Apple’s new generation version of its popular Carplay infotainment software is finally launched three years after its announcement for the first time.
Business said Thursday that this new version of Carplay – now known as “Carplay Ultra” – will start to deploy on new Aston Martin vehicles in the United States and Canada, about half a delay.
Although it is still fed (wireless) by an iPhone, Carplay Ultra takes both the main infotainment screen as well as the digital dashboard in front of the driver and is more deeply integrated into 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 certain vehicle parameters – provided that drivers have an iPhone 12 or later under execution at least iOS 18.5. Meanwhile, certain functions such as emergency cameras will always be able to “pass“The Carplay user interface.
Apple said that some existing and compatible Aston Martin vehicles will obtain Carplay Ultra “in the coming weeks thanks to an available software update from local dealerships”. The company also said that the Hyundai, Kia and Genesis brands have registered to make it compatible in their vehicles.
The launch of Carplay Ultra Help Apple to the fields of play with Google, which, for years, has helped car manufacturers to ship cars with an integrated version of its Android Auto operating system. This week, Google has announced that it brought its gemeratives Ai Gemini to Android Auto.
Apple hinted that the slow deployment of Carplay Ultra was, in part, linked to the work required to ensure that the software adapts to “visual and visual design philosophies” of its partner car manufacturers. The company said in its press release on Thursday that it had designed these “personalized themes” in “close collaboration” with the design team of car manufacturers like Aston Martin. He also said that drivers will be able to personalize the “colors and wallpapers of themes to match their individual tastes”.
It is an ambitious leap in front of the basic version of Carplay, which turned out to be so popular that a popular tumult Start almost every time a car manufacturer avoids the software.
But the deployment is still far from what Apple was originally teeming during his conference of the 2022 world developers, when he showed a slide with 14 logos of car manufacturer and said that these brands were “delighted to bring this new vision of Carplay to customers”. At least one of them, Mercedes-Benz, said it since will not use the new Carplay Ultra.
