mithomas310
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I was having the same issues. I found that if after turning the truck on you wait until carplay connects before putting the truck in gear you wont have issues.
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I was having the same issues. I found that if after turning the truck on you wait until carplay connects before putting the truck in gear you wont have issues.
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A few questions as I work the bugs out on my CarPlay.
When CarPlay is connected, my phone says Bluetooth not connected, is this normal? And Bluetooth won’t connect. Yet my CarPlay is connected.
Do you have to hold down the voice button on steering wheel to ask Siri to do something? - sometimes I don’t, I just say Siri call Jason and it does.
Sometimes it works most times it don’t, so I read you have to hold the steering wheel button then say hey Siri…. I will try that.
When CarPlay is connected, my phone says Bluetooth not connected, is this normal? And Bluetooth won’t connect. Yet my CarPlay is connected.
Do you have to hold down the voice button on steering wheel to ask Siri to do something? - sometimes I don’t, I just say Siri call Jason and it does.
Sometimes it works most times it don’t, so I read you have to hold the steering wheel button then say hey Siri…. I will try that.
Tom Sellick
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The button will work for Siri but saying “hey siri” also works. I just say hey siri. Just saying “Siri” should also work if you are on latest IOS. I’m not sure but the car may require use of the button while speaking Siri out loud May get picked up by your phone….not totally sure. Both should work though.
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The steering wheel button IS NOT for Siri. It is for the Toyota Voice aid. It will not do Siri/Apple functions. Hey siri or Siri is the way to access CarPlay function. Hitting the car button will do the function that are associated with Toyota nav etc
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Tom Sellick
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Head out to your truck and try this- push the voice control button on the steering wheel quickly. See what happens. Then push and hold the voice control button on the steering wheel and see what happens. Of course, make sure you are connected to CarPlay.
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Tom Sellick
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Dude. You get a chance to tryout my little experiment yet?
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You either have to use Bluetooth to connect to CarPlay or you have to use it as wired to use CarPlay. It will only connect to CarPlay wirelessly when it’s connected through Bluetooth.
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Pretty sure CarPlay uses Bluetooth for the original connection and then it establishes a wifi connection for functionality when you are using a wireless connection.
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CarPlay will not let you use WiFi while connected to Bluetooth - not sure about android but I am sure about CarPlay. It’s a dumb system but that’s how it is.
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Wireless carplay uses Wi-Fi for data transfer (Maps, Music etc.). Bluetooth initiates the connection, then the actual data connection is on Wi-Fi. Bluetooth doesn't have enough bandwidth and needs Wi-Fi for the data transfer.
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The why does a message pop up when I try to select WiFi that says turning on WiFi will disable CarPlay?
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Cause you can’t have 2 wifi connections at once. For example, you can connect the car to your home wireless connection. But you can’t be connected to your home wireless and the CarPlay wireless at the same time. Hope that makes sense.
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Pretty sure if you connect to CarPlay with a wired connection, you could then also be connected for example, to your home network. You phone can only have one wifi connection at a time.
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It doesn’t make sense. For example. I’m in the middle of a forest with no WiFi for miles. The only WiFi capability I have is the onboard WiFi through AT&T. I select WiFi and it gives me the message that it will disable CarPlay. Not saying I know what’s right here. Just saying it won’t let me.
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