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iPhone User Guide

Use the Messages app with CarPlay

Use CarPlay to send, hear, and reply to text messages from your iPhone.

Send and receive text messages

You can use your vehicle’s built-in controls to help send and receive messages. Open Messages in CarPlay, then do one of the following:

  • Hear unread messages or respond to a thread: Select a conversation.

  • Start a new conversation: Select 👁 the Compose button
    .

  • Automatically send messages: Skip the confirmation step when sending messages with Siri to send messages automatically, unless you ask to change or cancel it.

    In CarPlay, go to Settings 👁 Image
     > Siri (or Apple Intelligence & Siri), then select Automatically Send Messages.

React with Tapbacks

Tapbacks give you a quick and easy way to respond to a message, such as a heart or thumbs-up.

When you receive a message in CarPlay, you can respond with “like that message” to give it a thumbs-up.

Or select 👁 Tapback
and choose a different emoji.

Pin important conversations

Your pinned conversations from Messages on iPhone are now in the Messages app in CarPlay.

To lean how to pin a Messages conversation on iPhone, see Pin a conversation.

Note: If you’re viewing CarPlay Dashboard and Messages doesn’t appear in the recent apps list on the left, tap 👁 the Home button
to see pages of all of your CarPlay apps, including incoming text messages with CarPlay.

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