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Announce incoming text messages with CarPlay

Use CarPlay to have Siri automatically read your incoming text messages and listen for your response.

  1. On your iPhone, go to Settings > Siri & Search > Announce Notifications, then turn on Announce Notifications.

  2. Tap CarPlay, then choose any of the following:

    • Announce New Messages: CarPlay starts your drive with Announce Messages active and reads your incoming text messages aloud.

    • Silence New Messages: CarPlay starts your drive with Announce Messages silenced and doesn’t read incoming text messages automatically.

    • Remember Previous Setting: CarPlay remembers whether Announce Messages were active or silenced from the previous drive.

Note: You can also enable or disable Announce Messages directly in CarPlay by tapping Announce when Siri reads an incoming text message.

See Have Siri announce notifications.

Siri displaying Reply, Read Again, and Call options for an incoming text message in CarPlay. At the top left is a Cancel button, and at the top right is an Announce button.
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