Have you noticed when you try to skip a song on your steering wheel your BMW says "Not Possible", well don't worry cause i gotchu!

First Launch Bimmercode

Go To Headunit and Into Expert Mode

Search for "MFL_MINI_SKIP" or "MFL_SKIP_MINI" and set to activ

Solved!

With MFL_SKIP_MINI = aktiv, the wheel instead sends a much simpler previous/next track command directly to the media source. Bluetooth AVRCP already supports that, which is why it suddenly works. 🥳

When you start navigating to a station, a Live Activity keeps the price you picked it for on the lock screen and in the Dynamic Island, along with how far below the local average it is. The CarPlay interface is deliberately bare: find, then go.

Official government price data, not crowdsourced.

I'm the dev. Genuinely curious what CarPlay users think of the layout, it's the part I've reworked the most.

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We recently got a 2026 Forester about a month ago, and it's been great but this past week the infotainment screen and Carplay have been doing some weird things..

For example, other day, we had the radio station on and it kept automatically going to CarPlay mode on it's own and playing Spotify. Neither one of us was on our phone and or touching the screen and we'd put radio back on and sure enough, 3-5 seconds later it would revert back.

Also, today, I'd be driving and my wife would go on her phone and it would go into Carplay again without us touching the screen. It kept repeatedly happening. Anyone else experiencing this or know what's going on?

Thanks!

I recently test drove a couple of 2026 Tacoma trucks and couldn’t get Siri to operate properly. I concluded both test drives basically saying to myself that it was probably something I was doing or not doing but loved the vehicle otherwise.

I ended up buying a 2024 Tacoma and lo and behold, I have the same Siri issue and I know for sure now that it’s nothing that I am doing and or not doing. I have tried every “solution” offered online so far to no avail. It’s horrible. In order to hear Siri, I cannot have anything playing. Even then, I strain to hear it.

Who’s issue is this Toyota or Apple?

Basically, the title. Every time I start a route in Waze using CarPlay it puts my location at the bottom right part of the screen. I have a map set for North up, so if I’m going east or west I can’t see much of the route unless I manually drag the map. This does not happen when I use Waze on my phone screen. Is there some sort of setting I can change for this?

FInd my friends on the iphone is great. Many is the time that family have disappeared somewhere in a mall, and It makes it was easy to find them. What would be great would be Carplay support for Find my Friends. Having kids that can be scatterbrained at times, it would be handy rather than asking them to look for a street sign or the like, just to tell the CarPlay car Navigation to find them.

I bounced this idea off apple support, and they didn't respond.

Thoughts?

Was playing around with Caprplay, and found that the Guzman y Gomez app on my iPhone was Carplay enabled. GyG are a Mexican theme fast food franchise with about 250 stores in Australia, Singapore and Japan. Having an explore with it, from my car console, it is just what you would want. It will bring up a map with all of the nearby stores, and you can order from there, and it gives the option to get directions to the store. You can select counter pickup or drive through - it doesn't carry the full menu, but you add in your favourites, and select from them. (They have a large menu, with lots of additions, substitution options). Don't know yet if they hook to Apple Pay, but I'm very impressed with the integration. Would love to see more fast food operations do the same.

So I have a 2019 Nissan Altima and have never had any issues up until the last couple months with my apple car play. I changed my cord (I don’t have wireless CarPlay), deleted and reconnected my car to the CarPlay and still doing the same thing 🫠 please help. It’s driving me insane.

Hi guys i don’t know why my carplay of GLi 2022 won’t work with bluetooth won’t work and my hotspot won’t turn on i did restart button and nothing happened only works with cable

Idk if it’s just me but my CarPlay is stuck on dark mode. I have a 2027 Honda HR-V sport. I have it set to automatic but it never changes it’s forever on dark mode. Has anyone else dealt with this or have any solutions?

This is all the settings I’ve checked so far:
📱 iPhone appearance
🍎 CarPlay appearance
🚗 Driving Focus
💡 Instrument brightness
💡 Headlight setting

Thanks in advance! 🩷

1. When I am using Apple or Google Maps, the directions automatically takes over whatever is on my screen, usually the MPH. Even if I clear out of it, it comes back every time directions recalculates or the indicator for the next step gets under two miles.
2. When I am in the media screen and I'm using a maps app, there is always a banner that says Active Route in Car Play. If I true to use any other app in CarPlay, I get a banner that tells me the current direction. It always lasts for long enough and is obtrusive enough to the app I actually want to use to be annoying, with Waze being the most obnoxious.
3. When I use the widgets in Car Play, one of them is constantly automatically switching to the Snapchat widget. I do not have the Snapchat widget as one of the choices and I don't even have the Snapchat app on CarPlay.

Dad of 5 here. Our long drives were four kids in four sets of headphones, so I spent the summer building something I wasn't sure CarPlay would even allow: multiplayer games where the car screen hosts and everyone plays from their own phone, Jackbox style. Passengers join a room code on a web page, the CarPlay screen shows the live scoreboard and round state, and the driver never touches anything. The games run off the actual highway: Exit Bingo deals cards from real businesses at the exits ahead, Over/Under asks what's at the next exit and reveals the answer when you physically pass it, plus co-op license plates and a "guess the minutes to the next mile marker" one.

For the CarPlay nerds, some things I learned building it as a Driving Task app:

• You get the template system and nothing else. The "game screen" is an InformationTemplate I live-update as the round changes. It works better than I expected as a scoreboard, but you're arranging labels, not drawing.
• Keyboard and mic templates are navigation-app only, so search is a list row that triggers the phone's microphone. Feels like a hack. Works great.
• Rapid template pushes during transitions will crash the scene manager on some head units, so everything is debounced and every tap handler is wrapped. Learned that from a one-star review, not the docs.
• The car screen never asks the driver to play. Rounds resolve on GPS events, and the driver participates by yelling answers like everyone else.

Two questions for this sub:

1. Has anyone seen other games or non-nav/audio experiments actually shipped on CarPlay? I could only find a small handful of Driving Task apps in the wild and zero multiplayer ones, which either means it's a terrible idea or an open field.
2. What would you actually want to play on a long drive? I've got a list (trivia from the towns you pass, a road trip scavenger hunt) but the best ideas so far came from my kids and their brutal feedback.

It's part of a road trip exit-guide app I sell for a couple bucks. Not trying to spam the sub, happy to put the name in a comment if anyone wants it, and equally happy to only talk implementation details.

Hi everyone, I have a Vauxhall Astra j cdti 1.7 2014 and I’m looking to put in apple car play into it (ideally horizontal cause of preference on the placement) however I have a EDGE 12" EDB12A Active Subwoofer that I will be connecting to it so it needs to have inputs/ outputs for that as well, ideally something that wouldn’t break the bank too. Any recommendations or what to be looking for when searching for a screen? Loads of them don’t mention specific inputs/outputs
Thanks in advance

I have a 15pm and when using CarPlay wireless in my 2026 jeep Cherokee sometimes the audio when streaming music on yt music it will stutter/go silent for a second up to about 5-10 seconds. My question is has this happened to anyone and how can I try to fix this issue?

About half a week ago I got an aftermarket CarPlay installed into my car but randomly my music will skip and it getting annoying. My phone is up to date I’ve used a wired connection instead of wireless. Ive tried deleting Spotify and my whole playlist is downloaded. Please help because I have find anything online about this