For Apple it was the next logical step three years ago: CarPlay, the interface of the iPhone to the car’s infotainment system, was a great success and is very much in demand for car owners. In Cupertino, it was therefore imagined to spread on the entire dashboard and also offer the Apple experience there. But … Read more
With iOS 26, CarPlay also receives an unusually extensive update. In addition to new Liquid Glass design elements, Apple is expanding auto integration with widgets and live activities. In the future, users will see both directly in the infotainment system, for widgets there will be their own view on the CarPlay Homescreen. All of these … Read more
Together with its other new operating systems from iOS 26, MacOS 26 to TVOS 26, Apple has also announced innovations for CarPlay this week. Apple’s vehicle integration gets a new look and various smaller and larger improvements. New design, widgets, more The design should be based on the “Liquid Glass” interface already built into the … Read more
Apple’s deeper iPhone vehicle integration CarPlay Ultra already got good grades from the first testers: the system uses well, CarPlay makes the direct takeover of other functions on the dashboard better overall. The problem: Currently only a car brand has announced that you are moving directly. And Aston Martin vehicles, which are initially only offered … Read more
What was Ferrari at the start of CarPlay 1 over 10 years ago is now Aston Martin: CarPlay Ultra made his debut at the British sports car manufacturer. The new generation of iPhone autointegration can shake off the vaporware status, but it remains miles away from the mass market. Handproof announcements for the introduction of … Read more
Some things take time: As early as the summer of 2022, Apple announced a significant revision of his vehicle integration for the iPhone with “CarPlay 2.0”. Originally it was supposed to appear “by the end of 2023”, but both this date and a fresh deadline for 2024 let Apple and its manufacturer partners pass. But … Read more
CarPlay 2 is called “CarPlay Ultra”. Apple announced the introduction of the next generation of iPhone autointegration on Thursday-and for the first time mentioned the new name. At the beginning, however, the system is reserved for certain Aston Martin vehicle models, and only in the USA and Canada. New orders there by SBX, Vantage, DB12 … Read more
If you currently have problems with Apple’s iPhone vehicle integration CarPlay, you should urgently import the latest iOS update. With iOS 18.4.1, which had been released last week, Apple not only delivers an important security -critical patch – whose fixed gap has already been attacked – but also remedies difficulties in the car that occurred … Read more
It was either a PR stunt or a test of how far you can go at Apple: A developer from the USA offered a briefly a car play app with which users could use a web browser and a video player on the screen of a car via Apple’s car interface. Shortly after becoming known, … Read more
Apple’s vehicle integration for the iPhone, CarPlay, have reported problems since the update to iOS 18.4. It happens that the display is no longer loaded in the instrument cluster, sometimes CarPlay no longer reacts. Corresponding threads can be found among other things On Redditlike the automatic magazine AutoVolution reports. Apple had actually wanted to make … Read more