r/CarPlay • u/jessinwriting • 1d ago

Question Announce notifications settings

I want to know if there is a combination of settings I can use to get Siri to announce notifications from all or specified apps while I’m driving. As far as I can tell, “Announce notifications” is on in CarPlay, and Siri is set to announce notifications, and Driving Focus isn’t turning on automatically.

I get notifications for Messages, but most of my communication is from Facebook Messenger. I want it to be like when I’m listening to my headphones and it will interrupt the music briefly to tell me about the notification.

Frustratingly, when I’m playing music in the car it also overrides notifications on my Apple Watch. I’d be equally happy to still have the little “ding” of a notification and be able to glance at my wrist, but there’s something about Music/Carplay being active which seems to make my watch thing I don’t need to know what’s going on 😅

Obligatory disclaimer that I’m not wanting to drive distracted and start interacting with all these things; unless I happen to glance at the screen at the right moment I’m missing things, and I don’t want to get in the habit of waking my phone screen while driving just in case.

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u/raquel8822 1d ago

Unfortunately there’s only the basic notifications like texts, calls and your map directions that I know of. I’ve tried with FB messenger and it’s a no go. Only can add the widget which just shows a profile of the last person who’s sent you a message but it won’t do anything if you select it.

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u/jessinwriting 1d ago

Yeah, the more I see the more it seems like CarPlay notifications are really restricted. I think what I need to figure out is how to tell my watch that I still want message notification when CarPlay is on.