I use both and I find that it is at best equal to other EV’s (eg navigation) and in some cases behind (Music, messaging, calendar). What am I missing, what’s so special about it.
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Here's When Tesla is Expected to Add Support for Apple CarPlay
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Ok. You don’t like these functionality. Yes one can live without all of this, but then again, it’s the year 2025 and not 2012.Stored in the phone? You mean downloaded music? Or is this 2003 and using iPhone as an external HDD?
Music stops when there is no cell coverage. No comment here. wow.
Never ever use messaging while driving. Not even voice to text. Never. It can wait until I get to my destination.
Ok I give it to you. Teams would have been nice. Whatsapp calls just work when you answer the phone.
NO parking apps.. Sure. Or you can also use the app after you've parked.
(I do have music stored in the phone that is not on Apple Music or Spotify.)
Of course I dictate and receive messages while driving, and many are group messages.
Of course I get and make calls on Teams and WhatsApp (quality is better, but you are correct, one can accept calls) while driving.
Of course there is bad cell phone coverage in tunnels in Europe, and in the middle of nowhere in the UK (it’s worse than it should be….). Tesla doesn’t even have a buffer long enough to keep playing for 30 seconds.
Of course I want to play the stupid LTR fees as soon as I see the sign, otherwise I forget and get slapped with a £120 fine.
Messaging and calling in the Tesla is horrendous. It’s so bad it’s a dangerous distraction.
?, mic button and "call Xxx" , and messaging? really? you're writing sms while driving....?
Apple make great OS software when it is working with its own hardware. With CarPlay they have strict hardware requirements to install it on cars.
Apples software is notoriously bad on other firms hardware, just stay away from Apple Software in Windows, it’s horrid.
Conversely, Tesla’s app on iOS is the best in the business.
Not who you’re responding to, but I use both. For calls, Tesla’s isn’t bad, but I prefer CarPlay because my favorites are front and center and the car’s voice recognition doesn’t work well for me. (Don’t help my wife name is an uncommon, but similar sounding to a common name. It’s always a 50/50 shot if I call my wife or a coworker when I ask the car).
For messages, I get a lot. I have the car read them to me. If it’s a message from a single person, Tesla’s system works great (although again, voice recognition isn’t great for me). But it completely falls on its face with group messages. Maybe I’m doing something wrong, but it never tells me if it’s a group message or not (just “Person A wrote”, did they send that to me directly or in a group message? Tesla has no idea) and there is literally no way to respond to a group message though the car without picking up the phone, which is obviously not safe.
Don’t get me wrong; Tesla’s system is absolutely better than any other car manufacturer. It’s legitimately great. But calling and messaging is, in my opinion, definitely better in CarPlay. So I’ll handle calls and texts (and third party apps) via CarPlay and everything else via Tesla. Best of both worlds!
don't give a s**t if Tesla native UI is superior to CarPlay
I need CarPlay for the INTEGRATION with phone and messages…
It’s not about music, podcast or navigation
I need CarPlay for the INTEGRATION with phone and messages…
It’s not about music, podcast or navigation
If this is your take then you don’t understand the value. “Read messages’ is super useful on my drive to work and back. You can conversationally reply, as you would were you just talking to a person in the car. Even WhatsApp and Facebook messages. By the time I get to work I have coordinated things with 3 or 4 different family members, and not taken my hands off the steering wheel or my eyes off the road the whole way.
It never answered the headline.
In his Power On newsletter today, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reiterated that Tesla plans to add Apple CarPlay support to its vehicles "in the coming months."
This is easily the biggest news for the regular version of CarPlay in years, should Tesla actually follow through with offering the system in its vehicles.
As noted by Gurman, this would be a stunning reversal for Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk, who have long ignored customer requests to implement CarPlay. We shall see what ultimately happens, though. Musk could change his mind at any moment.
Tesla plans to offer the regular, wireless version of CarPlay, rather than the more advanced CarPlay Ultra system, according to Gurman. CarPlay would appear within a window inside of Tesla's broader software interface, he said.
Tesla currently offers Apple Music and Apple Podcasts apps through its own interface.
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Curious how far back in vehicle age this will be offered.
There’s literally no downside in giving people options.
This move isn’t for Tesla owners, it’s for would be Tesla owners who walk out of stores saying “I can’t believe they don’t have CarPlay.”
My hope is it forces Rivian and GM to follow suit
This move isn’t for Tesla owners, it’s for would be Tesla owners who walk out of stores saying “I can’t believe they don’t have CarPlay.”
My hope is it forces Rivian and GM to follow suit
It did. “In the coming months”.
Tesla tends to go pretty far back for support so my guess will be all HW3 vehicles which is like 2019 or 2020.
If it goes back to HW 2.5 , even better . Remember that Apple is doing all the heavy lifting and the CarPlay support is just the car showing the CarPlay screen somehow.
“In the coming months” is an indefinite time period. It’s definitely not an answer.
Oh god please let it come to my 2019. I had to add a hannshow external display for CarPlay. I need my podcast and music without paying a monthly subscription no thank you. My 2019 hw 2.5 was upgraded free haha to 3.0. I hope it’s covered. Pleasseeee
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When I first tried a Tesla I missed carplay deeply. Then when I left Tesla and went back to carplay I missed Tesla's infotainment system deeply lol
I’ve been using my Model 3 for 2 years. While Tesla’s UI is certainly very pretty compared to CarPlay, I find it to be more unsafe to use while driving than CarPlay (I guess unless you are using FSD or some type of autopilot, which I don’t). I’m always stumbling through Apple Music or Podcasts to try to get to my stuff. Like I said, it’s very pretty, but I don’t find it functional (while driving) or particularly safe to use. CarPlay always felt safer to me. I was also an Overcast user before buying a Tesla, so it would be nice to have that as an option again. I do like navigation much better on Tesla’s UI than CarPlay, though, for sure. Pros and cons. If there was a way to use CarPlay (for music, podcasts, and general iPhone integration) and Tesla’s navigation at the same time, that would be great and best of both worlds for me.
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Yes but Tesla is ****** at making cars. So I'd rather buy a proper car with CarPlay than a **** car with Tesla software.
CarPlay does not take up the entire screen in the Ford Mustang Mach E and Ford Lightning. Tesla is likely to do the same as Ford with respect to CarPlay on the big center screen.
my only issue is the left field on the displays shows the useless visualization animation. I find it inconvenient to swipe on the right side of the screen.......... With CarPlay I am not liking the idea of reaching over to find a podcast. Hence why I have a column mounted carplay display from hannshow. I hope they find a better solution.
Here what I think: it will NOT be a full implementation of CarPlay, since Tesla's own infotainment system already has an excellent mapping system based heavily on Google Maps. It will only allow CarPlay functionality for the iPhone, plus audio stored on the iPhone's Apple Podcasts and Apple Music apps.
CarPlay is a display and controller solution for the iPhone. The car provides a display surface/window, integration with controllers (touchscreen, buttons, knobs), audio (mic, speakers), and telemetry (GPS, information about the car like battery charge state). The rest is done on the phone. CarPlay adapts to the size of the display the car will support. So there's no such thing as "not a full implementation of CarPlay", in the same way that a monitor always has "a full implementation" of your computer's OS.
Someone who understands what CarPlay is and how it actually works. All of these Tesla people jumping on about UI blah blah blah. CarPlay is the iPhone’s display relayed to the car’s screen and it’s that integration that people like.