Phone app missing in CarPlay after iOS 18 update on iPhone 13 Pro

After updating my iPhone 13 Pro to 18 I lost the phone app in car play. I cannot make calls from my car anymore. I reset CarPlay on my phone and my car and even tried to add the app but it’s not there. Please help


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iPhone 13 Pro

Posted on Aug 22, 2025 12:21 PM

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Posted on Sep 10, 2025 6:11 AM

I had already tried that a few times. I was able to work with someone from Apple and resolve it.

The reason "Phone" was not showing in Apple Car Play was because it was defaulted to "Require Face ID" which will cause it to not show in Car Play. If you hold on the app on your phone you get menu options for the app, you can turn that setting off.

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Sep 10, 2025 6:11 AM in response to rimi106

I had already tried that a few times. I was able to work with someone from Apple and resolve it.

The reason "Phone" was not showing in Apple Car Play was because it was defaulted to "Require Face ID" which will cause it to not show in Car Play. If you hold on the app on your phone you get menu options for the app, you can turn that setting off.

Aug 22, 2025 12:41 PM in response to annierich

Hi! If the phone app is missing in CarPlay, you can press the square or the 9 dots at the bottom left,

square: press one time

9 dots: press it 2 times.

you will get a full apps in CarPlay, and you can choose which call you wanna use, and if you wanna pin it, hold the app and put it at the two app pined. If that doesn’t work, you might wanna contact Apple support

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