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Apple Highlights Two Smaller CarPlay Changes on iOS 18.4 and iOS 26
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I've got to second that. I have the knob system in my 2017 BMW, and it's awful. It is way more distracting to use than the touch screen in my son's 2023 Prius. Besides, somewhere in the last round of updates to iOS, it just goes out to lunch sometimes, and I have to reboot my phone for the controller to start working again. Like that's not a problem while driving.
Can we just be able to touch an album cover and see the songs, and click a song to play it?? Why is that so hard??
That'd be too distracting and unsafe.
Having live sports score updates cycling across though ... no problem!
Tapping on the album title does this, and a Queue button has been added to the Now Playing screen.
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The rounded corners of CarPlay look bad when it's not covering the full screen. Unless the entire background is black, you get these awful looking black cut-outs around the corners.
I've attached one, but I've seen many examples of this over the years.
I've attached one, but I've seen many examples of this over the years.
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The roundest corners, ever!
That looks absolutely awful.
Childish, garish, overwhelming ... just hideous design work.
Why is the album cover NOT included in the art to tap? Why is this obvious usability issue not addressed? This interface is supposed to be designed for use while driving, yet they continue to make things like text labels the buttons instead of making actual buttons- or obvious elements like the album cover clickable.
Right! It's like they had designers who have never driven a car design the interface.
Multi touch is nice. Waiting to see more car models supporting it. Hopefully it will happen soon.
Is that what I think it is… Apple has finally got rid of the infuriating full-screen “someone is calling you” overlay nonsense?
All I can think of is displaying cover art is optional, whereas the album title is not.
No, it's Apple software catching up to car hardware. Cars have had multitouch screens for like 10 years, even like Kia Sorrento had one in 2017. Not a super fancy car by any means.
CarPlay is starting to demand too much attention — I can see this leading to more accidents.
Excellent changes all around, especially to Apple Maps. My only complaint is there was no mention of animated cover art in Apple Music in CarPlay.
I think that might not be fair to Fisher Price honestly.