During Apple’s WWDC22 keynote presentation, the company offered a “sneak peek” of the “next generation” of CarPlay, which will allow iPhone users to control and view iPhone-based apps through their car’s dashboard while going even further into the realm of the whole-car interface, controlling climate, customizing instruments, and much more.
Since its initial introduction, Apple’s CarPlay platform has become ubiquitous. It’s available in the vast majority of new cars on the market today, and for good reason: it’s one of the top things people look for when buying a new car.
While we haven’t gotten a chance to try the new CarPlay design, Apple’s imagery from WWDC offered a sneak peek.
The new design still relies on a grid of app icons as its primary user interface element, but there are plenty of other changes surrounding that app grid. There will be a split-view style interface for showing multiple apps at the same time, as well as a Dock at the bottom with quick access to recently-used apps.
Where the new CarPlay interface really shines, however, is with how it can take over your car’s entire infotainment system. This includes the center console display in its entirety, as well as any other displays like one behind the steering wheel…
Apple says that it will share “more information about the next generation of CarPlay” ahead of the official launch later this year.
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
I still want real knobs for volume and HVAC.
Fair enough.
A couple things:
1) Will any of these LCD screens still be fully functional if I keep a car I buy today for 30 years? I had one car for nearly 30 years because it was the perfect car for me and the car was 100% functional when I finally replaced it. The long term viability of the electronics in these new cars makes me wonder.
2) I travel a fair amount for business so I drive many different makes and models of new cars. The problem I have with the vast majority of these screens is that when it’s a bright, sunny day and the sun is streaming in while I drive the screens are unreadable–some 100% unreadable. When are car designers going to realize that they either need to shade these screens somehow or they need to create very bright screens that can be easily read when the sun is shining directly on them?
One additional thing… My experience with all those rental cars is that the touch interface needs work. Some are extremely sensitive as in you bare have to touch the screen at all to get a reaction leading to a lot of inadvertent activations. Some require “long, firm touches” of a couple seconds or more.
Finally, one last comment… When CarPlay was originally introduced it was claimed that CarPlay would be “hands free and eyes free” meaning you would not have to touch any of the screens to get things done and the driver would not have to take his/her eyes off the road to interact with CarPlay. Where is that version all these years later?
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I still use an iPhone 6 Plus. At the end of 5 year and enduring a battery charge time that lasted just minutes, I finally replaced the original battery with a new, largest capacity battery they had. The use time on this battery is only a few hours and not the original amount of use time the original battery gave me but it is better then minutes. My phone currently asks me every start up time for age verification. I tried to end that but have to log in with my Apple ID and password. That stops me every time. I constantly get blasted with storage full and the software no longer works. When I press on an app icon to get it jiggling with an “X” in the upper corner to delete app so I can free up space and end the storage disk full message, I can’t, because the “X” to delete the app is no longer there. So based upon past experience, I think I will avoid touch screen car panels and instrument cluster displays. Just like I’m avoiding slave inducing, environment destructing, battery polluting, bank account crushing, government tax credit debacle electric vehicles.