CarPlay while Siri is disabled

I don’t have Siri enabled on my iPhone, my mother restricted it, so until now I wasn’t able to use CarPlay, but today I plugged it in and it worked, Siri is still restricted, I checked that hold down home button is set to Siri and nothing happens when I hold down, meaning it’s for sure still restricted, it doesn’t show up in setting either just like usual.

the only thing I played with since last time I plugged it in was Announce messages with Siri in the notification settings, I turned it on for a few seconds then turned it back off. So no lasting changes.

Can someone please explain why CarPlay is enabled now?

and by the way when I click new message in CarPlay or when I click on a message where Siri should turn on and read the message, nothing happens.

thank you

iPhone 8, iOS 14

Posted on Aug 11, 2021 7:32 PM

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Aug 12, 2021 1:50 PM in response to Eliklein02

Hi Eliklein02,


Thank you for participating in the Apple Support Communities. We understand that CarPlay seems to be working while Siri is disabled, and we'd like to look into this. Which version of iOS do you have? You can find the version in Settings > General > About.


Do you know if you're using the latest firmware version for your car?


Also, these articles have some information which may help:


Use Siri on all your Apple devices


Use CarPlay with your iPhone


Connect iPhone to CarPlay


We look forward to learning more about the issue.


Take care.

Aug 12, 2021 2:17 PM in response to Chris_C1

iOS version is 14.6.

It’s strange, unless it’s because I turned on the option announce messages with Siri and turned it right off, so maybe I did something that told my phone that I don’t need Siri to read me messages to me, and maybe that carried over to my CarPlay too that now even if I don’t have Siri to control my phone it will still work because I told my phone I don’t need it when I shut off the option.

Does this make any sense?

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