2014 LINCOLN MKZ steering

Helpful Hints
• Make sure the interior of yourvehicle is as quiet as possible.
Wind noise from open windows
and road vibrations may prevent
the system from correctly
recognizing spoken commands.
• After pressing the voice icon, wait until after the tone sounds and
Listening appears before saying a
command. Any command spoken
before this does not register with
the system.
• Speak naturally, without long pauses between words.
• At any time, you can interrupt the system while it is speaking by
pressing the voice icon.
Accessing a List of Available
Commands
• If you use the touchscreen, press the Settings icon > Help > Voice
Command List.
• If you use the steering wheel control, press the voice icon. After
the tone, speak your command
clearly.
Available voice commands
"Audio list of commands"
"Bluetooth audio list of commands" "Browse list of commands""CD list of commands"
"Climate control list of commands" "List of commands"
Available voice commands
"Navigation list of commands" *
"Phone list of commands""Radio list of commands"
"SD card list of commands"
"Sirius satellite list of commands"
**
"Travel link list of commands" *
"USB list of commands"
"Voice instructions list of commands"
"Voice settings list of commands" "Help"
* This command is only available when
your vehicle is equipped with the
navigation system, and the navigation
system SD card is in the card slot.
** This command is only available
when you have an active SIRIUS
satellite radio subscription.
Voice Settings
Voice settings allow you to customize
the level of system interaction, help
and feedback. The system defaults
to standard interaction that uses
candidate lists and confirmation
prompts as these provide the highest
level of guidance and feedback.
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From this screen, you can also make
other adjustments such as 12-hour or
24-hour mode, activate GPS time
synchronization and have the system
automatically update new time zones.
You can also turn the outside air
temperature display off and on. It
appears at the top center of the
touchscreen, next to the time and
date.
The system automatically saves any
updates you make to the settings.
Display
You can adjust the touchscreen
display through the touchscreen or by
pressing the voice button on your
steering wheel controls and when
prompted, say, "Display settings".
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Press the Settings icon >
Display, to access and make
adjustments using the
touchscreen.
• Brightness allows you to make
the screen display brighter or
dimmer.
• Auto DIM, when set to On, lets
you use the Auto Dim Manual
Offset feature.
• Mode allows you to set the screen
to a certain brightness or have the
system automatically change
based on the outside light level, or
turn the display off.
• If you select AUTO or NIGHT,
you have the options of turning
the display's Auto Dim feature
on or off and changing the Auto
Dim Manual Offset feature. •
Auto Dim Manual Offset allows
you to adjust screen dimming as
the outside lighting conditions
change from day to night.
• Edit Wallpaper
• You can have your touchscreen
display the default photo or
upload your own.
Uploading Photos for Your Home
Screen Wallpaper
Note: You cannot load photos directly
from your camera. You must access
the photos either from your USB mass
storage device or from an SD card.
Note: Photographs with extremely
large dimensions (such as 2048 x
1536) may not be compatible and
appear as a blank (black) image on the
display.
Your system allows you to upload and
view up to 32 photos.
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To access, press the Settings
icon > Display > Edit
Wallpaper, and then follow
the system prompts to upload your
photographs.
Only the photograph(s), which meets
the following conditions, display:
• Compatible file formats are as follows: .jpg, .gif, .png, .bmp
• Each file must be 1.5 MB or less.
• Recommended dimensions: 800 x 384
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Press the voice icon on the
steering wheel. When
prompted, you can say:
"BROWSE" within devices
"Browse"*
"Browse games"**
"Browse chan-nels"**
"Browse SD card"
"Browse Sirius channel guide"
**
"Browse USB" "Help"
* If you only say, "Browse", you can
then say any commands in the
following chart.
**This command is only usable if you
have an active subscription to Sirius
satellite radio.
"BROWSE"
" Games"*
" channels"*
"SD card"**
"Sirius Channel Guide"*
"BROWSE"
"USB"**
"Help"
* This command is only usable if you
have an active subscription to Sirius
satellite radio.
** For more commands in SD card or
USB mode, see the "SD Card and USB
Port" section of this chapter.
Your voice system allows you to
change audio sources with a simple
voice command. For example, if you
are listening to music on a USB device,
then want to switch to a satellite radio
channel, simply press the voice button
on the steering wheel controls and say
the name of the Sirius station (such
as, "the Highway"). The following
voice commands are available at the
top level of the voice session no
matter which current audio source you
are listening to (such as a USB device
or Sirius satellite radio).
Note: This is only available when your
MyFord Touch system language is set
to North American English.
Sample commands
"<87.7-107.9>"
"<530-1710>"
""
*
"AM <530-1710>"
"FM <87.7-107.9>"
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HD Radio Technology manufactured
under license from iBiquity Digital
Corp. U.S. and foreign patents. HD
Radio and the HD and HD Radio logos
are proprietary trademarks of iBiquity
Digital Corp. Ford Motor Company and
iBiquity Digital Corp. are not
responsible for the content sent using
HD Radio technology. Content may
be changed, added or deleted at any
time at the station owner's discretion.
Radio Voice Commands
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If you are listening to the
radio, press the voice button
on the steering wheel
controls. When prompted, say any of
the following commands.
If you are not listening to the radio,
press the voice button and, after the
tone, say "Radio", then any of the
following commands.
"RADIO"
"<87.9-107.9>"
"<87.9-107.9> HD"
1
"<530-1710>" "AM"
"AM <530-1710>" "AM autoset"
"AM autoset preset <#>" "AM preset <#>"
"Browse"
2
"RADIO"
"FM"
"FM <87.9-107.9>"
"FM <87.9-107.9> HD <#>"
1
"FM autoset"
"FM autoset preset <#>" "FM preset <#>" "FM 1"
"FM 1 preset <#>" "FM 2"
"FM 2 preset <#>"
"HD <#>"
1
"Preset <#>""Radio off""Radio on" "Set PTY"
"Tune"
3
"Help"
1 If available.
2 If you have said "Browse", see the
"Browse" chart later in this section.
3 If you have said "Tune", see the
following "Tune" chart.
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Troubleshooting tipsAction
Cause
Radio display
The signal is blocked.
When you move into an
open area, the signal
should return.
The signal is lost from
the Sirius satellite or
Sirius tower to your
vehicle antenna.
No Signal.
No action required. The
process may take up to
three minutes.
Update of channel
programming in progress.
Updating.
Contact Sirius at 1-888-
539-7474 to resolve
subscription issues.
Your satellite service is
no longer available.
Call Sirius
1-888-539-7474.
Use the channel guide to
turn off the Lock or Skip
function on that station.
All the channels in the
selected category are
either skipped or locked.
None found. Check
Channel Guide.
No action required.
Sirius has updated the
channels available for
your vehicle.
Subscription Updated.
Sirius Satellite Radio Voice
Commands
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If you are listening to Sirius
satellite radio, press the voice
button on the steering wheel
controls. When prompted, say any of
the following commands.
If you are not listening to Sirius
satellite radio, press the voice button
and, after the tone, say "Sirius", then
any of the following commands.
"SIRIUS"
""
"Preset <#>" "SAT"
"SAT preset <#>" "SAT 1"
"SAT 1 Preset <#>" "SAT 2"
"SAT 2 preset <#>" "SAT 3"
"SAT 3 preset <#>"
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Options
Sound Settings
Touch this button to adjust settings
for:
•Bass
• Midrange
• Treble
• Balance and Fade
• THX Deep Note Demo
• DSP (Digital Signal processing)
• Occupancy Mode
• Speed Compensated Volume.
Note:Your vehicle may not have all
these sound settings.
Compression
Touch this button to turn the
compression feature off and on.
Browse
Touch this button to look through all
available CD tracks.
CD Voice Commands
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If you are listening to a CD,
press the voice button on the
steering wheel controls.
When prompted, say any of the
following commands.
If you are not listening to a CD, press
the voice button and, after the tone,
say "CD", then any of the following
commands.
"CD"
"Pause"
"Play"
"Play next track"
"Play previous track" "Play track <1-512>" "Repeat"
"Repeat folder"
*
"Repeat off"
"Repeat track" "Shuffle"
"Shuffle CD"
*
"Shuffle folder"*
"Shuffle off" "Help"
*This applies to WMA or MP3 files
only.
SD Card Slot and USB Port
SD Card
Note: Your SD card slot is
spring-loaded. To remove the SD card,
press the card in and the system ejects
it. Do not attempt to pull the card to
remove it as this could cause damage.
Note: The navigation system also uses
this card slot. See Navigation (page
407).
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SD Card and USB Voice Commands
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If you are listening to a USB
device or an SD card, press
the voice button on the
steering wheel controls. When
prompted, say any of the following
commands.
If you are not listening to a USB device
or an SD card, press the voice button
and, after the tone, say "USB" or "SD
card", then any of the following
commands.
"USB" or "SD CARD"
"Browse"*
"Next"
"Pause" "Play"
"Play album " "Play all"
"Play artist "
"Play audiobook " "Play author "
"Play composer " "Play folder ""Play genre "
"Play movie "
**
"Play music video "**
"Play playlist "
"USB" or "SD CARD"
"Play podcast "
"Play podcast episode " "Play similar music"
"Play song "
"Play TV show "
**
"Play TV show episode "**
"Play video "**
"Play video podcast "**
"Play video podcast episode "**
"Play video playlist "**
"Previous"
"Repeat all"
"Repeat off"
"Repeat one" "Shuffle"
"Shuffle album" "Shuffle off"
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Supported Media Players,
Formats and Metadata
Information
SYNC is capable of hosting nearly any
digital media player, including iPod,
Zune™, plays from device players, and
most USB drives. Supported audio
formats include MP3, WMA, WAV and
AAC.
It is also able to organize your indexed
media from your playing device by
metadata tags. Metadata tags, which
are descriptive software identifiers
embedded in the media files, provide
information about the file.
If your indexed media files contain no
information embedded in these
metadata tags, SYNC may classify
the empty metadata tags as
Unknown.
In order to playback video from your
iPod or iPhone, you must have a
special combination USB/RCA
composite video cable (which you can
buy from Apple). When you connect
the cable to your iPod or iPhone, plug
the other end into both the RCA jacks
and the USB port.
Bluetooth Audio
Your system allows you to stream
audio over your vehicle's speakers
from your connected,
Bluetooth-enabled cellular phone.
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To access, press the lower
left corner on the
touchscreen, then select the
BT Stereo tab. Bluetooth Audio Voice Commands
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If you are listening to a
Bluetooth audio device, press
the voice button on the
steering wheel control. When
prompted, say "Next song", "Pause",
"Play" or "Previous song".
If you are not listening to a Bluetooth
audio device, press the voice button
and, after the tone, say "Next song",
"Pause", "Play" or "Previous song".
A/V Inputs
WARNINGS
Driving while distracted can
result in loss of vehicle control,
crash and injury. We strongly
recommend that you use extreme
caution when using any device that
may take your focus off the road. Your
primary responsibility is the safe
operation of your vehicle. We
recommend against the use of any
handheld device while driving and
encourage the use of voice-operated
systems when possible. Make sure you
are aware of all applicable local laws
that may affect the use of electronic
devices while driving.
For safety reasons, do not
connect or adjust the settings on
your portable music player while your
vehicle is moving.
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