CarPlay & Shortcuts

[Marky]

Hey all,

I’ve just managed to score myself a new company van that has CarPlay! I’ve been wanting to play with CarPlay for a while now, and so far I’ve been pretty impressed! - it could definitely be better, but just the fact that I can use Waze on my standard dash screen is a massive plus for me!

Waze and Spotify are the only apps I have that support CarPlay, and they both work very well.

Along with CarPlay, I also have a button on the wheel that will bring up Siri whenever I want, so I’ve been looking into the “Shortcuts” app...

I played around with it when it was first released, but I’ve never really found a use for it... however, Siri works so well in the car, I am looking into what shortcuts I can create/use to better utilise this technology.

My question is simple - Do you have any Shortcuts to recommend?

I’m still playing around with the app to get the perfect shortcuts, but I am keen to hear if anyone has found it if use in any way - Anything could be useful to hear and spark some ideas

Thanks in advance,

Marky

 

[Marky]

If you're not on the iOS 13 beta then you'll be glad, the new carplay update is really good!

No useful shortcuts to add really. I just mostly use it for Waze/Maps, Music and podcasts

I’ve seen some screenshots of it and it looks like a great improvement which is promising!

I’ve been tempted to update to the beta for it - but I read recently that Waze doesn’t work with it at the moment, can you confirm?