iOS 13.5 Siri will not open apps while driving

Thank you. That short cut worked for me too. Seems crazy to take a seamless simple process that everyone intuitively understood and make it more complex, cumbersome, and confusing than it needed to be, we already have Microsoft for that. I expected better from Apple, hope they change this back in a future update.

When you have the choice to manually use do not disturb while driving and that choice is taken away why have the choice. The answer is not to become a programmer and have to finagle short cuts. That is WRONG on Apple's part to even expect. Their little programmers and code writers should have issued a fix for this by now certainly there has been enough complaints by now... ... Even with the short cut.... You still have to unlock your phone (not hands free) or use face ID which means your phone has to be closer to your face than most car mounts allow (not hands free)

So this morning I said let me try Siri 1 more time While I'm driving to see what happens & it worked. The car emblem wasn't there & she pulled up whatever I asked her to. So hopefully it's fixed now

Joykeeppin. Well I just was getting ready to go to the store and the car is back on the phone when I put the vehicle in gear so I wondered if you’re still working right or back to the same car picture saying that Siri can’t work in car.

Thanks

I thought I was on my Bluetooth because I was in the car for awhile. Seems like I tried it again an hour later and it worked but has stopped working again Thanks for the information. Hopefully Apple will get this fixed soon.

shame on you apple. why is it that we can no longer decide for ourselves when/where/why we want things? i do not need a smart phone to decide when I can or cannot do things with my own phone.

It is totally obnoxious that I can no longer see what my phone is doing when I am simply connected to blue tooth and want to use Siri voice assist...

GRRRRRRR!!!

Hi. I tried to create a short cut on my iPhone 11 named Waze, or Pandora but those did not work. If I create a short cut for Waze it only brings up Maps. I am very frustrated that with this new operating update, I am not able to open Waze or Pandora or any third-party apps with voice command on Siri. To me, For those of us are so used to using those apps in the car, not having the voice command capability means we are using our fingers to press the phone while driving.

I’ve spent hours on the phone with Apple customer service and it is still not solved. I said I just want it the way it was where I can say, hey, Siri, open Waze or play pandora. I am so tired of her saying: “hmmmm, I can’t help you with that while in the car.” To me, this is not a big but rather, It was Apple’s conscious choice to block the usage of any third party apps anyway they can. Their Maps work in the car but I don’t like it as much as I like Waze. I don’t think it will be a quick fix. I am frustrated that Apple chose to do this.

I'm starting to lose hope too.

It's not even just a whim, it's actually a matter of safety — the whole idea of using Siri while driving is to avoid looking at the phone, and here we are, having to actually fiddle with the phone trying to do basic things such as using a different navigation app than Apple's own.

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I contacted Apple on June 26th regarding this issue & another issue I'm having. Supposedly they sent it up to the escalation team. The rep kept in contact with me through July 10th saying they're still working on it, and haven't heard anything back since. So I emailed the rep on July 31st to find out what was going on since it's now over a month that it hasn't been resolved, and haven't heard back from him yet. Now when I try to send a text in the car to a contact with 2 similar names, Siri asks which one I'd like to send it to. But I can't tell her which contact, I have to Look at my phone & not the screen on my car, to choose the person I want. Which defeats the whole purpose of being hands free while driving

Neither would I, I just want to be able to say "Hey Siri, navigate to [place] using Waze" and have it pass on the routing to Waze, instead of telling me "I can't do it while you're driving". Apple Maps is mediocre at best in my area, and Waze's voice recognition isn't that great (plus I could never get it work reliably, though that's obviously not on Apple).

What's frustrating is that it used to work just fine.

Not sure it is only apps because I cannot get Siri to open iMessage to read me a text or send a text using voice. This is a ridiculous update and makes it more dangerous in a vehicle. Apple listen to your consumers before you lose us all. We do not like this feature at all

Good to know. I don't program on iOS so I can not discuss about this. Then how come Spotify is now working? anyone noticed that Spotify was not working (just like Waze) on iOS 13.5 with Siri when driving and now it does?

I find it funny how it seems to work with Apple Apps but not 3 rd party apps (AGAIN), apple should have been all over this one as it could result in an auto accident with people fumbling with their phone while driving, so much for hands free which was working perfect before the 13.5 update. How could you break such an important feature that is safety related???? Apple, please resolve this.

Thanks - I just used it in our other cart - works without enabling the new feature. I di recall - at some point - inthe last coupleof weeks updating software on my RAV4 - it could have included a BT update that kicks that feature off.

I'm going to see what I can track down on it. Sometimes I luck out.