Play music, podcasts, audiobooks, and news in your car

Enjoy songs, podcasts, audiobooks, news, and more while you drive.

  • Use CarPlay to control your audio

  • Use Siri to control your audio

  • Customize your settings for driving

Before you start driving

Use CarPlay

After you set up CarPlay, you can play content from the Music app, Podcasts app, Audiobooks app, and News app while driving. Some third-party audio apps are also available in CarPlay.

To control what's currently playing, use Now Playing.

Music

Podcasts

Play the latest episodes from your shows in Listen Now, or choose from the episodes in your Library. You can also stream popular podcast episodes from Browse.

Learn more about Apple Podcasts.

Audiobooks

You can stream audiobooks from your cellular-enabled iPhone or iPad,* or play audiobooks that are downloaded to your iPhone.

Learn more about audiobooks.

*Data rates may apply.

News

Listen to Apple News Today, a daily audio briefing of the top stories. If you subscribe to Apple News+, you can also enjoy narrated versions of select Apple News+ stories.

Learn more about listening to Apple News.

Apple News and certain features of Apple News aren't available in all countries and regions.

Use Siri

You can ask Siri to stop, start, or change the audio that you listen to while driving.

  • To activate Siri while connected with CarPlay or Siri Eyes Free, press and hold the Voice Control button on your steering wheel until you hear Siri.
  • If your car has a touch screen, you can also touch and hold the Home button in CarPlay.
  • If your car doesn't support CarPlay or Siri Eyes Free and your iPhone is in a mount, just say "Hey Siri."

Learn how to use Siri to play music or podcasts.

Customize your settings for driving

Use your iPhone to add, remove, or rearrange the apps that you see in CarPlay. On your iPhone, go to Settings > General > CarPlay, choose your car, then drag the apps to the location you want.

If you're not using CarPlay, you can activate Do Not Disturb while driving to filter out most notifications, but you can still use Siri to control your music, podcasts, and audiobooks.

If you don't want certain apps to use cellular data while you drive, you can turn off the app's access to cellular data in Settings > Cellular.

When you download content on Wi-Fi, you don't use cellular data when you play it. To download, tapthe download icon next to a song, album, podcast episode, or audiobook. Learn how to redownload previous purchases.

Learn more

If you signed in to Apple Music on your car's display panel, you can sign out there. Or you can open the Music app on another device, go to For You, tap your profile picture at the top, then scroll down to your devices and remove your car to sign out.

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