Voice texting works well, but CarPlay (at least with my iPhone 6S) severely restricts the number of artists, songs and phone contacts on your phone that you can scroll through using the knob while the car is moving. The Mazda Connect phone book and music systems have no restrictions as long as you*re using the controller knob, which is awesome and super easy. So why restrict CarPlay? PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, Mazda, remove the restrictions from CarPlay so that all phone contacts, artists and songs can be scrolled through at all times!!! I may have CarPlay removed if Mazda doesn*t fix this with an update, and I wouldn*t recommend someone add it to their Mazda as it works right now.