CarPlay ringer volume is painfully loud. It startles you beyond belief when driving.

I have the same issue in my new Volkswagen Passat. None of the things work and when somebody is calling it’s painfully loud even when I turned the volume down while the previous conversation.

Apple should add a separate volume control for CarPlay. It’s dangerous. The ringer is so terrible loud that I feel like I will have a heart attack each time somebody is calling....

I just figured it out!!

Ok so when your phone is plugge into CarPlay, keep your music off and use the volume buttons on the left side of your screen. You can also turn it down with these buttons while the phone is ringing. It just worked for me! I thought I was going to blow my speakers because the ringtone has been SO loud!! Now it’s exactly where I want it to be. You don’t have to go into any settings. No complication. Literally just turn the volume down with your screen not your steering wheel

I figured a way that solves the loud ringing issue. Went to Settings- Sound- to section that says “Ringer and alerts”. I turned that way down.

* You also have to switch the “Change with Buttons” to OFF.

Let me know if this works for you.

I have the same issue. Any time you adjust the volume, it adjust both ringtone and voice together. In normal use, the ringtone should be much louder than voice because we attach the phone to our ear when talking but not when it rings. However, we don’t attach our ear to the panel in car when talking, so the volume discrepancy should be in a different setting.

thats all well an fine but one the ringer volume is adjusted down you can't hear the persons voice on the other end. then one has to turn the volume back up, and when the next call comes in the volume is too loud again!

To be clear. I’m living in Europe and here it’s fully legal to drive and talk using eg CarPlay, ok?! We are not speaking about texting!

I just asked for some advise and you are not helpful.

Perhaps listening to music while driving should be prohibited too because it’s in the same way dangerous like talking through a hands free. Come on!

Patrykgr wrote:

I don’t talk on the phone while driving. I am talking through CarPlay/ Bluetooth (hands-free).

That is talking on the phone while driving. Handsfree does not make it any safer. Unless you're calling 911, any calls you're making while driving could wait until you are not driving.

What’s the difference when you have both hands on the steering wheel and you are talking through a built in microphone and listening through your car audio to your caller? It’s like you would listening to a song and singing in the same time. You don’t have the phone in your hands. It’s connected with Bluetooth to your car audio...

I really don’t see any danger in this situation

Give it a rest. You’re just being an internet troll. You went out of the way to avoid helping someone and start a fight. Anyone who reads this, knows what you are doing, and knows you are wrong. Go do something helpful for a change. By the way, I wrote this while watching a show, entertaining a toddler, and chewing gum. (Some people can multitask better than others)

Try this. When you are in your car, adjust the volume of the ringtone, while it is ringing. Not before, not after. While it's playing. Also, not on your phone, in your cars settings.

Enable Do Not Disturb While Driving. Settings>Do Not Disturb>Do Not Disturb While Driving>On. This will both prevent you from being startled by the ringer and will prevent other people on the highway from being endangered by you talking on the phone.

AppleDecatur3 wrote:

Hands free is safer than phone in hand because you then have two hands on the wheel.

No, really, it's not. Your attention is still elsewhere. Here is a nice infographic that explains the problem:

http://www.nsc.org/learn/NSC-Initiatives/Pages/distracted-driving-hands-free-is- not-risk-free-infographic.aspx

No one has to use hands-free. Not even you. If you do use it you are a menace to those around you, as well as yourself and your passengers. You are not the exception who can multi-task while maneuvering a 2 ton threat to human life. No one is.

So people in Europe can do things that are really stupid, because it isn't illegal? That doesn't make it any safer. Last I checked Europeans were human beings, just like the rest of us. And have the same limitations on their ability to multitask safely.

Listening to music is not the same thing, and you know it. You are just rationalizing.