Dukes App

NAV — Opens navigation search when you are not navigating. While navigating, tap the blue Nav control for the route card (end, pause, overview, voice).

Recenter — Centers the map on you and re-enables follow.

Settings — Opens the bottom settings drawer.

Custom or V1 Custom — Quick-toggle for a saved Uniden or V1 custom detector profile when one is configured.

ALP [profile] — Shows AL Priority status when connected. Mode changes still come from the ALP pad or CarPlay JTK.

Report (bottom-right) — Tap for the full report sheet. Long-press about 1.5 seconds submits a quick Police Visible report at your location. Police Other Side in that sheet files a visible police report for the other direction of travel. It does not mark the report as hidden or mobile, and it does not describe which way an officer is facing.

North up keeps the map with north at the top instead of rotating with your direction of travel. It is under App Settings → Map & Appearance and applies to the phone map and CarPlay cameras. Off means the map stays heading-up.

Heading up while navigating is available only while North up is on. During navigation it rotates with your heading, then north-up returns when navigation ends. Turning North up off also turns that option off.

While North up is the view on screen, the map is 2D. Upcoming Street Labels then use 2D Label Size. The iPhone heading-up follow view, and CarPlay while 3D is actually showing, use 3D Label Size. On CarPlay, North up during navigation selects classic 2D framing even if the saved 3D preference stays on. Labels still require the map to be following your vehicle. North up does not change alerts or the route.

Map style is how the base map looks: Auto, Standard, Satellite, or Hybrid. The phone control is under Map & Appearance. CarPlay has its own map style under CarPlay. On CarPlay, Auto can switch between Standard and Hybrid with speed, and Satellite stays manual. Power Saver forces Standard. Map style does not choose a route.

Traffic flow is Apple traffic coloring on roads. It is off by default. It is not Traffic rerouting, which is a separate Navigation control that can suggest or change a route.

Theme is Light, Dark, or Automatic under Appearance. Automatic can follow a clock schedule or sunset. Theme does not change map style or the route. CarPlay overlay appearance can follow the app, or be forced light or dark, for Dukes banners and badges. That overlay choice is not map style.

The location marker is the symbol for your vehicle on the map. Choose Arrow or Dot under Map & Appearance. Arrow styles include Classic and Vehicle colors such as Silver, Black, Blue, and White. Phone size and CarPlay size are separate, and CarPlay can be as small as 30 percent. Fill and outline colors are customizable.

The marker does not change alerts, voice, lockouts, follow mode, or the route. It is not the CarPlay vehicle-position offset used with Threat Horizon.

Speed and distance units are under App Settings → Driving & Standby → Units. They stay paired. Kilometers goes with KM/H, and Miles goes with MPH. Changing either control updates the other. Speed limits, Quiet Ride, distances, and similar readouts follow that pair.

CarPlay navigation distance can still disagree with the app. CarPlay Distance Units can follow Dukes or follow iPhone Maps. If the car shows kilometres while Dukes shows miles, check that CarPlay choice. It does not change the phone’s paired units by itself.

Hide detector-specific controls is under Driving & Standby and is off by default. It hides radar and detector controls in Alerts & Audio and related screens, and it can hide detector drawer tabs. Road alerts, the map, voice, and navigation stay available.

It does not disconnect a detector, delete settings, or stop those road alerts. If radar banners are missing while a detector is connected, check that this switch is off and that Standby is not waiting on the detector.

App Settings — Devices & Connections, Driving & Standby, Battery & Performance, Sound & Voice, Banners & Visuals, Muting & GPS Lockouts, Alert Sources, Map & Appearance, Navigation, CarPlay, Data & Downloads, Diagnostics, and Backup, Help & About. Use Find a setting for a specific control or Ask Dukes for an explanation. On iPhone, Ask Dukes appears at the top of App Settings.

Ready to Drive — The featured card at the top of App Settings. It is a status page, not a settings editor. It shows Driving Mode, Units, CarPlay, Sound & Voice, Banners & Visuals, Navigation, Alert Sources, Speed Limits, Regional downloads, Custom Feeds, and Backup, and jumps you into those screens.

Bluetooth — My Devices: detectors, ALP, TMG, Flic 2. Add Device, reconnect, forget.

Default Settings — Uniden Default / Custom profiles, or V1 Settings when a Valentine One Gen2 is connected.

Location Automations — Named areas that apply settings when you enter or leave. Older versions called these Geofences.

K Blocks — Per-frequency K-band filters for Uniden models (not DS1 or V1).

Muting — GPS lockouts, Temporary Mute, Dynamic Muting, lockout map, import/export.

Encounters — Alert session history: Feed, Map, Insights.

Custom Feeds — Add community police/data feeds, bundles, and quick setup.

Phone: tap Report for police, traffic, crash, hazard, weather, road closed, and more. Long-press for instant Police Visible.

CarPlay: the report button opens a category grid, not an instant police ping. You can reorder those buttons under App Settings → CarPlay → CarPlay Report Order.

Voting (Still There / Not There) is available when you are close to a police report, including thumbs confirmation near the CarPlay speed overlay when that option is on.

Turn it on: open App Settings → Map & Appearance → Upcoming Street Labels, or App Settings → CarPlay → Upcoming Street Labels in the Map section. These controls share one setting. When enabled, Street Label Style offers Capsule (default) or Capsule + Nib, which adds a small pointer at the junction. 2D Label Size and 3D Label Size each offer Compact, Standard (default) or Large; each map uses the size for the mode it is actually showing. Label size also adjusts automatically with map zoom, getting a little smaller as the map zooms out, and larger text sizes in iOS keep labels readable even with Compact. Style and sizes are shared by iPhone and CarPlay.

Install your region: use App Settings → Data & Downloads → Threat Horizon Road Map. Labels need usable Road Map coverage at your current location and a road match. A map installed for another region is not enough. Speed Packs, CSA overlays, CSA risk data and camera databases are separate downloads. The Threat Horizon HUD does not need to be enabled.

Keep the map following your vehicle: tap Recenter after browsing away. On iPhone, the heading-up 3D follow map uses 3D Label Size and North up uses 2D Label Size; an obscured map does not show labels. On CarPlay, the classic camera uses 2D Label Size and the active 3D Navigation Map uses 3D Label Size. North up during navigation or Highway 2D switch CarPlay to 2D even while the saved 3D preference remains on, and the label size follows the mode that is actually showing.

Enabled but no labels? Check that the active map is following your vehicle, location availability, and Road Map coverage first. Even with coverage, a usable road match and eligible side street ahead are needed. Labels are limited to up to three without navigation or two during navigation; an empty stretch of road is not necessarily a setup problem.

Help without Apple Intelligence: bundled help, search and Browse all help work on supported iPhones without a ready model or an internet connection. Settings changes and setup also work locally. Optional Apple Intelligence assistance is off by default. If the phone is hot, help uses the bundled guide without model assistance.

Finding the right answer: name the button or setting and choose iPhone or CarPlay. Common questions provide starting points. Expand Full answer details to read the complete explanation, or search Browse all help.

Current state: Ask Dukes reads only relevant approved app settings and requirements. It cannot see your screen or reconstruct a past alert. Unknown state is not the same as off.

You approve changes: suggested setting changes require your action. Multiple changes can open Review Changes. Choose a next step to open a setting or review the current and proposed values. Ask about a first drive to open Set Up Dukes. Ask Dukes does not configure custom feeds, explain alert sourcing, inspect private contents or control detector hardware.

Privacy and updates: questions are not saved or sent to a Dukes AI server. Other app features may use online services. The app includes reviewed help with each build; it does not search the web for answers. If the bundled guide cannot load, use Settings Search and include your app version and build in a support report.

First launch offers a guided demo. Replay Onboarding and the Power Features Tour are under App Settings → Backup, Help & About → About. Replay them any time. They walk through the map and the main controls, and they do not change your saved settings by themselves.

Standard: Laser → Ka → MRCD → K → X → GATSO. Gatso Early: Laser → Ka → MRCD → GATSO → K → X. Signal Strength: the strongest signal becomes primary.

Custom: select Custom, then open Custom Order. Drag the six supported groups — Laser, Ka, MRCD, K, X and GATSO — into your preferred order, highest priority at the top. Every group stays in the list; you do not need to remove a band to lower its priority. The order is saved across app launches.

For example, to prioritize Laser, K, then Ka, move those three to the top in that order and leave MRCD, X and GATSO below them. Reset to Default restores the Standard band order while keeping Custom selected. To use a preset again, choose it in Radar Priority.

The selected priority also guides Dukes-generated radar-tone selection when multiple signals compete. It does not change the detector's own speaker settings or the separate spoken-alert Priority Order under Sound & Voice.

Police is the normal report. Hidden Police means the report was received as a concealed or hidden police report. Mobile Police means the report was received as police with a mobile camera. A report without that detail stays a normal Police report.

On a large banner, the title reads POLICE, HIDDEN POLICE, or MOBILE POLICE. The spoken alert says “Police”, “Hidden police”, or “Police with mobile camera”, followed by the road when a road name is available. Compact pills stay short and do not grow to fit the longer names.

The map pin stays the police shield. Hidden Police adds a small crossed-out eye at the upper corner. Mobile Police adds a small camera mark at the upper corner. Both are still police reports, not camera-database alerts. The center star still changes color with how fresh the report is. The shield itself can still turn red when that report is the one offered for a vote. Those two colors mean different things, and the corner mark does not replace either of them.

The road text, including a name such as HWY 99 N, identifies the road associated with the report. It is not a statement of which way an officer is facing or which way enforcement is aimed.

Police Other Side, in the report sheet on iPhone and the report grid on CarPlay, files a visible police report for the other direction of travel. It uses the normal police pin. It is not a Hidden Police or Mobile Police report.

Standard — Up to about one hour from the original report time.

30 Minutes — Shorter cap from the original report time.

Live Presence — Stays while the report is still being observed, with a one-hour fallback if presence updates stop.

A later confirmation (thumbs-up / Still There) does not restart the Standard or 30 Minutes clock. Confirmation count and latest confirmation age can still show on pills and map pins.

Construction and road closures keep long-lived behavior and are not on this list.

The star on a police shield shows how fresh the report is. The color style is chosen with the police report freshness setting. Show report age on police pills can also print a phrase such as “20 min ago.” Max report age limits tone and voice only. An older report can still appear on the map.

When you are close enough for Dukes to offer a vote, the shield can turn red. That red shield is the vote state. It is not the star’s age color. Still There and Not There are the votes. Not There removes the alert. Still There can shrink it to a pill. The corner mark on Hidden Police or Mobile Police does not change the star or the red vote shield.

Pill banners keep extra or dismissed alerts as compact chips. They have their own filter mode and distance.

CarPlay Police Proximity Glow draws a halo behind police map icons as you get closer (soft / strong / pulse distances). Separate from Flash Nearby Police Pill, which pulses the pill border.

Background alerts and duplicate merging are configured under CarPlay background notifications. Newest matching report wins.

Database source: Dukes, Enhanced US/CA, or ExCam. Do not rely on a published camera count — it changes as databases update.

Voice modes include All Alerts, Timed Cooldown, Same Road Only, and Smart Same Road. CarPlay camera icons and approach banners are off by default and live in Banner & CarPlay.

Deleted cameras can be restored from Camera Alerts when any have been hidden.

Turn on Enable GPS Lockouts to apply your saved choices. While the master switch is off, automatic learning and manual lockouts are inactive. Turning it back on restores the choices shown. Turn on Auto-learn lockouts if you want Dukes to learn recurring signals.

A pass is counted when you enter the mute radius, the signal matches band and frequency, and — for later passes — you have left the radius and come back. Sitting still at the same door sensor does not earn another pass.

Default is 3 passes to activate. The first detection at a new site counts as pass 1 after a brief dwell. Visit interval defaults to 4 hours (0 means every qualifying re-entry can count).

Learning lockouts are saved but not yet muting. Active lockouts mute matching alerts. Manual lockouts skip learning and become active immediately.

Matching uses the same band, a location inside the mute radius (default 400 m), and frequency within K-band drift (default ±10 MHz). Highway Guard tightens that window at high speed or when Ka is active.

Lockout Retention: Automatic (default) can remove auto-learned lockouts after repeated verified misses. Keep Forever never auto-removes promoted lockouts; you can still delete them yourself.

Overlapping promoted lockouts of the same band are handled carefully so one site is not deleted because of the other.

Use Map of saved lockouts, the searchable list with merge, and import/export (JSON and CSV) in the lockout toolkit.

Low-speed mute — Optionally silence X/K (and separately MRCD/Gatso) below a speed. Off by default.

Dynamic Muting — Three separate app-side controls, all off by default. They silence Dukes audio. They are not GPS lockouts, not Temporary Mute, and they do not change a detector menu by themselves.

App Tone Blocks — Up to eight app-side K-band audio suppression windows for Uniden R4/R4w/R8/R8w/R9/R9w and ALP radar, using frequency, strength and direction conditions. DS1, Valentine and Escort are not supported. No hardware commands are sent. Different from detector K Blocks.

Ka Mute Override — On by default. If you have manually muted and a new Ka appears, the detector is unmuted. Separate from GPS lockout Ka protection, which will not apply K-band lockout mute while Ka is active.

Synchronized lockouts — Off by default. When on, promoted X/K/Ka lockouts can also write to detector mute memory on supported Uniden hardware. MRCD/Gatso stay app-side.

Faster hardware mute for GPS lockouts is a V1-only option, off by default, and does not run while Ka is active.

Durations: 5, 15 (default), 30, or 60 minutes.

Supported: Eligible Uniden, Radenso, Valentine, Escort and ALP radar alerts. Laser, MRCD, Gatso, other photo-radar groups and unknown bands cannot be temp-muted. Availability of detector hardware muting depends on the connected model and settings.

Allow Temporary Mute for Ka is off by default. Use carefully — it can silence Dukes audio for a strong Ka.

Also Mute Connected Detector is off by default. Without it, only Dukes tones and voice are silenced; the detector speaker can still sound. Hardware support varies.

Remove a mute from the Muting list or from the banner action. Temporary Mute keeps the alert visible. A normal tap mute is one-time and has no timer. It is not a GPS lockout, not a detector hardware mute, and not a permanent audio setting. When the timer ends, Dukes audio for that signal can return.

Phone, CarPlay muted-banner, and Data Mode can all show Temporary Mute status. CarPlay muted-banner Temporary Mute is on by default.

These three controls live under the Muting drawer, in Dynamic Muting. Each is off by default. Each silences Dukes audio. None of them is a GPS lockout, Temporary Mute, or a change to a detector menu. A detector can have its own Quiet Ride; that hardware control is separate from Dukes Quiet Ride.

Signal-strength muting keeps a weak signal quiet until it reaches the strength you set for that band. It does not care about your speed or the posted limit.

Quiet Ride mutes at low speed unless the signal is strong enough to break through. You set the speed in your current units. If the speed reading is wrong, Quiet Ride can mute at the wrong time. It is not “mute below the speed limit.”

PSL muting mutes the bands you select while you are below the posted speed limit plus a buffer. Zero buffer means only below the posted limit. A strong signal can still break through. It needs a usable posted limit for the road. If that limit is wrong, PSL follows the wrong number. It is not Predictive mode and not the sign you can see out the window unless those happen to match.

The same Dukes audio mute applies on the phone and while CarPlay is connected. CarPlay can label a muted radar banner as Quiet Ride or a similar reason. The detector speaker is unchanged unless a separate hardware mute is on.

Live Risk Score is a percentage and a level for where you are now. It can reflect live police, radar or Ka, laser, and local patterns. Levels are Neutral, Low, Moderate, High, and Critical. Neutral means there is nothing meaningful to score. It does not mean you are about to be stopped, and it is not a count of tickets.

It is not the CSA enforcement heatmap, and it is not Threat Horizon. The heatmap is historical enforcement tint on the map. Threat Horizon is a CarPlay forward display with a different scale: Low, Elevated, High, and Immediate.

On iPhone it is Show threat intelligence under Map & Appearance, on by default. Show it as a bottom banner or the map box. Sensitivity is Chill, Normal, or Aggressive. On CarPlay, Show risk badge is off by default and is display-only. While Threat Horizon is showing, it replaces that badge.

The CSA Enforcement Overlay draws historical enforcement heat on the map. The tint comes from CSA overlay downloads for a region, managed under Data & Downloads or Map & Appearance. Optional heat along a navigation route is a separate choice and is off by default.

It is not Live Risk Score, which is a level for where you are now. It is not Threat Horizon, which looks ahead on CarPlay. The overlay does not create police alerts and it does not change radar detection.

The overlay toggle is on by default. Intensity, and a filter of Show All, Medium and High, or High Only, change how strong the tint looks. You can exclude places where you do not want the tint. Phone and CarPlay can both show the heat when it is enabled. A missing regional download is a common reason the map has no tint.

Police ahead. A headline such as Police · 600 m · Ahead · Same Direction belongs to a specific forward report. While cruising, Dukes checks the road and direction of travel. During navigation it can follow your route, so a report beyond the exit you’ll take may drop out. Same-Street Threats can include reports ahead on a matching street when road geometry is difficult to resolve. It starts off.

Nearby police cards. Turn on Show Secondary Police in Threat Horizon to use the strip for nearby reports when there is no active forward threat. Each card can show a bearing arrow, distance, street, report age and confirmations when available. A card pointing behind you is still useful nearby context. The shelf uses the existing eligible secondary reports and the space on your display.

When a forward threat takes over. The headline replaces the cards. With Secondary Police HUD Only off, eligible secondary police can use their usual pills beside an active HUD. Turn HUD Only on if you prefer those police pills suppressed while the active headline is showing. The cards can return after the threat clears. HUD Only setting. If the HUD itself is unavailable, normal pill rules apply.

If you want a count instead. Under Risk Badge, enable Show risk badge and Show nearby police. Choose Count + Distance or Police Count Only and set the radius. This controls the floating badge’s summary. Individual cards use the secondary-police settings above.

Risk gauge. The percentage and label on the left of Signature show Live Risk for your current location. For example, 27% · Low can appear alongside a police report 2.9 km ahead. Critical on the gauge is a Live Risk level.

Forward rail. The rail runs from Now toward an 8 km horizon. A marker’s distance belongs to its report or location. Live police can remain the headline even when a historical hotspot is closer. On narrower displays the rail can simplify to make the next threat readable.

What can appear. Threat Horizon considers live police, active laser, enforcement hotspots, learned Ka locations and optional aircraft. Heat Ahead Sensitivity defaults to Moderate+. Ka Encounters Required and Ka Hotspot Retention Days govern learned locations. Enable aircraft under Alert Sources → Aircraft Awareness → Show in Threat Horizon.

Only Above Set Speed hides the strip below your chosen minimum. The starting threshold is 40 km/h when you enable the option. Hide Threat Horizon When Empty lets the strip disappear when there is no eligible forward content or secondary police card to show. Both options start off.

When the HUD displays Risk, it takes the place of the floating badge. The badge can return when the HUD hides if Show risk badge is enabled. A hidden HUD also leaves radar in your selected banner. A quiet strip means Dukes has no qualifying report to show.

A Location Automation can change alert, laser, and radar preferences while you are inside an area you created, then restore the previous settings when you leave. Alert changes can include cameras, community alerts, voice and tones, GPS lockouts, and some navigation or privacy choices. Laser changes can include an ALP profile or TMG detection-only. Radar changes can include supported detector overrides and app Dynamic Muting.

If two areas overlap, the higher-priority one wins where the settings conflict. Show geofence borders under Map & Appearance can draw the outline. CarPlay can show a brief notice when you enter or leave. Bluetooth reconnect is separate.

Help answers do not list your areas, their names, or their locations, and they cannot edit them.

Create an area, draw a polygon on the map, then set Where, When, Actions, Priority, and review the Summary.

Actions are grouped: Alerts (cameras, community, voice/tones, GPS lockouts, some navigation and privacy), Laser (ALP device profile A/B/C, TMG detection-only), and Radar (Uniden overrides, V1G2 overrides, ALP band muting, app Dynamic Muting).

Boundary Behavior uses Entry Buffer, Exit Buffer, Entry Delay, Exit Delay, Minimum Stable Time, and Ignore Poor GPS Accuracy so the automation does not flicker at the edge of the zone.

Direction: R8/R9 families are directional (front/side/rear). R4 is omnidirectional.

Default Settings captures or applies the Default profile. Custom Profile is a full editor (bands, city/highway, GPS, display, expert options) and can be toggled from the map bar.

K Blocks are Uniden-only frequency notches for BSM. DS1 does not show this tab.

Gatso and MRCD, GPS lockouts, hardware mute, and optional Uniden Laser Pack / Laser TP logging are available where the hardware supports them. App Tone Blocks are R4/R8/R9 only.

Modes: All Bogeys, Logic, Advanced Logic. Optional indicators on the phone map, CarPlay map, and Data Mode.

BSM+ needs firmware v4.1035+. Auto Volume needs compatible firmware and changes detector volume over ESP, not Dukes alert volume.

Custom Frequencies and Frequency Rules. Saved Detector Profiles do not store custom frequencies. Optional automatic City/Highway profiles by speed.

K Auto Mute, Logic Mute status, Gatso RT4, Photo Radar Intersection Management Filter, and related photo-radar options live in V1 Settings. V1 has no built-in GPS lockout memory and no K Blocks — phone GPS lockouts still apply.

AL Priority (ALP) and TMG are laser systems you can add from the Settings drawer under Bluetooth → Add Device. Dukes can show that they are connected and can speak laser alerts. ALP has no speaker, so Dukes app tones carry ALP radar audio.

Laser Defense Alerts, under App Settings → Sound & Voice, controls Dukes spoken laser alerts for these systems and for a detector’s laser alerts. It does not set the hardware volume and does not change the laser system’s operating mode. Ask Dukes does not send hardware commands.

ALP: remembered device + PIN, auto-connect, Ignore ALP mute for radar, ALP radar antenna installed (Data Mode labeling), parking proximity display, voice packs, encounter logging, background reconnect. Device profiles A/B/C can be switched by Location Automations → Laser.

TMG: Auto/Front/Rear role, reconnect, banner duration and colors, PSL/JTK timing, detection-only, CarPlay JTK parity, and encounter logging. Pairing uses the code shown in the device footer.

Flic 2 is a physical shortcut button. Add it from Bluetooth → Add Device, then map single press, double press, and hold to the actions shown on that screen.

Add Device → Flic 2 Button. Map Single Press, Double Press, and Hold to None, Mute Detector, Add GPS Lockout, JTK Jammer, or Report Police. Optional CarPlay speedometer connection status.

3D Navigation Map is off by default. Terrain, buildings, and an immersive camera while cruising. During turn-by-turn navigation, compatible 3D follow uses a reduced pitch accepted by the head unit. North-up and the speed gate can still select classic framing. Optional Highway 2D above a speed threshold. The saved 3D preference stays on when Highway 2D or North up temporarily uses classic framing. Street labels follow the mode that is actually showing.

Pan and pinch-zoom (multitouch displays). Auto-recenter after pan is off by default — use Recenter, or choose inactivity / movement modes in Map & Camera.

Layout: Auto, Horizontal, Vertical, Small Horizontal. Portrait/vertical screens use taller overlay placement. Right-hand drive layout mirrors overlays. Layout changes apply on the next CarPlay connect.

CarPlay navigation: Full Navigation, ETA Mode, or Cluster Directions (instrument-cluster turn cards, compact cluster card, cluster alert rail).

Overlay Appearance: Follow App Appearance (default), Light, or Dark — for Dukes banners, Risk Badge, and Threat Horizon, not system CarPlay notifications.

Dashboard: Legacy or Adaptive layout. Show full dashboard visuals is off by default.

Route appearance: blue route width, heat casing width, heat colours, Dark Outer Casing. Phone CSA setting Show Enforcement Heat Along Route is separate and off by default.

Detector profiles saved on the phone can be switched from CarPlay when profiles exist.

The primary police alert stays a full banner. Secondary police reports (up to three extra) become pills so the map is not stacked with banners. Still There can shrink a banner into a pill after you confirm it. Not There removes it.

Pills can show report age (for example “20 min ago”), a freshness star, and confirmation count / latest confirmation age when those Custom Feed options are on. Pill distance and filter settings are separate from the main banner distances.

Flash Nearby Police Pill pulses the pill border when you are close. CarPlay Police Proximity Glow is different — it highlights police map icons, not the pill.

Pill approach voice reminders are optional and off by default in Alert Sources → Police reports. Choose repeated distance milestones or a single early warning, then the available distance and audio options. These do not change the first primary police announcement and are separate from background police reminders.

Camera and hazard pills are compact approach chips. Muted radar stays visible as a muted banner or pill so you can still see the signal. Temporary Mute can show on muted radar status.

Short CarPlay toasts also appear for Location Automations (zone active, then default settings restored on exit), GPS lockout added or removed, report sent, Still There / Not There, and ALP/TMG mode changes.

Choose Notification Destination: Both (default), Phone Only, CarPlay Only, or Advanced per alert family. Police, cameras, hazards, laser, and radar (with band toggles) can alert while the phone map is not the screen in front and CarPlay is connected.

A locked iPhone can still silence Dukes speech if you mute voice while the screen is off. That voice gate is separate from this destination. These alerts are not a promise that every phone notification will appear.

Radar re-alert delay and re-alert trigger are separate for unmuted and muted signals. Muted-reason labels can show GPS Lockout, Low Speed, Quiet Ride, Weak Signal, Manual Mute, Temporary Mute, and similar.

Live Background Alerts (Live Activity / widget) is off by default.

Tiles include Radar (priority signal), Alert (police reports), Speed + limit, Threat / risk, and Camera when approaching cameras. Optional Follow app theme and Small/Big element size. V1 mode can appear here if that indicator is enabled. Follow app theme only changes the dashboard look. It does not change the route.

3D Navigation Map is the saved CarPlay preference. It is off by default. While it is the mode on screen, CarPlay uses a 3D follow view. During navigation, compatible 3D follow uses a reduced pitch the head unit accepts.

Highway 2D can switch that view back to classic 2D framing above a speed while 3D is still the saved preference. North up during navigation can also select classic framing. Turning Highway 2D off does not by itself delete the saved 3D preference. Upcoming Street Labels use 2D or 3D size based on the mode actually showing, not only the saved preference.

The phone map has its own North up control. CarPlay 3D does not change phone map style, traffic coloring, or the route.

CarPlay Report Order changes the order of the report-grid buttons. It does not send a report by itself, and it does not change which reports exist. The vehicle decides how many buttons fit and the final grid layout. Open it under App Settings → CarPlay.

Experimental. Night Hybrid is off by default and is not a standard map mode. It is CarPlay only. It follows CarPlay night appearance and only affects Hybrid map imagery, which it darkens and mildly desaturates. It does not change the phone map, alerts, or routing.

Intensity darkens that treatment. Tone shifts it from neutral charcoal toward cool navy and does not control how dark it is. Both sliders are tuning controls. Hybrid in Map Style is a different choice: it selects hybrid imagery. Night Hybrid is an extra night treatment on top of that imagery, under CarPlay → Experimental / Testing.

Voice routing is under App Settings → Sound & Voice. It controls what happens to other audio while Dukes speaks, including navigation speech. It does not guarantee which speaker a car will use.

Duck Music is the default. It lowers other audio during speech, then restores it. Stop Music pauses music until the announcement finishes. Mix is intended for CarPlay and mixes speech with car audio; it does not promise a particular head-unit mix. iPhone Speaker sends speech to the iPhone speaker. Media Audio uses media-style playback. Try Media Audio or Mix if music reaches the car but voice alerts do not. Test Voice speaks “Police reported ahead.” and uses the same path as live alerts.

Dukes can intentionally suppress its own speech. These gates are under Sound & Voice and are off unless you turn them on. They are not a broken speaker, a GPS lockout, or Temporary Mute.

Speech can be silenced when the screen is off, or only police speech can be silenced when the screen is off. Other gates: volume at zero, no detector connected, no ALP connected, not moving after an idle delay (default 10 minutes, range 2–30), and mute after CarPlay or Bluetooth disconnects. A locked phone uses the screen-off gate. CarPlay can still be connected while that gate silences Dukes speech.

Predictive speed limits can show an upcoming lower limit before you reach it. The timing is Closer, Standard, Earlier, Earliest, or Custom. The number can differ from the sign beside the vehicle. It is an early display, not proof of the posted limit.

Current Road is the recommended mode when you want the limit for the road you are on. Predictive is optional. Using it for TMG Auto or RCV is off by default. A wrong prediction is a reason to switch back to Current Road or correct the limit with the map pencil. It is not a speed corridor and not PSL muting.

Standby is one choice under Driving & Standby: Off, Radar detector, ALP or TMG, CarPlay, Standalone, or Unplugged. Off stays awake. Radar detector waits about five minutes after the detector disconnects. ALP or TMG waits until both laser systems have been disconnected for five minutes. CarPlay waits five minutes without CarPlay, wired or wireless. Standalone keeps detector scanning off and can standby five minutes after unplugging unless Allow unplugged operation is on. Unplugged pauses GPS, Bluetooth, and background updates until power or CarPlay returns.

Performance is separate: Balanced (default), Best Quality, or Battery Saver. Battery Saver is the choice that turns on Power Saver. Power Saver lowers visual map workload and forces the standard map. Detector processing, alert audio, muting, and lockouts stay active. Reduced rendering load and reduced location load are experimental, off by default, and are extra visual or location savings. They are not Standby. Very high heat can still trigger protection. If alerts seem to stop in the background, check whether status says Standby before changing audio settings.

Navigate with Dukes share extension. Siri shortcuts. Privacy policy explains local storage and optional online services. Support: [email protected].