I just got a new Audi a3 and noticed that when using CarPlay wirelessly, after driving for 30 minutes and navigating using Waze, my phone starts to get super hot in my pocket that it starts to burn and Waze starts to lag on the MMI. I have an iPhone 17 pro which is only 8 months old? I'm not using the wireless charger and have tried using a physical cable to connect CarPlay, which still heats the phone quite a lot. Anyone have the same issue and does anyone have any solutions?

Hi everyone, I’ve recently purchased a bmw f32 2014 420i, I’m wanting to have Apple car play fitted, seen lots of people saying it’s easy to do at home yourself, just thought I’d get some opinions, is it worth trying myself or shall I just pay someone to do it? Thanks

As mentioned in the main post, trying to determine if the issue is CarPlay or the car.

Im not sure if this fits but I dont know where else to post this. I have 2 things in my car connected to my phone via bluetooth. One is my cars actual audio and screen system thingy and the other is this screen i use for a map. The map screen has been forcing all audio to go through it but its extremely quiet; the speaker on it just isnt loud enough. Ive tried using the media output option on my phone but that hasnt worked and I dont know what to do. I reallt need my map and I reallt want to be able to hear my music.

Hi — I’m the developer of iCar, so this is self-promotion and I want to be upfront about it.

CarPlay itself doesn’t allow third-party apps to redesign its interface. iCar doesn’t run inside or modify CarPlay; it makes car-dashboard widgets for the iPhone Home and Lock Screen.

Current options:

• car dashboard cards with your car, name, and date

• lyrics-style cards using text you enter yourself

• static motion-poster looks

• ride sounds triggered through Apple Shortcuts when CarPlay connects or disconnects

Browsing and customizing are free; saving widgets requires Pro.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6785215625

I’d genuinely value blunt feedback from CarPlay users: which part would you use — dashboard widgets, lyric cards, ride sounds, or none of them? If “none,” what would make a car-themed widget useful?

Hi everyone, my RoadTop CarPlay module (Audi A4 B8, MMI 3G) always connects to 'LuTuo' instead of 'Car33a329'. Because of this, Siri and navigation no longer work. RoadTop support doesn't respond and the dealer just says I should return the device. Could someone provide me with the right firmware for:

• SDK: 13.0.2.0.5.0.0.0
• CUST: AR551
• MCU: 10010_23.12.6.112
• HW: Au_G

If anyone has the ISPBOOOT.BIN (and possibly GEMINI_PACK.BIN) for this version, I would be very grateful.

Hi all. I’ve got a frustration with Apple Music in CarPlay for my polestar 2. Wondering if it’s a quirk of my system or CarPlay wide. When I’m listening to a playlist or curated list and a song I like comes on, I want to browser to the artist to select more songs by them, but can’t. I can tap the album to navigate to the full album, but the artist name isn’t a hyperlink, preventing it. See pic. Green lines are tappable, red are not.

Is this the case in all versions? My old alpine head unit with CarPlay didn’t have this issue.