Apple’s next generation version for its popular infotainment Carplay software is finally starting three years after it was first notified.
The company said on Thursday that this new version of Carplay – now known as “Carplay Ultra” – will begin to go out in new Aston Martin vehicles in SH.BA and Canada, approximately half a year late.
While still enabled (wireless) by an iPhone, Carplay Ultra undertakes both main screens of infotainment as well as digital dashboard in front of the driver, and is more integrated with vehicle systems. This means that the new Carplay software will display things such as vehicle speed, fuel mileage, travel information and water temperature.
Carplay Ultra will also be able to control some vehicle settings – provided the drivers have an iPhone 12 or later operate at least IOS 18.5. Meanwhile, some functions like spare cameras will still be able to “mark” UI Carplay.
Apple said some existing and compatible Aston Martin vehicles will receive Carplay Ultra “in the coming weeks through a software update available in local traders.” The company also said that brands Hyundai, Kia and Genesis have been registered to make it compatible in their vehicles.
The launch of Carplay Ultra also helps Apple also the playing field with Google, which for years has helped automobiles send cars with an embedded version of its Android vehicle operating system. Only this week, Google announced that he was bringing her generating twins to Android Auto.
Apple has implied that Carplay Ultra’s slow turnout was, in part, about the work required to make the software adapt to the “unique brand and philosophies of its partner’s automobiles. The company said in its press release on Thursday that it has drafted these “custom topics” in “close cooperation” with the automobile design team like Aston Martin. He also said drivers will be able to fix “the colors and backgrounds of the threads to match their individual tastes.”
It is an ambitious jump ahead of the basic version of Carplay, which has proven so popular that a anger begins pretty every time a car avoids the program.
But participation is still far from what Apple initially tears up at its developers’ conference around the world 2022, when showing a slide with 14 automobile logos and said those brands were “excited to bring this new Carplay vision to customers.” At least one of them, Mercedes-Benz, has then said he will not use ultra new carplay.
