If you have an Apple CarPlay receiver, you know the joys of accessing your favorite iPhone apps while driving. While basic features like making phone calls, getting directions, and streaming music are helpful, CarPlay offers several other ways to enhance your driving experience. Here are some secret hacks for getting the most out of your Apple CarPlay receiver.
CarPlay allows you to split your screen between two to three apps at a time. You can have driving directions in one window, control music in another and view your upcoming meetings from your calendar at the same time. Just tap the widget icon in the bottom left corner to open split-screen mode while your phone is connected.
If you have lots of appointments scheduled for the day, you can easily keep up with your calendar via Apple CarPlay. The OS provides a multiview option to show any upcoming meetings directly from your calendar. You can tap on an entry to view more information, and even start a call for your meeting if a phone number is attached to the event.
The default color scheme of CarPlay is dark mode but can easily be switched to light mode. You can either change the settings to adjust the background color automatically between day and nighttime driving or change it manually.
If you hear a certain song you like and want to keep playing similar music, Apple Music will allow you to do just that. From the Now Playing app, tap the three-dot menu to create your own radio station. The Now Playing app will also show you full details on whatever audio is currently playing. If you have another audio app open, click the audio graph icon in the upper-right corner to access Now Playing, or open it from the home screen.
My Roku will, every few days to a week or so, become very distorted in audio. It almost sounds like people are under water. Even the sounds of navigating the menu have this issue. The only thing that temporarily corrects this is rebooting the Roku and has worked 100% of the time.
Yes, it goes away when there is no volume, but unfortunately, my lipreading skills are not all that good. Guess I could read subtitles, but I'd really like sound, especially when watching music programs.
Recommending someone turn off the volume to fix a sound issue sounds more like you are the malcontent. I am an electronics technician specialist for over 35 years. This is a Roku problem, not a me problem.
"menu volume set to off" sounds like a setting to turn off the menu audio. If it is not, then it is a stupid description of the setting. As the audio issue is not restricted to the menu, as I stated, this would not fix the issue.
This has been an issue for me 1-2 times per week since buying my Roku less than a month ago. It only happens right out of the gate when turning on the TV and never all of the sudden during watching. I have the menu volume set to Low. This shouldn't have anything to do with it, but I'll try turning it off and am willing to have no menu "beeps" if it keeps me from having to unplug the Roku and plug it back in every time this occurs. That's been the only thing that fixes it.
The only fix for this has been unplugging and rebooting three unit. This started bout 2 months ago on my ultra unit that is a year old. Like others have stated, it starts when first turning on the tv. Never while you're in a movie or show. Wish I had a fix for this other than unplugging it.
Send audio from Apple TV to a speaker in another room: Navigate down, then select a device or devices. The currently playing song appears at the top of the screen under a description of the rooms you selected (for example, Living Room + Dining Room).
Send audio from a speaker in another room to Apple TV: Navigate up to highlight the currently playing song, navigate right to highlight another room, then navigate down and select the Apple TV. The song that was playing in the other room appears grouped with Apple TV.
Additionally, if you have an Apple TV 4K (2nd generation or later), you can play audio on your HomePod speakers from devices such as DVD players or game consoles that are connected to an eARC-supported TV with an HDMI cable. See Set up Apple TV.
For the best surround sound, place HomePod within 10 inches of a wall and as close to the center of your TV as possible. For optimal surround sound, the HomePod speakers should be about 4 feet apart from each other.
Apple TV 4K also supports Personalized Spatial Audio, which uses a customized scan of your ear geometry for even better sound. To experience this feature, you need to set up a Spatial Audio profile on iPhone using the same Apple ID as the primary user on your Apple TV 4K. Additional profiles are not supported. For more information, see the AirPods User Guide.
AirPods Pro and AirPods Max also offer controls for noise cancellation (to tune outside noises out), and transparency (to hear sounds around you). AirPods Pro (2nd generation) offers controls for Adaptive Audio, which automatically adapts to reduce loud sounds or enhance conversations while reducing background noise.
Turn on Adaptive Audio for AirPods Pro (2nd generation only): Select Adaptive Audio, then turn on Loud Sound Reduction to automatically reduce loud sounds around you, or turn on Conversation Awareness to automatically lower the volume during a conversation and enhance voices in front of you, all while reducing background noise.
If your Apple TV is connected to a home theater receiver or TV using an HDMI cable, you may experience audio latency, a delay that sounds like an echo when playing audio on both receiver speakers and a wireless speaker.
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