Apple has updated its website confirming that its next-gen CarPlay is coming to select U.S. vehicles this year:
Beginning with select 2021 car models, you can unlock and start your car with iPhone. Sharing keys with friends or family is easy too. Car keys will even work for up to five hours after your iPhone battery runs out. – Apple Inc.
Dennis Sellers for Apple World Today:
It will support content for multiple screens within a vehicle. Apple says that deeper integration with the vehicle will allow users to do things like control the radio or change the climate directly through CarPlay, and using the vehicle data, CarPlay will render the speed, fuel level, temperature, and more on the instrument cluster.
Users will be able to personalize their driving experience by choosing different gauge cluster designs, and with added support for widgets, users will have at-a-glance information from Weather and Music right on their car’s dashboard.
“With the next generation of CarPlay, we partnered with automakers to design an entirely new, unified experience that enables the very best of Apple and each particular automaker,” says lan Dye, Apple’s Vice President of Human Interface Design. “It is a blend of a user’s personal experience of iPhone paired with a celebration of the strong brand identity of each automaker. The next generation of CarPlay also introduces a driving experience that leverages the advanced capabilities of the car along with the power of iPhone. We’ve designed a complete system of controls that allows for seamless interactions between vehicle functions alongside the features of iPhone.”
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Here’s my problem with Apple’s ‘customization’ with CarPlay – there isn’t much. Rather than define a bunch of items – outlines, shapes, background, buttons, etc. and allow you to choose a color/style for each, Apple would rather give you 3-4 weirdly similar backgrounds to choose from and call it ‘customized’. I mean, you can’t even upload your own image as the background. There isn’t a night mode. And don’t get me started on the text size in maps.
Sure, but isn’t that a good thing?
I won’t rent a car if CarPlay isn’t available on the vehicle so the idea that it remains, visually speaking, the same is exactly what I want.
You seem to have forgotten that it’s a software designed to be in a car. If someone were able to customize it to a degree that it looked unrecognizable it would not only be a bad thing, it would at the end of the day be really, really dangerous.
Probably a minor discomfort. Like some cars from BMW for seat/mirror/ac settings, those personalized customizations could be linked to the user’s key/fob. Adding an option to reset to factory/original layout could also be an option for those that have customized to an uncomfortable degree.