Siri Limited While Using CarPlay – Help Needed

Yesterday when I got in the car, I manually went into Spotify on Apple Car Play and there was a button to use Siri. Pressed that and for the rest of the day (even after turning car on and off) I could request songs again using my voice and I was even able to ask Siri a question and she answered it. I haven't tried using maps using voice command again yet. When I get in my car again today I will see if the issue seems to have been fixed (not sure why it broke in the first place though!). Fingers crossed no more issues

Why have a 'Hands Free' feature if one can't use it 'Hands Free' and need to use it 'Hands On' ?

Have to disconnect the phone and say "Go Home" or to someone's house in contacts, then reconnect the phone to CarPlay and have it show up on the screen.

To navigate to a business destination, open the Maps on the CarPlay screen, move the curser and go to Search, hit the Siri icon, it will say "Where do you want to go?", tell it, then it will navigate as before. Siri this way doesn't recognize my contacts tho - I can't tell it to simply have it connected and use 'Go Home' like before - even tho I'm parked in my garage.

Otherwise, I get 'Sorry, I can't show you the results while driving'

Iphone 12 IOS 18.3.1 in a '19 Lexus 300H

I have the same problem on my Audi. It just started post update to ios 18.3. Apple Music and Apple Maps don’t respond to Siri instructions. I get the same error. The maps and music work when I start them directly on my phone or on car play if I enter them on the screen.

I'm getting this using Apple Music. I don't even have any other music apps on my phone, streaming or otherwise. I have even tried summoning the voice assistant with the button my steering wheel and "Hey Siri," with verbiage of, "Play <song title> by <Artist> on Apple Music" I am speaking slowly and enunciating every word with a halfsecond gap between each word. Still Siri says "I can't show you results while you are driving."

This is frustrating. First world problem to be sure, but I really wish I could just downgrade to 17 until they fix this. I'm currently on iOS 18.3.1 on a 16 Pro. Given this, I am reasonably certain that it is NOT an issue with a non Apple app. One counterexample disproves a rule. Siri is confused and blaming the user for not knowing how to use a phone is not helpful.

Have you tried using Apple Music?

Spotify is not an Apple product. Contact the app developer here. --> App Support or Contact us - Spotify - Support - Spotify

Same issue for me too. The only way for me to have Siri to play certain playlist or music, I have to manually go into Apple Music app on CarPlay, and push "Ask Siri to Play" - which is not the method I want to use when I'm driving. (Besides, I can go to Playlist from there and manually press the one I want if I'm already pressing through the app) Not only music or navigation, but even a simple question like "How's the weather tomorrow" gives me the same "Can't show you the results while you're driving" or sometimes asks me if I want to use ChatGPT for the result. VERY distracting and unsafe while driving...

No solution unfortunately but same problem. It used to work for me up until I'd say this month. Looking at the dates on everyones comments, they've changed something recently which has caused this issue

I'm driving a 2021 Honda Civic that has a button specifically to summon Siri or whatever the Android equivalent is. I have done every troubleshooting step I can think of, and searching for more landed me here. While I do not like to see the frustration this is causing, at least I know I'm not the only one. This is good because I was beginning to think I lost my wits.

iOS 18.3.1 update just now didn’t fix it

Yes, and it doesn't work. Siri keeps saying it can't show me the results while driving.

Exactly the same here, along with the new Siri RGB flash making my car feel like a kids toy and horrible activation tone car play is ruined for me

I have the same problem

iOS 18.1.1

Volkswagon golf R

USB CarPlay

also Apple Watch 10, OS 11.3