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3.2.4.1. Connecting your iPhone to Apple CarPlay

Connect your iPhone to the car via Bluetooth to start using Apple CarPlay.

Bluetooth must be enabled for both the car and your phone for them to be able to pair. You can turn Bluetooth on in settings.

Make sure that your phone is set as discoverable so that the car can find it when pairing.

To be able to use CarPlay, you need to activate Siri on your iPhone and have an active internet connection. You also need to turn

the car's Wi-Fi off as CarPlay can't be active while Wi-Fi is enabled.

Press the car symbol

in the bottom bar and go to Settings.

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Go to Connectivity → Bluetooth → Add new device.

Press Add to search for your iPhone.

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Select your iPhone from the list of discovered devices.

Check that the confirmation code in the display matches the one shown on your phone.

On your iPhone, consent to using CarPlay.

In the car's display, read and accept CarPlay's terms and conditions.

Your iPhone connects to CarPlay and the CarPlay view opens in the car's display. A CarPlay symbol

the status bar to indicate that CarPlay is active.

also appears in

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CarPlay automatically starts the next time you connect your iPhone via Bluetooth.

Tip

You can disconnect from CarPlay but keep your iPhone connected to the car by pressing the CarPlay symbol

your device's name in the car's Bluetooth settings.

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3.3. Sound and media

Listen to music and media through the car's sound system. You can adjust how it sounds in settings.

Sound settings

The sound settings allow you to change and adjust a variety of sound options.

Radio and media players

You can listen to live radio via the pre-installed radio app and stream media from your phone to the car via the Bluetooth media

player.

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Tip

You can find and download more third-party media apps via the car's app store.

Controlling media playback

You can control media playback in a number of ways by using:

media playback controls in the display

the steering wheel buttons

voice control.

3.3.1. Radio

Use the pre-installed radio app to listen to live radio in your car.

Link DAB and FM radio stations

DAB and FM linking allows the car to automatically select the strongest reception between the DAB or FM sources of linked

stations. Your car comes with this already enabled but you can turn it off in the radio app settings.

Radio announcements

When listening to the radio, you might hear some announcements which interrupt what you're listening to. The announce-

ments can be alarms, warnings, news or about the traffic, and are accompanied by a notification in the display. You can stop the

announcement and continue listening to the radio by dismissing the notification.

You can choose which radio announcements you want to hear in radio settings. Press the settings symbol

at the top of the

radio app, then turn the announcements on or off. By default, alarm announcements are turned on but warnings, news and

traffic announcements are turned off.

Radio favourites

You can add stations to your radio favourites list for quicker access.

Tip

You can find and download other radio apps via the app store.

3.3.1.1. Adding radio favourites

You can add radio stations to the favourites list in the radio app.

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Add the radio stations you listen to frequently to the favourites list for quicker access. You can add up to 50 radio stations to

the list.

Press the app library symbol

in the bottom bar and open the radio app.

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Find the station you want to add as a favourite from the list of currently available radio stations.

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Press the star symbol

to the right of the station name.

The appearance of the station's star symbol changes and the radio station appears in the favourites list.

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If you want to remove a station from the favourites list, just press the star next to its name.

3.3.1.2. Linking DAB and FM stations

Turn DAB and FM linking on or off in the radio app settings.

When an FM station has a corresponding DAB station, and vice versa, they can often be linked in the radio app. Linking the two

radio sources allows the car to automatically switch between the DAB and FM stations to play the source with the strongest

reception.

Press the app library symbol

Press the settings symbol

in the bottom bar and open the radio app.

to go to radio settings.

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Turn DAB and FM linking on or off.

When turned on, the radio app shows one radio station tab. All linked stations in the list have the link symbol

neath their names.

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When turned off, the radio app shows separate DAB and FM station tabs. There is no link symbol underneath the station

names.

Note

It might not be possible to link some corresponding DAB and FM stations, so these will appear as separate

stations.

3.3.2. Sound settings

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You can change and adjust a variety of sound options in settings.

The sound settings view has two tabs: audio and volume.

Audio tab

You can choose from three sound focus settings: all, driver and rear. All is the default setting and doesn't focus the sound in a particular direction. It

provides a neutral sound focus where occupants in the front and rear seats have the same sound experience. The driver setting focuses the sound

towards the driver whereas the rear setting focuses sound towards the rear seats.

Sound focus

QuantumLogic surround gives you a surround sound experience. You can choose QuantumLogic surround to be low, medium or high, or simply turn it

off.

QuantumLogic

surround

Equaliser

Access the equaliser settings in the audio tab by pressing Equaliser. You can change the tone of the in-car sound using the six adjustment levels as well

as adjust the subwoofer. There are also four EQ presets available to choose from: Dynamic, Soft, Voice and Custom. When Custom is selected, you can

reset the equaliser values back to 0 by pressing Reset custom.

Volume tab

In this tab, you can adjust the volume for the following:

Media

Ringtone

Call

Voice assistant

Navigation

Notifications

Parking assistance

The noise compensation setting automatically adjusts the sound volume inside the car according to the level of noise outside

the car. You can select low, medium and high compensation levels or turn the feature on or off.

You can also turn display touch sounds on or off in this tab.

3.3.3. Media players

Your car comes with a pre-installed media player. You can download more third-party media apps from

Google Play in the app library.

Your car comes with the Bluetooth media player pre-installed in the app library.

Use the Bluetooth media app to stream media from a Bluetooth-connected device straight to the car.

3.4. In-car apps

All of the car's apps can be found in the app library.

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