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Tesla Working to Add Apple CarPlay Support to Vehicles
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Good news.
I very nearly didn’t consider a Tesla because of lack of Apple Car play. However, now that I know how well the built in system works I really don’t have any need for car play. In fact when I had a Polestar rental the CarPlay experience was terrible in comparison.
Tesla have done a great job of bringing Apple Music and Audible etc in recent years.
I very nearly didn’t consider a Tesla because of lack of Apple Car play. However, now that I know how well the built in system works I really don’t have any need for car play. In fact when I had a Polestar rental the CarPlay experience was terrible in comparison.
Tesla have done a great job of bringing Apple Music and Audible etc in recent years.
If you get a Tesla you’ll realise you never need to use the superchargers near your house…
Oh. I didn’t realize the Apple Music Tesla app was lacking anything. It just seems to work and work very well. I def do not think drivers should be fiddling with it while driving, so there may have been some decisions made about the ui functionality,
The great thing is one can always stream from their phone.
Anything non standard falls apart without CarPlay.
E.g. I use overcast to listen to podcasts, and podcasts 90% of what I listen to when driving. With CarPlay, my podcast library synced between all my cars (which are made by different car companies), and when I'm walking, and when I'm listening do them at my desk.
Without CarPlay, everything about that breaks down, which is basically everything I listen to while driving.
And there's all kinds of things like that. I have Home Assistant triggers activated via CarPlay. My calendar/address book is loaded up, with no extra effort, including my upcoming destinations. I can take Teams calls. On my older, sportier (less reliable) cars, I can use them to pull engine codes if I have issue. At the race track I use it to control Harry's GPS Lap Timer (data acquisition software).
For me, no CarPlay just means I won't buy that car. It is irrelevant how good the cars built in system is, as it'll lock me out of interoperability with my other cars.
PLUS...
For most companies, this is really just a strategy to long term lock the cars infotainment behind a subscription paywall. Or, sell your driving behavior. Or, both. Really, I don't trust any of the car companies-- any cars I own with cellular hardware have had their antennas unplugged so they can't call home. I don't trust IoT devices in my house to have any internet connection, so why would I trust one that can actually kill me (a car).
... and bluetooth streaming is a crap ass solution that I have no interest in.
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My wife was a big car play person. Now that her new car has google software she doesn't use carplay even though the car supports wireless carplay. I like carplay for Waze. But I don't miss it. I don't have use my phone for sirius xm, apple music, amazon music, tunein, spotify etc. And when I'm not driving I can use the native Tesla zoom app with the in-cabin camera to make zoom calls. Different strokes for different folks.
But I see no downside for Tesla offering a carplay experience. Just more options (good options - options which people like and want)
Clearly you have never owned a Tesla. Tesla has more car recalls than cars produced. The Big Mac is the best selling hamburger in the world in spite of the fact that it will kill you. Best selling means absolutely nothing.
Nonsense. https://www.moomoo.com/community/fe...h a simple over-the-air (OTA) software update.
Best selling means users making the choice they want. Vote with your $$$.
Clearly you haven't either. Most of the "recalls" are fixed by OTA software updates - where one recall was a font being too small.
Literally have one
Made up of mostly software recalls. That's your big argument? Recalled for removing fart mode? Wow what a safety issue. LMAO
It means the product is compelling. lmao
I am somewhat surprised we haven't had any leaks of the "holiday" update features yet. Nor has anyone in the FW hacking scene mentioned seeing hooks for carplay in the recent 2025.44 firmware. I am curious if that means it either isn't coming, or maybe it would be seen for the spring update.
It is your right to buy based on your concious, but are you really following through with that in everything you do? Are you researching every CEO of every product you buy? Finding out who the farmer is your produce comes from wand what his views are? Or are you comfortable with ignorance in those things but because you dislike Musk you won't let that fly regarding the cards?
If you were to buy a Tesla the best part of the ecoysystem is home charge. Electricity is cheap and every day you leave fully charged. Superchargers while quick will become annoying if you are using them for regular charging. I could put on about 200km of range in 10 mins with a supercharger but I still had to sit at a super charger for 10 mins. Home charging is slower but you can fully charge up your vehicle in 4 to 5 hours for a lot less thens super charger.
I’ve seen the news in it. If Tesla does ever deliver it would be a milestone that deviates from the “not invented here syndrome”.
even if it was their own implementation they did add Apple Music and Podcasts. So it wouldn’t be super surprising for them to add CarPlay. With as late as the rumor was it would have been a miracle for it to show up in the holiday update and there be no leak of it in prior firmware branches.
Just finished a one week rental of a non Tesla car, and used CarPlay for the week. Boy do I miss my Tesla. For navigation CarPlay zooms in way too close when driving, you see maybe the next 200 yards ahead. Panning and zooming the map way way worse than the Tesla system. If CarPlay came to the Tesla, I would never use it.