Why do we report on iOS? Because it’s the “parent” of CarPlay; CarPlay runs under iOS, while iOS is the operating system software that runs your phone. When something changes/improves/breaks/gets fixed in iOS, it can affect CarPlay, thus our interest in iOS in general and iOS 13 in particular. iOS Read more…
As the demand for smart cars grows, all major automakers have introduced CarPlay (“iOS for your car”) to the majority of their model lines. The last few stragglers are cleaning up by adding CarPlay to the remaining few vehicles that escaped this treatment up to now. The 2020 Toyota Highlander, Read more…
Do you drive a 2015 Azera, or a 2016 Sonata Hybrid, Sonata Plug-In Hybrid, Veloster or Azera without CarPlay? Pro Tip: you can update your Hyundai via do-it-yourself installation, and get CarPlay! Details on the CarPlay DIY upgrade are here. You’ll be directed to https://owners.hyundaiusa.com/us/en/index.html, and you’ll need an empty Read more…
Like a helpful hand from heaven, Maps on Carplay now shows approaching cross streets. This makes it easier to judge when a turn is coming up, or to know which street to cut down to make a shortcut to get where you’re going. I used it yesterday when I cut Read more…
If you’re willing to hack your phone (“jailbreak” it), you can run every app under CarPlay. That’s a big “if”. Why would you want to do this? There are actually more automobile models that are CarPlay enabled than there are CarPlay apps. Essentially, CarBridge allows you to use your car’s Read more…
39 of respondents said that they’d rather use the navigation app on their smartphone than the system built into their dashboards. (That’s less than half of the study participants, obviously, but it’s also up 19 percent from 2014.) 57 percent of respondents wished that automakers would stop trying to develop their own infotainment Read more…
Bug bug bug bug bug bug bug You can’t simply tap a point on the main screen and “go there”. You can on your iPhone, but that defeats the whole point of CarPlay, namely, stay off your phone. There’s no upcoming turn warning, or alert. At least, there’s no obvious way to Read more…
I thought this is interesting: Mazda ad on Facebook showing CarPlay very prominently on the 2018 Mazda6‘s dash. I think they’re proud of finally being on the CarPlay bandwagon, and want to cement in buyers’ minds that new Mazdas do have CarPlay. It was a long stretch where Mazda was Read more…
Surprisingly, CarPlay is unavailable in some countries. In fact, it’s unavailable in the vast majority of the globe’s countries, given that this list is 36 items long and the number of countries currently hovers at 195. Australia Austria Belgium Brazil2 Canada Chile2 China Denmark Finland France Germany Hong Kong India2 Read more…