Enhance your CarPlay experience by learning about new features and personalized settings that tailor your car’s display to your preferences.

Learn what to do if music starts playing automatically through your car’s speaker when you get in the car with your iPhone.

Find out how to send messages, listen to new texts, and make calls over WhatsApp directly from your car’s screen using Apple CarPlay.

Find out how to set up and use ChatGPT, Grok, Perplexity, and other AI apps on your car’s screen via Apple CarPlay.

Find out how to set your iPhone to automatically open Google Maps, Apple Maps, or another app the moment you start wired or wireless CarPlay.

Love Siri or hate it, get used to the best CarPlay voice commands for the sake of safety -- not to mention convenience.

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Use Voice Control in CarPlay to navigate apps, the Home Screen, and interact with your car’s screen without actually touching it.

Plug in this Mini Wireless CarPlay/Android Auto Adapter and your phone wirelessly connects automatically, every time you start the car.

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In surprising news, CarPlay could come to personal watercraft -- if this company can clear approval and technical hurdles.

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CarPlay receivers aren't new, but one with Spatial Audio is. Enter Pioneer Sphera CarPlay receiver with Dolby Atmos.

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Learn how to get active Live Activities from your iPhone apps on your car’s display when using wired or wireless CarPlay in iOS 26.

Follow these solutions to fix wireless and wired CarPlay issues on your new iPhone 17, 17 Pro, 17 Pro Max, and iPhone Air.

Learn how to add and customize iPhone app widgets to your car’s screen via CarPlay to glace at important information with ease.

This week on Cult of Mac's podcast: Nobody saw the bizarre new iPhone Pocket coming. And the press release? Soooo pretentious ...

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After years of avoidance, Tesla plans to add CarPlay to its electric vehicles to boost sales. That's a big win for Apple.

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iOS 26.2 beta brings a handful of improvements, including slick menu animations and extends Liquid Glass to more system apps.

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This week on Cult of Mac's podcast: Apple reportedly plans to pay a cool $1 billion a year to use Google Gemini to make Siri smarter.

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Despite CarPlay's ongoing popularity, its future is under threat. Automakers can't resist the profit they see in providing their own services.

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Apple's new iOS 26 operating system brings new wallpapers not only to the iPhone, but CarPlay as well, with 12 new options available.

BMW will not allow Apple to take over the screens on its vehicles, as it has no plans to support CarPlay Ultra.

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