How to use carplay with Siri disabled on iPhone 17 Pro?

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How to use carplay with Siri disabled on iPhone 17 Pro?

Does anyone have issues with carplay while Siri turned off? Yesterday everything worked fine, there was no change to my iPhone or setting on my car, however today when I wanted to use carplay, which was always started when I started my car, I got a message that carplay requires Siri to be enabled. I use wireless connection to connect to carplay. I don’t want to enable Siri on anything I have. Siri is disabled on my Macbook Pro, my mac mini, and my iPhone 17Pro. I dont see any reason to enable Siri. I saw a previous discussion from November 2025 and someone suggested to the person who had the issue to use a cable to connect the phone to the car. Any help would be appreciated.

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Original Title: Siri and carpaly issue

Mac mini, macOS 26.2

Posted on Feb 6, 2026 9:25 AM

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KiltedTim

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Feb 6, 2026 9:37 AM in response to zoltan35

Siri is required for CarPlay to function.

it has been for a very long time.

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Answer 2

Feb 6, 2026 2:17 PM in response to zoltan35

Since CarPlay first was released in 2014 Siri, has been required. You have two choices. Either use CarPlay with Siri or don't use CarPlay.

You have to use things the way Apple engineered them to work.

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zoltan35 Author

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Feb 6, 2026 4:16 PM in response to LD150

Siri is enabled on my phone when I enabled Type to Siri, just for testing. After I confirmed that Siri was Up I disabled Type to Siri and Siri was disabled again.

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LD150

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Feb 6, 2026 10:18 AM in response to zoltan35

iphone Settings, Siri, go through every setting, eg Talk to Siri, and turn everything off.

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Answer 5

Feb 6, 2026 4:52 PM in response to LD150

LD150 wrote:

Just thinking, none of those settings disable siri, they just turn off user communication. Can Siri actually be disabled?

I don't know. I have never tried to disable, nor would I want to disable Siri. I use CarPlay a LOT. I use Siri a LOT.

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zoltan35 Author

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Feb 6, 2026 9:42 AM in response to KiltedTim

I am telling you that Siri was never configured on my phone and everything worked fine until today. I can tell you the configuration for Siri on my phone.

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