Hey everyone and welcome to our IOS 13 apple carplay update video now
I recently got the iOS 13 beta version on this iPhone 6s
And I was very pleasantly surprised when I plugged it into my car and it had completely changed the apple carplay system
Now Apple has done a lot of work
This is actually their first redesign of the apple carplay system and they've really worked on making it easier to use when driving
And also giving you a lot of features that people had complained about you know
Maybe it was hard to use this part of the system and they've worked on addressing that
So let's go ahead and dive into this system and see what this
IOS 13 update has actually done and see if it has made it a lot better
alrighty, so starting out here you are going to definitely notice that there is a lot of different graphics with this iOS 13 version of
Carplay, and you're also going to notice that we now have a home screen
So apple definitely heard a lot of customer complaints saying that we didn't have a home screen
Especially when the Android auto system had one and now we do
so off to the left
You have your navigation system as well as some recently used apps and it has also to adapt to what you've used
In the past or what your going to need to use what they anticipate you might need
But you still do have your regular home screen as well
So if you swipe over like I just did you basically will see what used to be the whole android or apple carplay system
So you have your tiles here just like on your iPhone
With your different apps and you can swipe over to get to your remaining apps and you're probably noticing one of the other big changes
for the iOS 13 update and that's really throughout the entire phone is
That you can put it in a dark mode as well as the white mode. You can pick between them
I've chosen the dark mode
So as you can see
Everything is dark and classy looking and it just really makes for a better look than I had before it looks a lot more premium
Now you do still have your typical
car play things so off to the side you have your three most recently used apps as well as your time your service and
This is a tile to go between the the home screen and the apps
So now that we're back at the home screen
I do want to talk about just how easy it is to use all of these just at the click of a button
So previously you had to go like in between the different apps and it was kind of annoying and hard to use while especially while
You're driving so if you leave it on this homescreen, and you need to navigate somewhere really fast
All you do is just tap in and as you can see it takes you right in
Everything is actually very quick in this new iOS 13 update and we can just tap again and we can search for a new destination
Now you can quickly search for stuff like gas stations parking restaurants coffee or groceries
So those like POIs things that you might be looking for you can easily just find here if you're not familiar with the area
so if we click on gas stations as you can see
It gives us about five different locations that we can go to all within like a mile radius
Now if you have a specific location that you're wanting to go to
you can use the voice commands to make it really nice and easy to use to go or
You can just type it in now. This is a very simple process since it does pop up a nice keyboard
So let's say we want to go to McDonald's and as you can see it pops up right there
I typed in MC and it knows exactly where I want to go
now if you hit destinations
It will show you some serious suggestions for where you might be going as you can see this right here the Home Depot
That's actually being read out of my calendar because I wanted to go to the Home Depot this this evening and it knows that
You know
I might want to go to the Home Depot so you can just hit
Destinations and it kind of knows where you want to go
It kind of anticipates where you want to go. Now. It also has a lot of different locations where you've been before
So if you want to go
To a spot that you've done before that is going to be located right here
Now going off of that. I do want to talk about the calendar
So this is a new app for the apple carplay system. The calendar is now integrated right here as you can see
so if you just tap into that as you can see I can see all of my
You know appointments and stuff that I have in the calendar right now
I only have one thing to do and that's go get a ceiling fan from Home Depot and
If I tap on it as you can see
it has the location here and I can easily navigate to it as I showed you before and
everything works extremely fast, and if I hit
Let's just go ahead and pretend like I want to go here now
So as you can see the actual navigation portion of the Apple map system has been changed for this iOS 13 version
so we have a our tile up here telling you your
most upcoming turn as well as down here and new is that you can now click on this and
you have a few functions inside of that so you can search here and
You can search for different things
Let's say you need gas before you get to the Home Depot
You can just hit on this and it will show you gas stations actually on your route so you can say all right
I want to go to this Shell and it's going to take you to that Shell and
Then you can resume the original navigation and back to the Home Depot
Which is a very useful feature so you can kind of add in stops
Now another thing that I've seen that it can do it's not really showing up here
But if we were going to like a let's say my friends we're going to hang out somewhere
And we have a destination set. It will actually allow you to text your friends and like update them on your location
Through clicking this so it would be like an ETA. So right here at 7:02 ETA. I can click on that and
It will actually allow you to send that to your most recent contacts
And tell them where you are and how far you are from going to be away from that destination
so that's actually a very useful feature and it definitely keeps your hands off of your phone when your friends are texting you and saying
Hey, where are you at now heading back to the home screen
now that we do have a
destination as you can see the map has kind of adapted to give us our
Destination as well as our ETA here, and it does also change this tile
From what it used to be to your upcoming turns
Now another one of the big changes though has to do with the music
So as you can see the second tile here is our music
And what Apple has really done with this updated
Car play system is they put a big focus on album art and stuff like that
so previously it just used to be the name of the song and that type stuff but now they can
Transmit the album art as well to the screen. So as you can see this song is playing right here and
It does have the album cover as well as a updated design for this iOS 13 version
Now you can hit the back button here and it will take you to the music app that you are currently using
So instead of like trying to push Apple matte Apple music a lot
It actually integrates Spotify a lot better than it did in the previous versions
So as you can see, it pulled up Spotify for me and it's very easy to use here
So you have your home right here with your mixes as well as your recent recently played playlist
And you do have your browse functions if you want a specific genre
Of music as well as your own library
So as you can see this works a lot better than it did previously
Honestly half of the time it wouldn't even load in the previous version of iOS
And now it works absolutely flawlessly and I can even do playlist and select
You know from my recent playlist as well as stuff that I have saved
And it really just helps to keep you less distracted when you're on the road
Now heading into the phone section this has also been
Changed from the previous version
So one of my biggest pet peeves here was when you hit the phone it automatically launched Siri
And I thought that was always kind of annoying because then you had to hit the back button to actually get to stuff that you
might be looking for
that has been changed for the iOS 13 version and you automatically launch into the favorites as well as your resets your
Contacts and you can also just dial right here and look at your voicemail
So that's actually a lot of new features that make it a lot better to use
I've already mentioned the maps and as far as the messages are concerned
This has also been revised for the iOS 13 version as you can see
It just pops up your most recent messages and you can click on them to read them and you can even scroll down
quite a bit
Probably your most
Recent ten text messages it will show for you and you can also compose a new message here and it automatically launches
Siri for you to voice command your message
Like I mentioned the calendar is a new app for the iOS 13 version and you do still have the Google Maps
option from the iOS 12 update
Now I have saved one of the biggest changes for last and that has to do with Siri
So Siri has actually been revised quite a bit for this iOS 13 version of carplay
And one of the biggest revisions is that it it works
Within the system. So if I if I launch syring here, it doesn't block the entire screen out
Which is something a lot of people complained about and I can also launch Siri
Without holding this home button or the button on my steering wheel. I can just say the phrase. Hey, Siri
Text drew, what do you want to say? Hey, how are you doing?
Your message to Drew says hey, how are you doing
Ready to send it
and
As you can see you can just say yes and have Siri send it for you hands-free or now
You can hit the send button manually. Okay on the screen so you don't have to listen to all her jibber
Jabber, if you don't want to you can just push the button on the screen, which really makes it a lot easier to use
And as I'm gonna go back and send another text message here
Send text to Drew
What do you want to say hey
Your message to Drew says hey okay ready to send it
And if I want to register drew says hey
I she can repeat it and
I can also
Do you want to say even change it if she does not say the right thing so I don't have to go through the whole
No, you're not. Correct, Siri, and she's gonna be like ran ran ran ran ran I can just do that right here from the screen
As you can see, I just got another text message and now instead of popping up on the top
It does pop up right here
Now if I click on this message, it will read it aloud to me just like it did before. How are you doing?
But would you write to be new features or?
Obviously she can just automatically just go through the voice commands like she used to be able to do
But now I can hit reply here. What do you want to say?
I'm doing good. Thanks
Your message says or good thanks
Ready previously. It did say you could call them
so let's say you got a text from
someone and
You didn't really have the time to reply to it or whatever and you needed to call them
You can just hit the call button on the screen and it will directly call them now another new feature
This is a pretty small feature is that we now have these settings so we actually have settings for our apple carplay system
So as you can see we can turn on do not disturb when driving
So if you don't want to get any text messages phone calls
Whatever if you just want to be left alone while you're driving to keep minimized distraction
You can turn on this feature and it will not notify you of anything when you were driving
Now like I was mentioning before we do have different appearance modes so we can set it to be automatic or always dark
I personally like the dark mode. So I've set it on my phone to be dark
So that's why that's checked off and we do also have different settings for these series suggestions
That was a feature that I was talking about earlier where it kind of predicts where you might be wanting to go you can turn
That on and off you can turn on on and off the album art on your music and that's pretty much about it
But it is nice that Apple does allow you to kind of customize the system
Whereas previously you were kind of just with how it was
And there is one last feature that I do want to kind of discuss
Apple has said that they've worked a lot to make the music integration better with this
So it's supposed to be able to if I hit the voice control button and say hey Siri play the certain song
It's supposed to be able to play that song
I'm not going to demo that right now because we don't get a copyright strike
But it is supposed to be able to do that, which is a nice feature
Well, that's pretty much up for this redesigned iOS 13 version of apple carplay
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