justlookingaround
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Do any owners out there know how well Sync 4a voice commands work with CarPlay on? We currently have a long-term loaner (long story) with Sync 3, and with CarPlay on, Siri preempts the voice command button on the steering wheel. That's fine on a car with physical climate control buttons, and very limited climate voice commands (basically overall temperature adjustments only).
My wife and I had an hour-long test drive with the Mach-E, and the lack of physical climate buttons had us leaning towards no, especially because the floor and front panel vent buttons are buried in the pop out card right of the volume knob. The windshield vents and heated seats get their own top-level button at the bottom of the screen, and that's not ideal but doable.
Then I read about Sync voice commands, and the other thread with the list of climate voice commands include windshield, panel, and floor vents. So if we could tell the car to turn on floor vents, with CarPlay on doing nav and podcast duty, that may work.
I am kind of hesitant to book a second test drive just to see if voice control works to turn the front panel and floor vents on and off, but if anyone here knows that it works, then that's even better. I vaguely remember reading something about "Hey Siri, tell Sync to set climate temperature to 65" but of course I don't have a Mach-E at home to test.
My wife and I had an hour-long test drive with the Mach-E, and the lack of physical climate buttons had us leaning towards no, especially because the floor and front panel vent buttons are buried in the pop out card right of the volume knob. The windshield vents and heated seats get their own top-level button at the bottom of the screen, and that's not ideal but doable.
Then I read about Sync voice commands, and the other thread with the list of climate voice commands include windshield, panel, and floor vents. So if we could tell the car to turn on floor vents, with CarPlay on doing nav and podcast duty, that may work.
I am kind of hesitant to book a second test drive just to see if voice control works to turn the front panel and floor vents on and off, but if anyone here knows that it works, then that's even better. I vaguely remember reading something about "Hey Siri, tell Sync to set climate temperature to 65" but of course I don't have a Mach-E at home to test.
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