How to make your iPhone answer messages for you while you drive.
One of the most recurring reasons for traffic accidents is the use of the telephone while driving. And it is that using the mobile while driving is a great distraction, which instantly puts you and the rest of the passengers at risk. That is why Apple has improved, with iOS 16, the Driving Focusa tool that tells your iPhone when you’re driving.
What does Driving Focus do and what is it for? Mainly, it helps you to automatically reply to any message with a preset reply. But how do you do this? with a simple setting that will help your iPhone automatically reply to a message when you’re driving. Similarly, here are 4 cool Apple CarPlay hacks that will enhance your experience with your iPhone while behind the wheel.
How to activate Driving Focus so that your iPhone automatically answers a message?
The first thing we want to reiterate is that driving while driving is dangerous and threatens your life and that of the rest of the passengers. Here is the importance of activating Driving Focus so that the iPhone automatically answers messages.
How is this accomplished? In principle, it is using the Sharpen tool, which was another of the sections that iOS 16 improved. Therefore, in order for your iPhone to automatically reply to messages while driving, you need to:
- Walk into Setting.
- click on Approach.
- Click on the button +.
- press on At the wheel.
Select the most important contacts you want to reply to while driving.
Now, you will have to configure various aspects to your liking. For example, you can customize your iPhone so that it only receives messages from certain contacts. They can be the most important: relatives, co-workers, etc. To do that you have to:
- click on customize focus.
- press on People.
- Select the contacts what you wish.
- click on Clever.
This way you will have added the contacts that can only and exclusively be read by your iPhone while you drive. Keep in mind that the main idea of this function is that you can reply to the messages of those people who are valuable to you. It is useless to configure your iPhone in this way so that it responds the same to all the people who write to you during the time you are driving.
Customize the automatic response and activate or not the CarPlay.
In addition, you can also customize the reply message that your iPhone will send to the contacts that write to you. To do it, you have to:
- click on Setting.
- press on Approach.
- click on At the wheel.
- click on auto reply.
Once here you can select who you want your iPhone to reply to: nobody, recent, favorites or contacts. We recommend that you leave the option in favourites, since the personalized message will be sent solely and exclusively to the contacts that you previously selected.
Furthermore, if click on automatic message, you can compose the personalized message that you want your iPhone to send to those important contacts who previously sent you a message. This is in case you don’t like the default message that your iPhone already has: “I go behind the wheel and activated a focus. I read your message when I arrive at my destination“.
Remember that you can also configure your iPhone to answer calls. This you do connecting your iPhone via Bluetooth to CarPlay. This option is also essential because it allows you to answer an emergency call without using your mobile. If you don’t know how to use it, here we explain how to use CarPlay.
- click on Setting.
- press on Approach.
- click on At the wheel.
- click on when driving.
- press on Activate with CarPlay.
In this way, your iPhone will be able to answer the calls that come to you and you will be able to speak on the call through your car’s Bluetooth. Remember that the contacts you selected earlier will also be the exclusive contacts that your iPhone will let you know that they are making a call to you.