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Apple Says These Vehicle Brands Plan to Offer All-New CarPlay Ultra
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Interestingly, Kia has a history of upgrading vehicles that are already on the market – with the original CarPlay rollout, they offered an SD card-based update that would upgrade infotainment systems from several years before (I think the cutoff was like 2014 for Sorento, Soul, and a few others) to CarPlay.
So it's quite possible that existing EV9, EV6, and other Kias with similar dash layouts will be upgradable to CarPlay Ultra!
I hope there is a way to turn off CarPlay Ultra and revert to regular CarPlay, or this will be a show stopper for me.
Apple's software quality hasn't been great lately and I feel it is getting worse (Mail which still cannot reliably send attachments, clueless Siri, goofy AI, etc). The last thing I want is my car's instrument cluster not working because of an Apple bug. "Hey Siri, change radio station" "Heating car to max temp"
I'm also not sure why Apple would even want to get involved with this. Aren't they just opening themselves up to lawsuits?
Don't get me wrong. I love Apple hardware, and CarPlay (for use with entertainment) should be an option in every car. But keep instrument clusters and controls with the car company.
Apple's software quality hasn't been great lately and I feel it is getting worse (Mail which still cannot reliably send attachments, clueless Siri, goofy AI, etc). The last thing I want is my car's instrument cluster not working because of an Apple bug. "Hey Siri, change radio station" "Heating car to max temp"
I'm also not sure why Apple would even want to get involved with this. Aren't they just opening themselves up to lawsuits?
Don't get me wrong. I love Apple hardware, and CarPlay (for use with entertainment) should be an option in every car. But keep instrument clusters and controls with the car company.
Do you like drive over 350 miles/550 km day in day out? Because this is the range I am regularly getting in my 2 and it is not even the latest technology they offer lol
Well, it would be interesting to see what are Apple's hardware requirements for that. Considering that Aston will be updating existing models with this (and Aston Martin is not particularly famous for being an automotive computing powerhouse), then many (way cheaper) cars already on the market should get it. I would not be very optimistic about the 2022 list still being valid considering that some of the automakers are rather drifting away from the idea of 3rd party software taking over the UX in their cars - basically what MB said.
It's not about every day. It's about when I want to go away for the weekend and not have to deal with finding chargers.
You're really getting 350 miles between charging? Do you drive downhill both ways?
I’d even pay for it. Hell they make those stupid ass NBA themes and the lightning patterns cost money. I’ll give them $25 for that SD card.
The ability to pair more than one phone to the vehicle to make/receive phone calls.
The ability for the native map application to support satellite view.
The ability to change the music/podcast selection and still see navigation directions.
And many more!
The roll out will be slow, but we’ll have to see what happens when consumers learn about this and start pestering car dealerships. Things may start happening sooner than expected.
Regular cars are so similar these days, once one regular brand has it, they will all be racing to add it in order to not lose sales.
Regular cars are so similar these days, once one regular brand has it, they will all be racing to add it in order to not lose sales.
I bought that XC90 because of CarPlay. I just bought the EX90...really hoping CarPlay Ultra arrives soon...but there are plenty of other software functions that need to be ironed out first.I’m glad that Volvo is going to be one of the first car companies to support this awesome new version of CarPlay!
Volvo was actually one of the very first car companies to support CarPlay (when CarPlay was first introduced) back in 2015:
Volvo's First CarPlay Vehicle in the U.S. is the 2016 XC90, Available Now
After long promising to implement CarPlay support in its vehicles, Volvo recently announced that the new 2016 XC90 is the company's first...www.macrumors.com
in the UK - got a Peugeot 2008, but looking to get a new 3008 later this year - huge panoramic screen. Lots of space to implement CarPlay Ultra. I use voice control with CarPlay now and would be cool to be able to change temperature, radio station and other things too. Getting a Merc GLE450 for a holiday journey for a week. Lots of screens. I would have thought ripe for CarPlay Ultra.
All of those instrument clusters are still handled by the car itself, the UI is completely local assets with Apple projecting in and merging CarPlay assets. It's really not taking over the way it appears.
not exactly...same parent company owns part of each but each operates as independent companies with separate dealers. Genisis is a spin off from Hyundai, While Kia was partially acquired by the parent company. They are three separate and distinct brands.Hyundai, Kia and Genesis are all the same company. So basically, the new CarPlay is currently confirmed on models from two companies. I'm sure GM will jump on board.
If they make another James Bond movie, they should use Car Play Ultra in the Aston Martin in order to defeat pursuers .
.It always seemed odd the VW were missing from the when Audi is on it since they’re both pretty much the same cars just running re-skinned versions of the same software. Those after market coding companies will probably be able to enable it. I did read of the same happening with some Porsches that never officially supported CarPlay originally
I would never buy a car without hard controls for climate and other basic functions.
My Hyundai Ioniq 6 has OTA updates. In fact it's like sitting inside an iPhone, there's so much that's software.