If you’ve used the Spotify app on any platform, the interface should feel immediately familiar, with side-scrolling lists and identical commands and features. Navigating around the Car Thing interface is surprisingly simple, and there are a few ways you can do it between the screen, voice, and buttons. As soon as your phone connects to whatever mechanism you use for audio, playback will start wherever you last left off.

Once things are correctly configured, your phone will automatically connect to the Car Thing when it’s powered on - If you’re not doing anything unusual, that means when you get into your car and start it. You can also trigger the setup process manually via the app in Settings -> Car Thing to pair an already-set-up Car Thing to a new device, but just pairing the new phone in the Bluetooth settings menu seems to do the job fine, too. The first-time steps also guide you through how to mount the phone to your car, but that should be a self-explanatory process for most people. When you plug it in for the first time, the screen displays a QR code you can scan with your phone that takes you to the app and through the process to pair it with your phone via Bluetooth.

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