How Can I Sync iPhone to Car with CarPlay?

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How Can I Sync iPhone to Car with CarPlay?

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• CarPlay, the vehicle-mounted system designed by
  Apple, seamlessly combines the user's iOS device
  with the iOS experience with the dashboard system
  of cars. So to speak, CarPlay is the best partner
  of Apple's Siri and Maps. However, how to sync
  iPhone to car with CarPlay? Please keep reading
  to find out more information.

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Part 1. What You Need to Know about CarPlay

• 1. What Can CarPlay Do for You?
• CarPlay can help you access your iPhone while
  driving a car, including phone call, messages,
  music, maps, podcasts, audiobooks and more apps
  on your iPhone. And the whole thing can be done
  with Siri, touch screen of car or physical
  buttons in car.

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• Siri You can communicate with Siri and tell the
  car what to do next with Siri, for example,
  searching a route of somewhere with maps you can
  listen to the messages received from your iPhone
  through the car system, and also reply the
  message with Siri in the form of voice dictation.
• Touch Screen Some cars that supports CarPlay
  have a touch screen, which enables you to turn
  off/on the apps on main screen.
• Physical Buttons Besides Siri, you can also
  control CarPlay with physical buttons in car. You
  can turn up/down the volume of music, or change
  the song as you like.

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• 2. What Kinds of iPhone Models Support CarPlay?
• CarPlay now only supports the iPhone devices with
  lightning port. And iPad has the lightning port,
  but CarPlay does not support to work with iPad
  for now. And below are the iPhone models that
  works with CarPlay
• - iPhone X, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus
• - iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus
• - iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone 6, iPhone 6
  Plus
• - iPhone SE, iPhone 5s, iPhone 5c, iPhone 5

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• 3. Which Cars Support CarPlay?
• CarPlay is available in some selective car models
  like Ferrari, Honda, Hyundai, Mercedes-Benz and
  Volvo. And also CarPlay will cooperate with some
  car models in the future, including BMW,
  Chevrolet, Ford, Jaguar, KIA, Land Rover,
  Mitsubishi, Nissan, Opel, PSA Peugeot Citroen,
  Subaru, Suzuki and Toyota.

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Part 2. How to Sync iPhone to Car via Using
CarPlay

• Before the process, please make sure that both of
  your car and iPhone conform to the needed models
  of CarPlay, then you might start to connect your
  iPhone to CarPlay.
• Step 1. Get a USB lightning cable to connect your
  iPhone and vehicle on the USB ports.
• Step 2. Then your car will detect your connected
  iPhone and CarPlay will automatically launch.
• Step 3. Then you can select the appropriate icon
  from CarPlay menu to switch interface between
  CarPlay or vehicle's native infotainment as you
  like.

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• When using CarPlay mode, you can access your
  iPhone on your car now. So you can ask Siri to do
  what you want her to do with the car while
  driving.
• How to activate Siri function? You can press the
  voice control button on your car to access Siri
  and ask Siri to play music, make a phone call,
  send or reply messages or find driving directions
  and so on.