At any time, you may say these commands:
•SYNC•USB
•Line in•Bluetooth Audio
•Phone•Voice settings
•Cancel•Vehicle health report (if
equipped, U.S. only)
•Help•Services (if equipped, U.S. only)
Voice commands when using Traffic, Directions & Information
services (if equipped, U.S. only)
When connected to services, you may say any of the following
commands:
•Services•Help
•Go back•Repeat
Available services (and voice commands) include:
•Traffic•Directions
•Business search•Sports
•News•Weather
•Favorites
For a complete list of services, say, “What are my choices” when in the
services menu.
When directions are downloaded and route guidance is active, press
or VOICE on your steering wheel controls and you may say any of the
following voice commands:
•Next turn•Route status
•Route summary•Cancel route
•Update route•Voice guidance ON
•Voice guidance OFF
MAKING A CALL
Making a hands-free phone call using SYNCis easy.
1. Press
or VOICE.
2. When prompted, say, “Call
then say “Dial”.
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To connect using voice commands:
1. Press
or VOICE.
2. When prompted, say, “Services”.
3. Once connected, follow the voice prompts to request your desired
service such as “Traffic” or “Directions”. You can also say, “What are my
choices?” to receive a complete list of available services from which to
choose.
4. To return to the services menu, say “Services” or for help, simply say,
“Help”.
To connect using the phone menu:
1. Press
or PHONE to enter PHONE MENU.
2. Scroll repeatedly until SERVICES appears in the radio display.
3. Press OK to confirm and enter the SERVICES menu. CONNECT will
appear in the radio display.
4. Press OK. SYNCwill initiate the call to the services portal.
5. Once connected, follow the voice prompts to request your desired
Service such as Traffic or Directions. You can also say, “What are my
choices?” to receive a complete list of available services from which to
choose.
6. To return to the services menu, say “Services” or for help, simply say,
“Help”.
To disconnect using voice commands or the phone menu:
•Say, “Goodbye” from the services menu or
•Press and hold
or PHONE.
RECEIVING TURN BY TURN DIRECTIONS
To begin receiving directions:
1. Connect using either the voice commands or phone menu above.
2. When prompted, say, “Directions”.
3. Follow the voice prompts to identify your desired destination.
4. Once your destination is selected, a route is downloaded to your
vehicle.
TURN BY TURN DIRECTION FEATURES
Once directions are downloaded, you can then access other features
such as: Next turn, Route status, Route summary, cancel route, update
route and also voice guidance.
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To access these features through the phone menu:
Note:To scroll, press
SEEKor/.
1. Press
or PHONE to enter PHONE MENU.
2. Scroll repeatedly until SERVICES appears in the radio display.
3. Press OK to confirm and enter the SERVICES menu.
4. Scroll repeatedly to cycle through:
•Next turn:Repeats the next turn instruction.
•Route status:Provides the number of miles and approximate time to
your destination.
•Route summary:Provides the full list of remaining turn instructions.
•Cancel route:Cancels the turn by turn driving directions.
•Update route:Downloads an updated route to your destination.
•Voice guidance on/off:When voice guidance is set to on, the system
will provide spoken directions and a visual display of the directions.
When voice guidance is turned off, the system will provide
turn-by-turn tones and a visual display of the directions without
spoken guidance.
5. When your desired feature appears in the display, press OK to confirm
and initiate the feature.
Note:If you select Voice Guidance, scroll until the desired selection
(YES or NO) appears in the display. Press OK to confirm.
Accessing these features using voice commands:Press
or
VOICE and, when prompted, say any of the above commands.
Personalizing Traffic, Directions and Information:
Your Traffic, Directions and Information Services can be personalized to
provide quicker access to your most used or favorite information. You
can save address points such as, ‘work’ or ‘home’. You can also save
favorite information like sports teams or a news category. To learn more,
log onto www.SyncMyRide.com.
Push to interrupt:You can, at any time, press
or VOICE to
interrupt a voice prompt (or sports report for example) and provide your
next voice command.
Portable:Simply connect your phone to any vehicle equipped with
Traffic, Directions and Information and continue enjoying your
personalized services.
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VOICE COMMANDS IN MEDIA MODE
WARNING:Driving while distracted can result in loss of vehicle
control, accident and injury. Ford strongly recommends that
drivers use extreme caution when using cell phones, even with voice
commands. The driver’s primary responsibility is the safe operation of
their vehicle. Only use media and other devices not essential to the
driving task when it is safe to do so.
Voice commands when using the USB port
When using the USB port, you may say any of the following
commands:
•Play all•Play
•Pause•What’s playing?
•Connections•Play next track
•Play previous track•Play next folder
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•Similar music•Play previous folder2
•Autoplay on•Autoplay off
•Repeat off•Repeat on
•Shuffle on•Shuffle off
•Play genre
1•Play playlist
•Play album
•Play track
•Search genre
•Search album
•Refine artist
1
Voice commands are not available until indexing is complete.
2Voice commands only available in folder mode. For more information,
refer toExploring the USB devicelater in this chapter.
Note:In the above possible commands,“
that it could be the name of any desired group, artist, etc.
Autoplay:With this feature ON, SYNCallows you to listen to music
which has already been randomly indexed during the indexing process.
With this feature OFF, SYNCwill not begin to play any of your music
until all media has all been indexed.
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Note:The larger the number of songs the system has to index, the
longer indexing will take. Indexing times can vary from device to device.
Search/Play Genre:You can search for and play a specific genre (type)
of music. SYNCwill search all the data from your indexed music and, if
available, will begin to play that type of music.
Note:You can only play genres of music which are present in the
GENRE metadata tags that you have on your digital media player.
Similar music:You can tell the system to play music ‘similar’ to what
you are currently playing from the USB port. SYNCwill use the
metadata information of each indexed song to compile a playlist for you.
Search/play artist/track/album:You can search for a specific
artist/track or album from the music SYNChas indexed through the
USB port.
Refine:This allows you to ‘refine’ your previous commands. For
example, if you told SYNCto search and play all music by a certain
artist, you could then tell SYNCto “refine album” and choose a specific
album from the list to view. If you then select ‘Play’, the system will only
play music from that specific album.
Voice commands while using Line in
While using the Line in feature (Auxiliary input jack), you may
speak the following commands:
•SYNC•Line in
•Bluetooth Audio•Cancel
•Phone•Voice settings
Voice commands when in Bluetooth audio mode
When in Bluetooth audio mode, you may use the following
commands:
•Play•Connections
•Pause•Play next track
•Play previous track
Note:Please refer to your device’s user guide to see if these commands
are supported forBluetoothaudio.
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At any time, you may say these commands:
•SYNC•USB
•Help•Bluetooth Audio
•Line in•Phone
•Voice settings•Read Message
•Cancel
Connecting a digital media player to SYNCvia the USB port
Note:If your digital media player has an ON/OFF switch, ensure that
the device is ON.
1. Plug the device into the vehicle’s USB port.
2. Press AUX repeatedly until SYNCUSB appears in the radio display.
3. Depending on how many digital media files are on your connected
device, INDEXING may appear in the radio display until indexing is
complete. You will then be taken to the PLAY MENU. Press OK.
4. Press
/to cycle through selections of: Play All, Albums, Genres,
Playlists, Tracks, Explore USB, Similar Music and Return.
5. When the desired PLAY MENU selection appears in the radio display,
press OK to build your desired music selection.
What’s playing?
At any time while a track is playing, you can press
or VOICE and say,
“What’s playing?”. SYNCwill read the metadata tags of the playing track
to you (if populated).
USING YOUR MEDIA MENU
SELECT SRC (SOURCE) will allow you to select from various possible
SYNCmedia sources, such as: USB, BT STEREO or LINE IN (Auxiliary
Input jack).
To access the SELECT SRC (SOURCE) within the Media section of
SYNC:
Note:To scroll, press
SEEKor/.
1. Press AUX repeatedly until SYNCappears.
2. Press MENU to enter the MEDIA MENU.
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Adding a Bluetooth media device which is in discoverable mode
Note:This is a speed dependent feature. Your vehicle must be moving
less than 3 mph (5 km/h) to use this feature.
Note:If your phone supports streamingBluetoothaudio and has already
been paired with SYNCas a phone, you do not have to go through the
pairing process again.
Note:Use this process when your device generates the PIN instead of
SYNC.
Note:To scroll, press
SEEKor/.
1. Press AUX repeatedly until SYNC appears.
2. Press MENU. MEDIA MENU will momentarily appear in the radio
display followed by PLAY MENU.
3. Scroll repeatedly until SYSTEM SETTINGS appears in the radio
display.
4. Press OK to confirm and enter the SYSTEM SETTINGS menu.
5. Scroll until BT (BLUETOOTH) DEVICES appears in the display. Press
OK to confirm and enter the BT DEVICE menu.
6. Scroll until ADD DEVICE appears in the radio display. Press OK to
confirm.
7. When FIND SYNC appears in your radio display, scroll repeatedly until
FIND DEVICES appears. Press OK to confirm.
8. After the search for active BT DEVICE is complete, scroll to find the
desired device. Press OK to confirm.
9. Refer to your device’s user guide for instructions on how to put your
device into discoverable mode. When your media device gives you a PIN,
enter that PIN into SYNCusing voice commands (or using the 0–9
memory presets on your audio system, if equipped), when prompted.
10. When you have entered your last digit via voice, say “Enter”.
11. When the process is complete, SYNCwill display CONNECTED and
the name of the device will appear in the radio display.
You can now change SYNCsources to BT (BLUETOOTH) AUDIO and
stream music from your device.
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1. Press AUX repeatedly until SYNC appears.
2. Press MENU. MEDIA MENU will momentarily appear in the radio
display.
3. Press OK to access PLAY MENU.
4. Scroll repeatedly until SYSTEM SETTINGS appears in the radio
display.
5. Press OK to confirm and enter the SYSTEM SETTINGS menu.
6. Scroll repeatedly until ADVANCED appears in the radio display.
7. Press OK to confirm and enter the ADVANCED menu.
8. Scroll repeatedly until MASTER RESET appears in the radio display
9. Press OK. SYNCwill ask you to confirm the master reset.
10. Press OK to confirm. The radio display will read RESET DONE.
SYNCwill take you back to the ADVANCED SETTINGS menu.
Installing new vehicle applications
You can download new software applications (if available) and then load
the desired applications onto SYNCthrough your USB port. Please refer
to www.SyncMyRide.com for further information.
USING SYNC’S PLAY MENU
The SYNCPLAY MENU allows you to play your music by playing all
selections, by artist listing, album listing, genre listing, playlists, tracks,
or by selecting similar music to what is currently playing. You can also
choose to ‘Explore USB’ which will allow you to explore supported digital
music files on your playing device.
WARNING:SYNCPLAY MENU manual control is a backup
interface to voice commands. Do not use SYNCPLAY MENU
manual control while driving.
Note:The PLAY MENU is only available for indexable media through the
USB port. This is not available for LINE IN and BT AUDIO.
SYNCis able to organize and sort your indexed media from your
playing device by metadata tags. Metadata tags are descriptive software
identifiers embedded in your media files which provide information about
the media file. SYNCsupports the following metadata tags:
•Artist
•Album
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