to call someone you would simply ask Siri to call that person and if they have multiple phone numbers like a work phone and an iPhone for example you could specify that you'd like them to be called on the iPhone you can send someone a message and you can do it via third-party apps not just Apple messages what's quite handy here is that your iPhone will recommend a preferred method of sending a text for you based on what you usually do so for example I typically message my sister using WhatsApp so if I ask Siri to send my sister a message from the car it will reply and say you usually text your sister using Whatsapp would you like to use WhatsApp for this message you can also send an audio message from the car if you like although I believe this only works via Apple messages you would simply say send an audio message to whoever you want to send it to rather than send a message to and your phone will begin recording you speaking you can set reminders while you're driving this is super helpful to me especially if I'm driving on my own I tend to get my best ideas when I'm driving or in the shower so if I think of something and I want to be reminded about it later I simply access Siri and ask it to remind me of whatever the thing is a much more practical example is whenever my wife and I use the Dartford Crossing which is a paid crossing here in the UK you have to remember to pay for it within 24 hours of making your Crossing so whenever we do it I immediately access Siri and say remind me to pay the Dartford Crossing charge tonight at 7 pm or whatever time works and it will remind me at that time for entertainment purposes I find it best if you specify the type of media that you want to listen to so if I wanted to listen to the off menu podcast I would ask Siri to play the latest episode of the off menu podcast if I wanted to listen to the album Illmatic by Nars I would say Play the album Illmatic by Nas this is handy as it stops Siri from mistaking albums for songs you can do this for playlists too and you can also specify which platform to play the music on your car will default to Apple music but if you say play such and such on Spotify for example your car should then oblige by the way if you're enjoying the content here why not consider signing up to my newsletter the proper weekly I include some tech news from the week a behind the scenes of what's Happening Here on the channel as well as a tip for an item in the Apple ecosystem the newsletter goes out each Friday it's free to join and I'll include a sign up link in the description of this video you can access various different carplay settings some from the car and some from your phone but you can't access everything from everywhere on your iPhone if you go to settings then General and then car play you can then view the carplay options for the cars that you've got set up on your phone if you tap on a car you can toggle carplay on and off as well as forgetting the connection with that car if you choose customize you can enable or disable apps and change the order of the apps as they're going to show on the carplay screen and this goes from top to bottom if you go to your car and choose settings you can choose to switch your driving focus on or off you can then choose the settings for how Siri should announce messages when they're received while you're using carplay under appearance you can choose whether you view using light mode dark mode or have your device automatically choose it for you and in wallpaper you can choose a wallpaper Siri and suggestions is exactly what it sounds like as is show album artwork I mentioned driving Focus mode earlier on and it's worth taking a moment to talk about this if we open settings then choose focus and then driving we can start to customize our driving Focus mode a focus mode is essentially a way of changing your iPhone's look and behaviors during a certain period of time so the example that I use the most is having one for work and one for personal where the work Focus mode has different apps showing on the home page and mutes notifications from certain apps and people we can set one up for driving which will automatically enable when your phone is connected to carplay the driving Focus mode is slightly different to other Focus modes and that it won't allow you to choose apps to override this like you can with other Focus modes it's essentially a case that only calls and messages will come through while you're driving which is a good thing if we're being honest here but you can tap into it where it says people and give certain people the ability to always contact you while you're driving or specifically stop certain people from contacting you while you're driving whatever you'd prefer you can choose to customize your phone and watch screen if you like I wouldn't bother with this personally but it's there if you want it so to finish up the video let me show you a few tips that are a bit more General and don't really fit in any of the other categories but I still think you might be interested in knowing you can share your ETA your estimated time of arrival with someone while you're driving via Siri you would simply access Siri and say share my ETA with whoever and Siri will send a text message to that person letting them know when to expect you you can take a screenshot of carplay if you ever need to I've used it for certain parts of this tutorial today so it is pretty handy simply take a screenshot with your connected iPhone the way that you normally would and your phone will take a screenshot of both your phone screen and the connected carplay screen and both will show in your iPhone's photo library your car can remember your parking location if you're using carplay simply disconnect and walk away and your phone will remember the last location where it knows you and your car were and it will mark this on maps as your parked car simply open Maps and search for parked car to find your way back to where you were I mentioned earlier in the video that there are other Maps options available to you other than Apple Maps these are going to vary based on region I'm in the UK so I can only really speak on the ones available here but Google Maps and Waze are the main two competitors that I know people use a lot over here Waze is great it shows you all kinds of user information that you don't get on the other apps and Google Maps is good if you want a satellite view while you're driving it's also worthy having a look in the App Store to see if there are any other carplay compatible apps that you might find useful here in Kent for example almost all car parks are managed by a company called Ringo where you can pay for parking via your phone they've got a really good iPhone app that's compatible with carplay you can literally get directions to a specific car park using their app it will just route you via your mapping software and once there you can pay for your parking without having to get out of the car or even access your phone final tip be careful with in-car wireless charging our Audi offers this and I thought this was great when we first got in the car but we did a 90 minute Journey with my phone on the wireless charging pad and when I took the phone out at the end of The Journey it was so hot it was almost too hot to touch and it lost a percentage of battery health in the process wireless charging is good provided the charging pad is ventilated if not I'd advise against it and switch it off if you have that option so there you go that's everything that I think you need to know about carplay right now in almost the middle of 2023. Apple have said that a major change is coming to carplay later this year and if that's the case I'll of course cover that when it launches but for now I think this should cover pretty much all of your carplay requirements what do you think any car play tips that I should have included here are you excited about the next version of carplay drop me a comment and let me know and as ever if you found this video useful do please consider leaving me a like and subscribing to my channel for more content like this in the future see you on the next video

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Length: 16min 4sec (964 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 19 2023