You can’t initiate a text through Siri when the phone is locked. So you have to pick up your phone and look at it to unlock it. It’s not really hands free. If it wasn’t for that, this would be perfectly usable to me.
Actually, you can summon Siri when the phone is locked and send a text, without picking up the phone. Go to Settings>Siri>Allow Siri When Locked. In fact, you can even send an audio message. Just ask Siri to send an audio message.
I checked and had that switched on, but I swear it would never let me do it. I’ll try again this week. If that worked, I don’t care about built in texting for the vehicle. I don’t need to see it. Just the ability to do it by voice.
Also check the “hey, Siri” option. I am able to do this as well
Thanks. I hope I’m just missing something. I’ve tried this for years including in my former Tesla before voice texting was added to the car. Maybe I’m remembering wrong and the issue is if you ask it to read your messages? There was only one thing that didn’t work, but it was important. I’d ask to read the messages and then reply. The initial read (I think) wouldn’t work when locked. And I checked already that I have the setting on to use when unlocked. But I’ll double check that this week.
You’re correct about the read messages. It will ask to unlock for that. As for composing, you can “hey siri” that
There is a chance they won’t. Every update fixes some bugs, but occasionally introduces new ones. And there was that time that they had the wrong cert and bricked the infotainment. Rivian’s talent pool isn’t good enough for me to be completely comfortable with any update. Simpler is better, in my opinion.
You do you, boo.
As soon as I saw the post from @Wayne this song popped into my mind. Thanks, you made me happy seeing this as the very next post!
and may be even with some body damage
