Custom CarPlay connect & disconnect sounds
Custom CarPlay connection sound, and a different one when you unplug.
Install CARFACE, pick a sound for the moment CarPlay connects and another for when you unplug — your car plays them every drive. iOS has no built-in setting for this.
Free to download
no account needed
RequiresiPhone on iOS 26 or later
Needs CarPlayThe sound fires the moment CarPlay connects — wired or wireless.
Hear it here — two buttons, no download
When you plug in
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When you unplug
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the pair
Every sound is a pair. Plug in, and unplug.
The wave is the only thing on this page that moves. It moves to say one thing: there is sound here. Tap any of the six below — they play right here, no download.
Tap any sound below — it plays here, right now
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Jarvis · welcome
pair · voice · sci-fi
Welcome back, Queen Serena
pair · voice · personalised
BMW
pair · car culture
Atlanta City
pair · music · hip-hop
Car meme
pair · meme
Dear God
pair · music
make your own
Or make one nobody else has.
The library is where you start. What keeps people is a sound no one else has — type a line for the car to say, or upload a clip of your own.
Way 1 · type it
Type it. Your car says it.
Welcome back, boss.
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Way 2 · upload
Upload your own clip.
Drop a file here
mp3 · m4a · wav — up to 30 seconds
A line from a film, your kid saying your name, the engine of the car you used to have. Trim it in the app and set it as the connect sound.
the moment
Exactly when it fires.
A few seconds, twice a drive — at the start and at the end. It never cuts into music that is already playing.
Plug in
Cable in, or wireless CarPlay picks you up
Nothing yet — the car is still waking the screen.
Your connect sound plays
Through the car speakers, at full clarity, before anything else starts. Most clips run a few seconds.
Music takes over
Spotify, Apple Music, podcast — whatever you had going.
Unplug
You park and pull the cable
Or the engine goes off and CarPlay drops.
Your disconnect sound plays
A different clip — the sign-off, not the greeting.
Silence
Nothing left running, nothing draining battery.
Set once in the app · fires every drive after that · no setting to re-arm
objections
Before you download
Can I hear one before I download?
Yes — two buttons at the top of this page play the connect and disconnect sounds, and the six pairs above play in full. Nothing to install to find out whether you like it.
Sounds silly. Will I get bored of it?
Probably of that one sound, yes — which is why swapping it takes two taps. The habit that lasts isn't one clip, it's the car greeting you at all.
Is connect the same sound as disconnect?
Two separate sounds. Change either one on its own, or set the same clip for both if that's what you want.
Does it talk over my music?
It plays through the car speakers at the moment of connecting, before playback starts — a few seconds, then out of the way.
what drivers say
4.04
★★★★☆
from 242 ratings on the App Store
★★★★★ · the connect moment
"Every time I plug in my phone the car greets me. Small thing, love it."
HHoai533
★★★★★ · two sounds
"Set the engine start for plugging in and a soft chime for when I park. Feels like the car has manners now."
danielp_88
★★★★☆ · made my own
"Recorded my daughter saying my name and used it as the connect sound. That one got me."
mnguyen.tran
★★★★★ · works every drive
"Set it once three weeks ago, never touched it since. Plays every single time."
RoadTripRee
Sound questions
Yes — through the car speakers, at the moment CarPlay connects, before playback starts.
Any time, in two taps. Connect and disconnect are separate, so you can change just one.
A curated library of short audio clips, plus anything you type or upload yourself.
Yes — the sound fires on connection, wired or wireless.
It sounds like a small thing — until the day you're in a rental and nothing plays.
Free to download
works with any CarPlay car
CARFACEWidgets, connection sounds and real-time lyrics for the CarPlay screen you already look at every day.
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