I am having an issue with the code that I posted below. I capture voice in my CarPlay app, then allow the user to have it read back to them using AVSpeechUtterance. This works fine on some cars, but many of my beta testers report no audio being played. I have also experienced this in a rental car where the audio was either too quiet or the audio didn't play. Does anyone see any issue with the code that I posted? This is for CarPlay specifically. class CarPlayTextToSpeechService: NSObject, ObservableObject, AVSpeechSynthesizerDelegate { private var speechSynthesizer = AVSpeechSynthesizer() static let shared = CarPlayTextToSpeechService() /// Completion callback private var completionCallback: (() -> Void)? override init() { super.init() speechSynthesizer.delegate = self } func configureAudioSession() { do { try AVAudioSession.sharedInstance().setCategory(.playback, mode: .voicePrompt, options: [.duckOthers, .interruptSpokenAudioAndMixWithOthers, .allowBluetoothHFP]) } catch { print("Failed to set audio session category: \(error.localizedDescription)") } } public func speak(_ text: String, completion: (() -> Void)? = nil) { self.configureAudioSession() // Store the completion callback self.completionCallback = completion Task(priority: .high) { let speechUtterance = AVSpeechUtterance(string: text) let langCode = Locale.preferredLocalLanguageCountryCode if langCode == "en-US" { speechUtterance.voice = AVSpeechSynthesisVoice(identifier: AVSpeechSynthesisVoiceIdentifierAlex) } else { speechUtterance.voice = AVSpeechSynthesisVoice(language: langCode) } try AVAudioSession.sharedInstance().setActive(true, options: .notifyOthersOnDeactivation) speechSynthesizer.speak(speechUtterance) } } func speechSynthesizer(_ synthesizer: AVSpeechSynthesizer, didFinish utterance: AVSpeechUtterance) { Task { stopSpeech() try AVAudioSession.sharedInstance().setActive(false) } // Call completion callback if available self.completionCallback?() self.completionCallback = nil } func stopSpeech() { speechSynthesizer.stopSpeaking(at: .immediate) } }

I have a UINavigation controller which on the second viewController has a Google Map view. In iOS 18 you would navigate normally around the map, and swipe your finger from the left side of the screen to move the map, this worked correctly. However, in iOS 26 swiping from left to right from anywhere but the far right side of the screen will cause the UI to try to pop the viewController. This does not happen when I add Apple Maps or other map frameworks to the VC. Is there a way to disable the "swipe from middle" in iOS 26?

I am using CPNavigationAlert and am getting a specific name for the title, so I do not have more than one variant. Sometimes, the variant title is longer, which for some reason makes the image very small. I have tried to make sure to keep displayScale in mind: let maximumImageSize = CPListItem.maximumImageSize let displayScale = self.interfaceController?.carTraitCollection.displayScale ?? 2 let imageSize = CGSizeMake(maximumImageSize.width * displayScale, maximumImageSize.width * displayScale) let image = CarPlayMapUtility().getIconAlertImage(item: item, frame: imageSize) If the titleVariants is shorter, the image is displayed corrected. If it is longer, the image might be extremely small or not shown at all. Is this expected?

In my navigation CarPlay app I am needing to capture voice input and process that into text. Is there a built in way to do this in CarPlay? I did not find one, so I used the following, but I am running into issues where the AVAudioSession will throw an error when I am trying to set active to false after I have captured the audio. public func startRecording(completionHandler: @escaping (_ completion: String?) -> ()) throws { // Cancel the previous task if it's running. if let recognitionTask = self.recognitionTask { recognitionTask.cancel() self.recognitionTask = nil } // Configure the audio session for the app. let audioSession = AVAudioSession.sharedInstance() try audioSession.setCategory(.record, mode: .default, options: [.duckOthers, .interruptSpokenAudioAndMixWithOthers]) try audioSession.setActive(true, options: .notifyOthersOnDeactivation) let inputNode = self.audioEngine.inputNode // Create and configure the speech recognition request. self.recognitionRequest = SFSpeechAudioBufferRecognitionRequest() guard let recognitionRequest = self.recognitionRequest else { fatalError("Unable to created a SFSpeechAudioBufferRecognitionRequest object") } recognitionRequest.shouldReportPartialResults = true // Keep speech recognition data on device recognitionRequest.requiresOnDeviceRecognition = true // Create a recognition task for the speech recognition session. // Keep a reference to the task so that it can be canceled. self.recognitionTask = self.speechRecognizer.recognitionTask(with: recognitionRequest) { result, error in var isFinal = false if let result = result { // Update the text view with the results. let textResult = result.bestTranscription.formattedString isFinal = result.isFinal let confidence = result.bestTranscription.segments[0].confidence if confidence > 0.0 { isFinal = true completionHandler(textResult) } } if error != nil || isFinal { // Stop recognizing speech if there is a problem. self.audioEngine.stop() do { try audioSession.setActive(false, options: .notifyOthersOnDeactivation) } catch { print(error) } inputNode.removeTap(onBus: 0) self.recognitionRequest = nil self.recognitionTask = nil if error != nil { completionHandler(nil) } } } // Configure the microphone input. let recordingFormat = inputNode.outputFormat(forBus: 0) inputNode.installTap(onBus: 0, bufferSize: 1024, format: recordingFormat) { (buffer: AVAudioPCMBuffer, when: AVAudioTime) in self.recognitionRequest?.append(buffer) } self.audioEngine.prepare() try self.audioEngine.start() } Again, is there a build-in method to capture audio in CarPlay? If not, why would the AVAudioSession throw this error? Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=560030580 "Session deactivation failed" UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=Session deactivation failed}

With CarPlay, is it possible to programmatically know which side of the screen the status bar is placed on?

When my CPMapButton is selected/focused, I would like to be able to provide a focusedImage to correctly show the button when the blue focus is shown. Currently I have: What do I need to do to create an image that works more like the panning interface buttons?

In my CarPlay app, I am hiding the navigation bar by using the following: self.mapTemplate?.automaticallyHidesNavigationBar = true self.mapTemplate?.hidesButtonsWithNavigationBar = false I don't want the navigation bar to show unless a user interacts with the map by tapping it. Strangely, when I present a CPNavigationAlert the navigation bar will often appear and then disappear after the alert is dismissed. Is there a setting or reason that the navigation bar would be appearing when presenting this alert? I would like to keep the nav bar hidden during this time.

I am building a CarPlay navigation app and I would like it to be as hands free as possible. I need a better understanding of how Siri can work with CarPlay and if the direction I need to go is using Intents or App Shortcuts. My goal is to be able to have the user speak to Siri and do things like "open settings" or "zoom in map" and then call a func in my app to do what the user is asking. Does CarPlay support this? Do I need to use App Intents or App Shortcuts or something else?

I am new to the idea of Siri Shortcuts and App Intents. What I want to do is use Siri to run a function in my app. Such as saying to Siri Zoom in map and that will then call a function in my app where I can zoom in the map. Similarly, I could say Zoom out map and it would call a function to zoom out my map. I do not need to share any sort of shortcut with the Shortcuts app. Can someone please point me in the right direction for what type of intents I need to use for this?

I am wondering how I change the measurement units on screen in my CPMapTemplate. In my screenshot below the distance is in miles, but how can I change that to kilometers? Does this need to come from my route data? I am not seeing this anywhere in the CarPlay programming guide or in the documentation.

My app uses UIDocumentPickerViewController to display image files that are saved on iCloud Drive. In previous versions of iOS the user could long press on an image file and an option to Delete was shown. This no longer seems to be the case in iOS 18. Is there a way to allow users to delete files when using a UIDocumentPickerViewController?

Since iOS 18, I have gotten user reports that the UIDocumentPickerViewController directoryURL is no longer opening the correct folder. Instead it is just loading the root directory of the Files app/iCloud files. Did something change in iOS 18 that I need to account for? Not all users are having this issue, but some are and they are frustrated because a major feature of my app was to allow users to save files at the ubiquityURL. I use the following to get the path: NSURL *rootDirectory = [[[NSFileManager defaultManager] URLForUbiquityContainerIdentifier:nil] URLByAppendingPathComponent:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"Documents/Photos/%@", folderName]]; Is there something that I need to do differently now in iOS 18 to prevent this from happening?

I am trying to use CPVoiceControlState and include an animated image, but for the life of me I cannot figure out what sort of image it wants. I have tried animated .gif, .png, a static image, an image sequence and none seem to animate. Here is what I am using with an animated .png: func showLoadingTemplate() { enum VoiceControlStates: String { case loading = "loading" } let spinner = UIImage(named: "spinner") loadingTemplate = CPVoiceControlTemplate(voiceControlStates: [ CPVoiceControlState(identifier: VoiceControlStates.loading.rawValue, titleVariants: [NSLocalizedString("Loading...", comment: "CarPlay: Loading")], image: spinner, repeats: true) ]) loadingTemplate?.activateVoiceControlState(withIdentifier: VoiceControlStates.loading.rawValue) if let loading = loadingTemplate { currentInterfaceController?.presentTemplate(loading, animated: true, completion: { (result: Bool, error: Error?) in }) } } This shows the image but it isn't animating. Can anyone let me know what sort of image needs to be used in order to get it to animate? I have seen animated images working in Waze and Google Maps so if must be possible.

I have a CarPlay navigation app and I would like to allow the user to speak an address and have our app search at that location. In the Waze app, it provides a button to tap, then it brings up a CPVoiceControlTemplate and you can give it directions or a location and it will then show you search results including the text you spoke as the title. I assume that app would have the same limitations as I do, so I am wondering how another app might do this? It was suggested that I use an App Intent with suggested phrases and then a Shortcut could perform the action. Is there documentation on this somewhere or am I going in the wrong direction here? Obviously Waze is doing what I am wanting so there must be a way. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

With the announcement of the new Apple Translate app and offline support, are there any URL schemes that we can use in our apps to send text to the Translate app and have it open and translate the sent text?