If you play videos in your vehicle, does it make it a known location for apple’s stolen device protection?
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iOS 26.4 Lays Groundwork for CarPlay Video, Including Apple TV
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fatTribble
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I hope they release the Popcorn button along with this
djplong
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I have a 2018 Tesla Model 3 - and purchased FSD with the car. I know *all about* waiting for software!
Meanwhile more and more cars disable the text bar on the car's screen while driving. "For safety reasons."
Because having to grab my phone, unlock it, open the GPS app, find the search bar, and then type my destination, then lock it, then it put it back in the phone cage, all while driving, is so much safer.
Because guess what, just because some dumb f "manager" decided I mustn't type while driving, I STILL need to get to my destination no matter what.
Because having to grab my phone, unlock it, open the GPS app, find the search bar, and then type my destination, then lock it, then it put it back in the phone cage, all while driving, is so much safer.
Because guess what, just because some dumb f "manager" decided I mustn't type while driving, I STILL need to get to my destination no matter what.
I dont use a car mount so I’d rather look straight ahead at the screen than down at my phone.
Arran
macrumors 603
Good one. I was struggling to think of use cases where you’d park and still want to sit in your car. Cars are for getting from A to B. While you’re moving toward B this new feature would be disabled, and once you’re at B you get out!
Let me access my music library and not just recently added items. Stop with the damn nannying!
repoman016
macrumors 6502
Tell that to OnStar and their monthly subscription. After your month trial is up you can no longer watch videos while parked (oh noooo)
wanha
macrumors 68030
the UI is also a complete mess on this. For users that aren't familiar with Apple Music, people find a song they want to add to the list and tap it, expecting it to be added to the playlist.
But instead, that song starts immediately playing, interrupting the current song and deleting the song queue that others in the car have been adding to.
Apple should really prevent users on SharePlay from accidentally erasing the queue (unless they explicitly do it via a different submenu), but I don't exactly have high hopes of Apple caring enough about their software to fix this UX bug.
As it stands, SharePlay is pretty useless to me, because I can't be bothered to try to keep educating my friends on this, because someone ALWAYS forgets and then everyone's annoyed.
Yesterday, I waited for over an hour in a parking lot while my wife was inside at a doctors appointment.
snowatom
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If enabling video playback in CarPlay requires the vehicle to be in “Park,” it will unfortunately limit the feature to a relatively small number of cars. Many manufacturers are slow to update or add new functionality to existing models, which means a large portion of users may never gain access.
An alternative approach could be to require active GPS verification on the iPhone to confirm that the vehicle is not in motion. If the phone detects movement above a certain speed threshold, video playback could simply be disabled.
This would make the feature broadly compatible with existing vehicles, without relying on each manufacturer to implement specific “Park” validation systems. I wonder, if no one else has thought of this......
Maybe you’re an uber, delivery, taxi, etc. driver waiting for your next customer.
pacmania1982
macrumors 65816
My infotainment is super high res. If I'm sitting in it whilst charging (which isn't often) I'd like to be able to watch something on the display AND have the surround of all the speakers in the car.
pacmania1982
macrumors 65816
I was just about to post something like this. And it'll take eons for manufacturers to jump on board as we all know how fast they are...
Zorn
macrumors 65816
Really unfortunate that they are leaving the implementation to require some kind of action from vehicle manufacturers, which basically guarantees we won't see this on any cars apart from 2027+ models where they might actually add it. Virtually none of them ever add features to already shipped vehicles, which is the entire problem CarPlay was solving.
Ozid
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They're not showing them though. People are digging around and finding them. You're on a website that makes its money from doing it, but are complaining about it.
Maybe just stop visiting macrumors lol
Apple Mac Daz
macrumors 68040
And aftermarket head units Ino when mine was fitted it had a cable to link to the handbrake but it was never connected
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Rychiar
macrumors 601
right? they seem like they're spread so thin over AI and this is what they work on...
Rychiar
macrumors 601
so we'd have to look at our phones instead?