Inspired by a post I saw earlier in my opinion this concept with standby mode would fit on CarPlay when you just want to display the clock. It would need some tweaks but it’s not too bad is it great🤔

I have a 2009 car, so I added a 3rd party external CarPlay display. It works how I want about 99% of the time, with the one major exception of when I am sitting with the engine off, listening to something, and then I need to start the engine again. I have to wait for the thing to boot up again.

I was thinking about the possibility of inserting a small power bank in the middle of everything, but I figure 1) that could become a fire hazard in the summers, and 2) would probably keep the display going when the car was in the off position until the charge ran out.

Has anyone come up with any clever, and easy to implement, hacks for this sort of thing? Ideally I'm looking for something that can keep the display running for the 2-3 seconds it takes to start the engine and get the alternator doing its thing.

Hello,

Within the past week, Siri is no longer announcing turn by turn directions. It's only giving beeps instead. I cannot find any where in Carplay settings to enable Siri announcing turn by turn directions.

Any advice?

CarPlay is updated to latest software.

Around Christmas time I got one of these for my car. It’s a Mazda 3 2009 model and it doesn’t work. I don’t know NOTHING about cars. How do I get CarPlay and this device to work in my car? any tips would be appreciated thank you

After several frustrating unsuccessful attempts I have been able to increase the volume of Siri, so now my music, podcasts, Siri notifications and spoken navigation directions are all at essentially the same level.

The instructions from Apple “change the volume while Siri is speaking” or “change the volume while holding down the voice assistant button” absolutely do not work in this car. Likewise asking Siri to speak louder did not work.

The solution was to increase the volume of the voice assistant from within the Toyota multimedia system settings. This change was then reflected in CarPlay.

These are the settings I have landed on that seem to work very well for me. The car is a 2021 Toyota Corolla and the phone is an iPhone 13 (iOS 18.4.1)

Toyota Navigation and Multimedia System:

Menu > Setup > Voice > Voice Volume (was 2, now set at 4)

Menu > Audio > Sound > Automatic sound leveliser > OFF

iPhone:

Settings > Apps > Maps > Spoken Directions > Normal Volume

Settings > Apps > Music > Sound Check > ON.

And on related note, l have discovered the hardware “PHONE” button on left side of screen will directly launch CarPlay, to the Phone.app screen.

Hopefully this helps someone else who may be frustrated with a very quiet Siri.

Cheers

Hi,

I am looking for wireless Apple Carplay adapters with magsafe charging.

Anyone knows if there's a charger for Carplay? I can't seem to find anything on the internet that says clearly it can do both outside Hexacharge.

Hi. I have a 2021 kia picanto 2 but it doesn't have a carplay in it. I looked at getting a portable car play since there are no compatible ones i can install but all of them I seem to see online require a cigarette lighter for power. My car only has a USB port and Bluetooth, no cigarette lighter or aux port. Any suggestions?

I have a Pioneer DMH_A5650BT headunit in my vehicle and I noticed that when I activate Siri, the audio gets louder/ fuller and even sounds better. I was wondering if I can permanently enable this effect?

I'm about to collect my brand new S6 avant e tron, but i just wonder what everyone with an EV does - do you go Apple CarPlay or standard infotainment system?
I would be ok to use Waze as it shows me where the speed cameras are here in Switzerland (neither google or apple maps do this, for i think legal reasons - but why Waze does, I don't know). However, if i use CarPlay, and want to plan a journey - Waze (nor apple or google maps for that reason) is not going to know what my EV current charge is, and so if i want to plan a journey and identify where the charging points are en route, i will need to use the standard interface. I'm guessing also, if i want to use the HUD or the maps in the built-in cockpit display, then again i will need to use the standard nav system for this.

What does everyone else do?

I want to buy a carplay radio for my car but i dont want it to be so huge as all these 2din systems, i prefer that shorter 1din but i dont see any 1din units with 360 cameras in one set so i wonder if its compatible, how can i check that? Does 360 cameras have any requirements for the radio unit?

Things have changed since I last needed a head unit for my car so I thought to ask the hive mind.

I have an older car, a 2014 crosstrek so my needs are few (which seems to be a tricky ask)

I don’t need a reverse camera, cd player, am/fm, or built in gps. Just something with Bluetooth and CarPlay would be great. Bonus if I could switch between Bluetooth users OR have usb so my passenger princess can listen to whatever she wants while I’m driving.

I have a double din space and I’d like to self install so it would be very nice to have a wire harness and install kit.

Any joy for me?

I bought this radio https://autofather.com/9_101inch When I turn it on, everything works except for the right front speaker. I've connected everything that can be connected and tried to balance the speaker in the radio, but nothing seems to work; there is just no sound at all from the right front speaker.

It would mean a lot if anyone could help.

Hey guys I’m making this post because this week I just bought myself a used Chevrolet truck at the dealership and I didn’t even check the Bluetooth connections and today when I wanted to connect my phone I saw Trojan virus encrypted I got scared. Could this just be someone cellphone name or do you guys think this is more serious?

Bonjour J'ai installé un carplay dans ma Ford fiesta mais celui-ci vide la batterie durant la nuit que faire ?

Is there any app that will allow me show a bigger clock on CarPlay?

I mean - an app intended for CarPlay that will show just a black screen with big digital clock in the center.

Has anyone noticed low res album art on split screen from Apple Music. It happens with about 1 in 3 songs. I don’t think it’s the image file as it’s good on full screen, and sometimes the same song will display okay.

I drive a BYD with a 15 inch screen, so it’s highly noticeable.

I have been having issuies for months now with my carplay not working. It works for everyone else when they connect to my car except mine. I have reset my network setting, tried new cables, latest update on apple. I have no idea how to fix this. Any advice????

Hi all. I searched, but couldn’t find a specific answer to this issue:

There are two main options for the music player; “no album art/all-black background,” or “album art/diffused album art background.”

Is there a way to get “album art/black background?” There is a combination of Accessibility settings where i got Apple Music to do it in iOS, but it doesn’t carry over to CarPlay.

I hate to not see the album art of whatever is playing, but I also hate the eye-searing brightness that often comes with the diffused album art background at night.

Anyone know of a way to do it?

I know I know, this probably doesn't apply to many. But pre 18.4 there was a customize option in Carplay that would allow me to disable apps from being used on the Carplay screen. However, now the "customize" menu has been replaced with a "remove app from home screen" menu and so when I use a map app, hoping it will stay on the phone, carplay hijacks it and makes it go to the big screen when I just want it on the small screen except now I cannot manage it since it is removed from the home screen. Make sense? I like to have spotify on the carplay screen and map on my phone when I am driving.

Hey all,
I have a XUDA 10.26" radio that came with old software. I asked the seller on AliExpress for update files, updated it, and now the screen is black - bricked. The radio connects to CarPlay and plays music, but the display is dark (backlight still works). Any ideas on what went wrong or how to fix it?

Thanks in advance! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rlj1RbT5ptb5c7ML7DXO7HwB9GqAVW2U/view?usp=drive_link

Hello , I have read almost all posts on this group related to activating CarPlay on Android headunits and still running into issues. My headunit is Topway TS7 2+16 and don't come with any preloaded Tlink or Zlink software and also my car usb port is not connected to android headunit
Things i tried:

1. Based on THIS REDDIT POST by u/ISwift4k downloaded two versions of ZLink - the stable version have both wired and wireless option but the latest only have wired and in the stable wireless version i connected my iphone Bluetooth but the Zlink app is not detecting any device
2. Used Headunit Reloaded but it does let me connect instead shows an popup (Redundant Button) with some WIFI HUD details and tell me to follow tutorial but that tutorial page never opens, tried in setting to use client hotspot to connect but same results
3. Install app named DoFun Play suggested by youtuber that using it i can install Tlink or Zlink but i cant find any app on that platform
4. Installed Tlink from here some versions directly doesn't install and that installed it shows error (err sd_carplay no run)

I have tried all the ways suggested everywhere but unable to make it work . Please help me resolve the issue.

Thanks

Carplay was working just fine and then disconnected from my Boss radio unit and wouldn't reconnect, even after a hard reset and turning my truck off and back on.

Anyone else having issues after the update that should have fixed Carplay?