CarPlay Update - Will Scenic be Affected?
Hi Guido.
Another question regarding CarPlay.
Have a look at the attached images. The bottom left shows time and distance to destination. However, the text is quite small and for me it's difficult to read.
As I don't know how CarPlay interacts with the iPhone or Scenic in particular, is it possible to make that text bigger?
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Close up shot of the Chigee AIO-5 Lite screen[/caption]
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A view of the Chigee screen from where the rider sits on the bike[/caption]
Hallo,
schreibe gerne in deiner Muttersprache.
ich lass mir immer alles ersetzen.
Im geteilten Bildschirm ändert sich bei mir die Schriftgröße. Im großen nicht.
Das ist bei Scenic gleich wie bei Google Maps.
I like how the distance and time stats appear in those shots along the bottom.
Which app is this? Is this Scenic? If so, how can I get mine to look like this in CarPlay?
Just played around with iOS 26 and CarPlay and came across this setting:
Settings (in the CarPlay interface on the Head Unit) -> Display -> Smart Display Zoom.
On my Carpuride 7" screen It gave me larger fonts and buttons in a size that are easy to hit with gloves on:
Your milage may vary based on your CarPlay device.
For me there was no need to change the font size in the Accessibility Settings any more because "Smart Display Zoom" enlarges all screen elements in a consistent way, including the "distance to destination" widget.
Best, Martin
P.S.: In case you are scratching your head about the color scheme, it is very specific to the V-Strom 1050 XT. Marts will understand 🙂
Quote from pe112 on 17.10.2025, 04:05
The map colors are controlled by my Scenic style. I have added it to the "Custom Map Styles" thread: https://scenic.app/forum/topic/scenic-4-custom-map-styles/#postid-14831.
Feel free to use and change it as you like 🙂
Best, Martin
Thanks. Just got home from the MotoGP. Before I left I changed from "light" to "dark" to see how that looked. Unfortunately the change didn't appear on the Chigee in CarPlay. I'll have to investigate further.
But I have just now imported your "V-Strom" screen. Looks good on the iPhone.
Hard to see how it'll look. The sun is shining straight onto the screens. But definitely matches the dash.
Question totally unrelated to either Scenic, Carplay or Chigee, but why does the dash have those yellow elements when you see them with the naked eye as all green or in the case of the fuel level the two yellow elements are supposed to be black or whatever the background color is?
And those elements which look like they're blue?
