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ANDROID & iOS

Customise Android Auto and Apple CarPlay

More and more new cars now come with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto built in. These big-screen interfaces for your phone let you control it more safely when driving as they give you big, chunky controls to jab at instead of the smartphone’s fiddly buttons. They also let you manage these controls via buttons on your steering wheel, and can read out incoming text messages, which you can respond to using your voice.

At first glance, though, you

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