Apple Announces Multi-Display CarPlay With Integrated Speedometer, Climate Controls, and More

Monday June 6, 2022 10:51 am PDT by Joe Rossignol

The next-generation CarPlay experience will be able to provide content across multiple screens within a vehicle, and deeper integration with a vehicle's hardware will allow users to control the radio, adjust climate controls, and more directly within CarPlay. Apple said the new version of CarPlay will also seamlessly display a vehicle's speedometer, fuel level, temperature, and more on the instrument cluster.

Apple added that CarPlay users will be able to personalize their driving experience by choosing different gauge cluster designs, and widgets will provide at-a-glance information from the Weather and Music apps right on a vehicle's dashboard.

Apple said the first vehicles to support the new CarPlay experience will be announced in late 2023, with committed automakers including Ford, Lincoln, Mercedes-Benz, Infiniti, Honda, Acura, Jaguar, Land Rover, Audi, Nissan, Volvo, Porsche, and more. Apple said it will share more information about the new CarPlay experience in the future.

Introduced in 2014, CarPlay is Apple's in-vehicle software platform that can be accessed through a vehicle's infotainment system when an iPhone is connected to the vehicle with a Lightning cable or wirelessly in vehicles that support wireless CarPlay.

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Top Rated Comments

GadgetBen

7 hours ago at 10:53 am

Apple announces Apple Car

Score: 10 Votes (Like | Disagree)

ghostface147

7 hours ago at 10:57 am

This is pretty cool actually. However existing cars are out of luck. However for radio and climate controls, hard buttons are always better.

Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)

beermode

7 hours ago at 11:01 am

Imagine this crashing as often as it does now and poof, even your gauge cluster is out.

Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)

dontwalkhand

7 hours ago at 11:01 am

This is pretty cool actually. However existing cars are out of luck.

Not too bad considering existing cars have regular CarPlay. And of course Tesla doesn’t but their UI is decent.

But next car will have to support this for sure! If Tesla won’t get on board, bye bye Tesla!

Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)

_Spinn_

7 hours ago at 10:54 am

This looks amazing. Can't wait to see this roll out in cars.

Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)

btrach144

7 hours ago at 10:55 am

Wow, I was think about getting a new car but will wait for this. That looks incredible. Cannot wait for late 2023.

Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)

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