No sign of CarPlay 2: Apple misses the 2024 deadline
The first vehicles with the "next generation" of CarPlay were actually supposed to appear in 2024 – Not happening. Car manufacturers have shown little interest.
This is what CarPlay 2 should look like in a Porsche. It remains unclear when the first models will be available.
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CarPlay 2 is still a long time coming: Apple has missed its self-imposed deadline for the market launch of the "next generation" of iPhone car integration. The first vehicle models with support for the new CarPlay version presented two and a half years ago were actually supposed to be released in 2024, as Apple promised on the associated product page. This has not yet happened.
Porsche and Aston Martin on board
So far, there are only two car brands that have specifically promised support for CarPlay 2 - Aston Martin and Porsche. The British sports car manufacturer wanted to bring a first model onto the market as early as 2024, it was said at the end of 2023. The DB12 was under discussion, but according to the manufacturer, it only supports the familiar CarPlay 1 as well as Android Auto. Porsche has not yet announced a specific model. The revised 911 presented in the middle of the year also remains with CarPlay of the first generation.
With CarPlay 2, Apple is aiming for much deeper integration into vehicles: The user interface provided by the iPhone is to extend across all displays in the vehicle and, for the first time, also output central elements such as the speedometer digitally. Apple has promised close cooperation with car manufacturers so that they can adapt the interface to their own design ideas.
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Complex integration of CarPlay 2
So far, car manufacturers have publicly expressed little interest in CarPlay 2. Integration is considered complex because, unlike Google's Android Automotive, Apple does not supply a complete operating system for the vehicle:
CarPlay 2 continues to run mainly on the iPhone, but some elements must be rendered locally in the vehicle so that real-time information can also be displayed. The system must be designed to continue to display the speed on the speedometer, for example, even if the wireless connection to the iPhone is lost.
Apple announced last summer that CarPlay 2 works exclusively wirelessly. CarPlay 1 works either via a cable connection or wirelessly, with the interface being streamed from the iPhone to one (or more) of the vehicle's displays.
CarPlay and Android Auto are now almost ubiquitous in new vehicles. The only major outlier remains Tesla, where only individual Apple services such as Music are supported. EV newcomers such as Rivian have so far also dispensed with CarPlay support. The US car manufacturer General Motors caused quite a stir in 2023 with its announcement that it intended to do without CarPlay and Android Auto in electric cars.
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