How to Set Up iPhone Apple CarPlay on an Android Head Unit (Wireless, Step by Step)

0:00What's up everyone it's your boy John

0:02Today we're gonna be taking a look at something special a lot of you guys have been asking about iPhones

0:30Now the first thing is not all head units have Apple CarPlay Android Auto, so

0:35make sure in the description of wherever you buy it, it's gonna have it.

0:39Now the one I'm showing right here, I'll put a link down below showing where you

0:42can get it if you're interested.

0:44So boom, first starting it up, this is the side of the interface.

1:00When you go to Bluetooth, you want and pair your phone.

1:03So, let's just hit search right here.

1:07It's going to be searching and on your phone you want to go to here.

1:12Go to Bluetooth. All right,

1:19finds it so it pairs through Bluetooth so on my head unit, I just called it

1:25it NSX because that's the car and you can see right here is loading right up try to

1:30get to make sure that this is in focus for y'all but yeah so this is the iPhone

1:35all wireless all through Bluetooth no no Wi-Fi or anything. So what it happens

1:40is your phone your head unit through Wi-Fi so it gets a really strong

1:46signal and that's how it's wireless and it can display all this information which

1:51is beautiful so now if I get a text message or anything I can see it right

1:54here I can see who texts me I use Spotify but Pandora and whatever you

2:02like to use a also there you have your maps, so this is the maps it's actually

2:11really really fast and really responsive too so maps is generally the

2:15most intensive things and you can to see I

2:17I'm in my garage right now and it's still picking up signal

2:21it's still no issues here it's just responsive

2:25oh my man that very responsive

2:30and make sure this thing's in focus for y'all.

2:34There you go

2:35focus. You can see it very, very nice, very responsive and just works well. So let's go

2:43to the home screen. The home screen is going to have your maps and like a widget of your

2:47media player, food, drinks and shopping. So right now I have this song playing. You can

2:54have it playing great. You can skip to and this will also work with your steering wheel

3:02controls too if your car has it or if you have any buttons right here you hit

3:07next it will it will all work it's very integrated which is nice now we

3:11now we can look at the app drawer we got phone music maps message car and it

3:16detects my cars in Acura which is awesome which is correct and now playing

3:23podcast audiobooks calendar settings Spotify and also have teams so whatever

3:29application is on your phone, it will show up here on your thing.

3:36So let's say if I had Pandora installed or other applications, it will be displayed here.

3:43It's very nice, very easy to do and if you ever want to go back to your original user

3:49interface, you can just wipe down from the top and then you're back here.

3:52Now the application that I'm using that has all this Android Auto Apple Car application is on

3:57is on your phone.

3:58So this is what makes the magic happen.

4:00You click on Z-Link and it's just kind of.

4:03Kind of load your iPhone and play music.

4:07So that's great.

4:08Now there's two ways to connect your phone.

4:12What I showed you guys was called wireless, which is my go-to.

4:28and then get into the car and start the car again and right now it goes to the

4:38last thing I had open which was the Bluetooth. It sees that my iPhone's

4:43connecting automatically connects it does have this this hey make sure Bluetooth

4:49is on but you can close it because Bluetooth is on but look at that you

4:53walk into your car and you have Apple CarPlay just like that it's so

4:58So beautiful and well integrated.

5:00and I mean this is kind of sad to say but using an iPhone is better than using an

5:09Android phone on your head unit. Which is weird because this is an Android head,

5:14head unit you would think Android, head units and Android phones would talk to each

5:18other better. It's not the case whoever developed these applications the

5:22software for the head unit. They tailored it more to an iPhone or it's

5:28just more refined or whatever iPhone has it just good.

5:31So if you have an iPhone, you're gonna love the Android head

5:35units because it's, I mean

5:37look at that, it just works so well.

5:40I'm just gonna go through the UI.

5:45So usually when you connect your front to Bluetooth,

5:48you only have like these kind of things.

5:50But if you have a Apple CarPlay,

5:53you can go through your playlist.

5:55um you can see you know this is what i've been listening to jack harlow and just you can hit like

6:02you and repeat shuffle into a new radio it's

6:06so you?

6:10and all you have is next skip and maybe the title of the song but but rarely would you get like album

6:16mart and have all this cool ui stuff you can do and using gps on your phone doesn't really

6:25It's just less clutter, you don't have to have a car phone mount, you just walk into

6:29your car, phone in pocket and all this stuff will display.

6:34It's actually amazing and I think you're gonna love it if you guys have a car that doesn't

6:39have Apple CarPlay, it's my favorite modification you can do on a car.

6:45The infotainment is so-so important and to have that kind of modern touch to it,

6:50it's just exquisite.

6:53I have like a, so I had, I went to like a 2018 car speach car.

6:58I'm like, okay, it doesn't even have Apple car plays.

7:01So lame.

7:02And then I stepped into like the older version of the car in 2008 and we put the head unit and I

7:09would rather be in a 2008 car than a 2018 car, like 10-year difference just because the infotainment

7:15sense is such a big deal.

7:17I mean we already know that electronics advance and the advancement from 2008 to 2018 should

7:25be big but for some reason even Honda and even

7:30Toyota sometimes

7:32they don't put Android Auto or Apple CarPlay in their 2022 models

7:35because of budget savings or whatever, but yeah

7:38the aftermarket scene has you, you can get these units for

7:41anywhere from, you know, just make sure they have

7:45Android Auto and Apple CarPlay compatible, but you can get them from like 200 to like

7:49300 bucks, which in the grand schemes of everything

7:53is not that much. The higher end models could run you probably like

7:57500 for the best of the best, the best displays, Q, QLED, IPS, better processor and stuff like that,

8:05but if you're just kind of use Apple CarPlay and have a decent EQ, you can go for the

8:11budget, but the more expensive you go, the pioneers of 1200 bucks, you do get better sound, so just

8:19keep that in mind. I'm going to be linking this head unit and some of my recommended head

8:23units down below if you guys were interested and it'll mean a lot to me if you

8:53I'll talk to you later.