And I prefer physical switches that I find blind over "hard to hit" touch surfaces in a car.
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What to Expect From All-New CarPlay, Still Listed as Coming 'Late 2023'
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A distinction without a difference, I believe. CarPlay (and Android Auto) are simply layers that project from your phone over the car's UI and communicate little if at all with the car's systems. So this method is a limitation, not a feature. To go beyond this limitation some version or component of CarPlay has to run natively on your car's hardware, independently of your phone, or most of what is being described here simply can't be done. Many seem to believe Apple is going to release a new version of CarPlay that will allow the instrument clusters on their cars and other controls to be projected from their phones. Never, as in, no way. Apple wouldn't want that and neither would the carmakers.
Assuming it just connects the existing tuner to the UI so if you are in a region with DAB or what we call HD Radio in the us I assume this will be present as well. TBD if AM and Sirius XM would be available although I assume both may be
I really wonder where all of this will go, especially if Apple Car becomes reality. I wonder if they will make it as simplistic as possible... no clutter at all?
I just hope they release it with USB C charge port on the side... I really don't want to have to turn over my car each evening to insert a lightning port in the underside 😆
I just hope they release it with USB C charge port on the side... I really don't want to have to turn over my car each evening to insert a lightning port in the underside 😆
I wish there was a way to add your own wallpaper. Seems like a simple enough thing to implement and lots of folk would like it. Heck I would even spring a moderate amount for an app that would do this. A static image would do.. a time/date widget would be a bonus
I too cannot wait for my every micro movement to be recorded and continually monitored in order to raise my insurance costs
Depends on the car. This is supposed to scale across systems. I have a 2017 civic And it has a main screen and then a screen behind the steering wheel. as well as Wi-Fi and bluetooth and regular CarPlay. I don’t see why it couldn’t be done from a technological standpoint
I think it's inevitable. Especially if self driving becomes the normal thing. Black boxes will be required to allow car companies to know what went wrong, and how to resolve issues that result in fatalities.
They would have to be standardised too..
I think if you're a responsible driver, these things would actually lower your insurance costs.
What’s the alternative? Should Apple be trying to sell gauge clusters and center console units to car manufacturers?
They will just make their own car... essentially what Surface was for Microsoft.
I just don't see this going the way Apple want it to go, unless its on their own device. It's what they do, its what they are known for and they are good at it.
I prefer a car with windows.
Dunno, most cars have horrible screen interfaces. When my CarPlay screen pops up on my Mercedes dashboard, it's a breath of fresh air.
True. It is very very buggy. Not only the connection between the iPhone and the car, but the apps as well. It very much feels like a hobby project. And don't forget the bare bones interface: you can't even switch focus modes or silence notifications.
Yeah, I’m sure it varies greatly from model to model and among manufacturers, but I have no complaints of the built-in (BMW) facilities. Like you, I use voice for pretty much anything I want, and it just works. Certainly more responsive than anything I try to do with Siri.
These days I seem to only use CarPlay when I use a radio streaming app I like (TuneIn) or Amazon Music. Even there, CarPlay support for vehicle controls seems inconsistent. In Amazon Music I can use the steering wheel (or center console buttons) controls to skip track, but TuneIn apparently can’t switch stations or do anything with vehicle controls. I know that’s more the app developer’s responsibility, but it seems like something that basic would be a requirement to claim “CarPlay” compatibility.
There is no way Apple is going to make this hardware dependent on the Car Makers. It is 100% going to continue to be a projection of your phone on all the screens. Other then people's intuition, it would go against the way Apple would want to handle their Software.
Everything here can continue be done with projection from your phone. The hardware from Apple that would be part of the vehicular systems is simple data acquisition that is to the phone. They already have this functionality but is very limited to lighting/gps currently.
In Apple's ideal world, they would simply have access to all of the vehicle's CAN buss'. But more then likely the Auto Manufactures will want more control over it and chose to relay this info to Apple's DAQ
Having a 2024 model car, I am not going to hold my proverbial breath waiting on these supposed new features next year.
My experience it is usually the car bluetooth stack crashing. 90% of the time rebooting the phone or trying to reconnect does not work and only thing that does is rebooting the stereo. Can only imagine if the speedometer crashes
A car with windows would be pretty neat.. its only fair that if some have android, some have iOS, that others can have windows.
With Apple's software QC firmly in the toilet these days, I'd definitely wait a good year or more after release before trusting this in my car.
I think older hardware was laggy. My 2021 vehicle wasn’t “laggy” per se, but it wasn’t smooth. My latest 2024 vehicle is much smoother and quicker when reacting to touch/swiping.
Just got an Ottocast to enable wireless CarPlay on my wired-only Challenger. Now I just need Spring to roll around so I can drive it.
For better or worse, I was recently hit in a parking lot, hit and run, driver also banged up a few other cars on their rapid escape. I’d THOUGHT I was going to go through a long extended “thing” with the insurance company, but it was cleared in less than a week. Totaled the car and was out shopping for a new one.
If the telemetry in my car showed I was motionless foot on brake in the GPS tagged parking lot when I was struck from the side… such that the insurance company doesn’t fight it? I’m for it. I guess that also means I’d HAVE to be “for” it if the data showed that I spend most of my time driving weaving rapidly in and out of traffic going 30 over the posted speed limit and burning doughnuts in parking lots.
Guess I’ll have to resist the urge to do those two.
The timing of this post is hilarious - I literally screenshot Apple's CarPlay page this weekend to keep track of when they change the phrasing to "early 2024" (or whatever) cuzzzz...I don't have high hopes this is coming before EOY 😅 ALTHOUGH, the 2024 Kia EV9 is coming to the US imminently and it's the first Kia getting Digital Key 2, which uses UWB to use the iPhone as a key and more. The EV9 is likely my next car so I'm hoping they come out as CarPlay 2 compatible!! I won't hold my breath, though.
