When driving, many of us listen to the iPhone vibrate and sideways on the screen, to see what we have received. A very dangerous practice even though we do not take the phone with our hands, because we will be aware of reading what it says, and not the road.
Well, Apple has different options that allow us Read these messages out loud thus avoiding having to look at the phone, and we will only listen to the message as if it were a companion who is talking to us, without having to look away from the really important.
How to make Siri read notifications
We will have different ways to do it, since our car may have Carplay, which helps a lot, or simply Bluetooth, with which we can also do this.
Option 1: Use Carplay (if your car is compatible)
- Connect your iPhone to Carplay: If your car is compatible with Apple Carplay, simply connect your iPhone to the car using a cable or wirelessly if it is compatible.
- Activate “announce notifications”:
- Go to Configuration On your iPhone.
- Show and select Siri and search.
- Touches in Announce notifications.
- Activate the option Announce notifications.
- Make sure the option Carplay It is activated.
- Customize what notifications you want them to read out loud:
- You can select specific applications from which you want Siri to announce notifications.
Option 2: Use Siri without CarPlay
If you don’t have CarPlay, you can also use Siri to read notifications aloud, even by your car speakers if you are connected to it by Bluetooth.
- Activate “announce notifications”:
- Go to Configuration On your iPhone.
- Show and select Siri and search.
- Touches in Announce notifications.
- Activate the option Announce notifications.
Option 3: Use the “Do not bother to drive” function
This option is ideal for not receiving anything, and, therefore, not distracting us, but adding some exceptions if we want certain people in particular to communicate with us.
- Configure “Do not bother when driving”:
- Go to Configuration.
- Touches Concentration And then select Drive.
- Configure to automatically activate when connecting to your car via Bluetooth or by detecting what you are driving.
- Be sure to customize automatic answers and exceptions not to bother you while driving.
- Allow important notifications:
- If you need some notifications to be announced, you can configure certain people or applications so that they can pass through the “not to bother” mode.
In any of these forms, we can conduct more quietly, either avoiding absurd notifications that can distract us, such as listening to others that we create important Through the car speakerswhich will stop music or radio (if we have connected), to give us the information.
And you, did you know this? It can also be done with headphones, while doing sports, for example, and that your airpods tell you everything without having to take out the iPhone out of the pocket. The truth is very comfortable. Leave us a comment on how you have it configured, and what do you think of this system. Would you improve or change something?
