CarPlay Shortcut on MG4 Trophy LR

slmorgan42 · Feb 24, 2025

If I’ve understood the manual correctly, there’s no direct shortcut button for CarPlay. But is there a way to assign one, maybe through the customisable buttons or another method?

webhiker · Feb 24, 2025

No physical button

siteguru · Feb 24, 2025

But there's a soft button on the Infotainment screen that you can press?

Also, if you press the Phone button on the steering wheel whilst CarPlay is connected then the CP screen should open at the dialler app. (That's what happens with AA in my car anyway).

slmorgan42 · Feb 24, 2025

siteguru said:
But there's a soft button on the Infotainment screen that you can press?

Also, if you press the Phone button on the steering wheel whilst CarPlay is connected then the CP screen should open at the dialler app. (That's what happens with AA in my car anyway).

It looks to be different for Trophy vs SE. I think partly as the built in nav in the trophy has been assign buttons.

siteguru · Feb 24, 2025

I can't comment categorically re. the Trophy ... my SE actually has 2 soft buttons - one each for AA and CP. I know in other makes of car the AA/CP control is a universal one for mirroring, and it launches whichever option is connected. Is there no similar control on the Trophy?

Martinonline · Feb 24, 2025

On the Trophy home screen there are soft buttons for AA and CP on the left side underneath the weather tile. In my case when connected the AA tile darkens to show it is available to be pressed. (It automatically displays maps when first connected.)

slmorgan42 · Feb 24, 2025

siteguru said:
I can't comment categorically re. the Trophy ... my SE actually has 2 soft buttons - one each for AA and CP. I know in other makes of car the AA/CP control is a universal one for mirroring, and it launches whichever option is connected. Is there no similar control on the Trophy?

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Thanks

There is two soft buttons but AA/carplay is not an option for them. I have seem this in my friends SE and my old MG5. Not sure why the option was removed from the trophy but they seemed to have focused on the built in Nav system instead. :-(

slmorgan42 · Feb 24, 2025

Martinonline said:
On the Trophy home screen there are soft buttons for AA and CP on the left side underneath the weather tile. In my case when connected the AA tile darkens to show it is available to be pressed. (It automatically displays maps when first connected.)

Thanks it’s more when driving and I switch to change AC for example and want to go back. It used be nice on the MG5 having a single click button the steering wheel to return to CarPlay.

fnegroni · Feb 24, 2025

slmorgan42 said:
Thanks it’s more when driving and I switch to change AC for example and want to go back. It used be nice on the MG5 having a single click button the steering wheel to return to CarPlay.

You can long press the ‘voice command’ button on the steering wheel that should activate Siri and just say ‘open maps’ or whatever app you wish to go back to.

slmorgan42 · Feb 25, 2025

fnegroni said:
You can long press the ‘voice command’ button on the steering wheel that should activate Siri and just say ‘open maps’ or whatever app you wish to go back to.

Just tried this, and it solves my problem. Thank you

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