Since ios18 update, text messages do not announce in carplay unless the vehicle screen is the message screen. They will not pop up on any other screen. It will read them but but show the message. I don't want the audio announcement but I want to see the visual announcement when I'm on the radio screen
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I really hate this new update. When I’m listening to music, and I get a text, it stops the music sometimes it plays the notification sound which is new or it just starts Reading the text message. Not great when someone else is in the car. Seems the only solution is to make sure that it’s not on the text page. If I want to respond to a text, I have to switch it back over to the music page, etc., to avoid this. What a pain.
It is more than a bit shortsighted to think it is more safe to require users to continually have to switch screens while driving to see if a text message has arrived. That is only slightly more safe than having to pick up your phone while driving. What's the point of having car play at all if the main feature which makes it most useful is no longer operable?
If my phone is on silent I get nothing! Not even a vibration or a screen light. It’s beyond anything that could possibly make sense. If someone is sleeping on a road trip and you silence your phone but keep the music on, you won’t know if you got a message
I thought it was just me..this was NOT completely thought out..having to switch screens while driving to read and respond to msgs..apple needs to do right and revert back so msg bubble can show up on any screen!!
Safety reason....what a joke. So instead I have to press carplay, then press message, then press the message that is new. Makes zero sense when before I could just press the message that pops up and have siri read it!
So basically, Thought it was me. But before the update, it was reading my texts, so I wouldn’t even have to think about it. I just plug in my phone throw it on the dash call it a day. Now all it does is ding and ding and ding and to me that is far more annoying. Which makes it unsafe if you’re looking at your screen on your car instead of the road like I used to. Also, I’ve noticed that Siri does not respond in the manner that she used to after the update.
This update is for the birds! It’s more complicated now and have to take eyes off the road if I want to know who text me . Before it would just pop up on my screen and I could see who it was now I have to go over to CarPlay then message , listen to it and then reply. It’s awful.
Yes, I am also experiencing this issue. I’ve been told by my car manufacturer that it’s an iOS 18 issue and then Apple tells me it’s a Car manufacturer issue. I’m so frustrated. My old car (with wired CarPlay) did not have this issue. I got an update notification for iOS 18.3 today hoping that would fix this issue but it did not. Apple told me to have Siri read me my notifications automatically but there’s no option to respond this way so that does no good if the text is a question like what time are we meeting? Also what if you don’t want the entire car hearing your message. Apple needs to fix this and soon. Everyone experiencing this needs to notify Apple so that they fix it. I’ve called them twice about this issue.
yes, Apple told me to turn on “Announce Notifications” but there’s no option to reply so if the message is a question asking what time are we meeting tomorrow you then have to pick up your phone to reply. So what’s the point. I sure hope Apple figures out how to fix this and soon.
I’ll be happy to send a message to Apple. This is crazy. This new way is so much more complicated, and way more unsafe. It concerns me that Apple changed it and doesn’t seem to be too concerned about changing it back. All we can do is hope that people complain enough.
Yes, me too. I also thought I was losing my mind. Brand new car and my text messages are not coming through unless I am on the message screen. No ding, nothing. I am going crazy, and it makes me not even want to use Apple CarPlay. This is so unsafe and a royal pain. I am going on now to leave my feedback with Apple and hope that enough people complain so they fix this issue.
Just updated to 18.3 today and I'm sorry I did. My 2025 Mazda, that I use carplay with, doesn't read me text messages anymore and I can't voice text when I'm driving. Who thought of this sh*t. Totally unsafe. They really need to give us a fix.
Well Apple is going to lose the screen time battle bc I’ve just quit using CarPlay all together and have gone back to my car’s media interface. I’m sure others will follow if they don’t repair this problem.
Ask Siri to to send the message back to the person instead of reply… because that’s essentially what you’re doing. It’s not hard to figure it out. It only took me 15 minutes to read through the iOS car play for Subaru… I don’t know why everybody so dramatic about it
Got a new update today but it didn't fix anything. Perhaps the next one will address the carplay issues.
How do I enable text announcement in CarPlay after iOS 18 update
