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iOS 27: 8+ New CarPlay Features

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Navigation apps like Apple Maps and Google Maps can share route data with a vehicle for incorporating information like EV charging stops. The car is able to check a map route against the range of the vehicle, and suggest a charging stop.
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I have an older EV (2023 Bolt) that doesn’t share this information with CarPlay. But I do use ABRP with it. Could ABRP be updated to share this information with Apple Maps? Or is that not how this works?

Too bad Apple Maps can’t just connect directly to my OBD2 adapter.
 
xxFoxtail said:
I have an older EV (2023 Bolt) that doesn’t share this information with CarPlay. But I do use ABRP with it. Could ABRP be updated to share this information with Apple Maps? Or is that not how this works?

Too bad Apple Maps can’t just connect directly to my OBD2 adapter.
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It's not about Apple Maps getting data from other navigation apps. It's about making navigation apps aware of the remaining EV range so they can adjust the route and add charge stops. So you better stick with ABRP. 🙂
 
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Ta_whirimatea said:
Show ALL my music downloaded on my iPhone on the screen. Not just 12 albums 🤬
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We have two Suzuki Jimnys, a 3-door with a smaller, wired-only screen, and a 5-door with a big wireless screen. The wireless screen has the limitation that you describe. My investigation found that it's for "safety", so you don't spend an extended period of time focused on the screen. Okay, then I pick up my iPhone and spend an extended period of time looking at it. Brilliant safety measure!
 
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On apple creating their own "adapter" (singular noun). That is quite literally impossible. The only universal input is bluetooth audio. With USB audio being extremely common also.

CarPlay takes over the entire display system of the infotainment stack. It is a very big technological deal with a lot of very specific implementation details. I have installed exactly 3 of them in different cars and in each case the 50-ish pin wiring harnesses that plug into the infotainment stack were instead plugged into the adapter INSTEAD and a new pigtail for the adapter to the stack - in other words the adapter is designed for the exact model of infotainment hardware. In one of my admittedly incredibly limited examples there was also a wire that had to run all the way to the back of the car where it once again broke the connection to some module and the backup camera such that the display could be switched to the camera when in reverse.

With the release of iOS 26 both the adapters I still have would stay connected anywhere from 15 seconds to 5 minutes. After that they would disconnect and you had to shut off the engine (and open the door of course) to get the entire system to power reset. Connectivity was not restored until 26.3. So I look with great horror at what "improved reliability" means. I infer they are going to change the handshake again and may this time permanently break my after market adapter. I am also curious what those words mean because other than iOS 26.0 - 26.2 I have never had a moment's problem all the way back to 2020. This smells like they are going to try and kill off the CarPlay adapters that did not buy a license from Apple.
 
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Again nothing here I need or want. Apple innovation at its finest. I really wish Apple would work on making Maps a better navigation App with more options.
 
Terry2023 said:
On apple creating their own "adapter" (singular noun). That is quite literally impossible. The only universal input is bluetooth audio. With USB audio being extremely common also.

CarPlay takes over the entire display system of the infotainment stack. It is a very big technological deal with a lot of very specific implementation details. I have installed exactly 3 of them in different cars and in each case the 50-ish pin wiring harnesses that plug into the infotainment stack were instead plugged into the adapter INSTEAD and a new pigtail for the adapter to the stack - in other words the adapter is designed for the exact model of infotainment hardware. In one of my admittedly incredibly limited examples there was also a wire that had to run all the way to the back of the car where it once again broke the connection to some module and the backup camera such that the display could be switched to the camera when in reverse.

With the release of iOS 26 both the adapters I still have would stay connected anywhere from 15 seconds to 5 minutes. After that they would disconnect and you had to shut off the engine (and open the door of course) to get the entire system to power reset. Connectivity was not restored until 26.3. So I look with great horror at what "improved reliability" means. I infer they are going to change the handshake again and may this time permanently break my after market adapter. I am also curious what those words mean because other than iOS 26.0 - 26.2 I have never had a moment's problem all the way back to 2020. This smells like they are going to try and kill off the CarPlay adapters that did not buy a license from Apple.
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Yeah, if Apple is making the wireless adapter, they will control the handshake between the iPhone and wireless dongle so software updates will not intentionally break the functionality. With that said, I agree that Apple won’t make a wireless dongle.
 
"Video apps require car manufacturers to enable support on the vehicle, and no automakers have announced plans to add support as of now."

Not gonna happen!
 
I just want to be able to tell which word in the sentence Siri got wrong so I don't have to repeat the entire sentence. It always guesses wrong and starts changing another word, and must think I'm weird for talking about Subs so much when I'm talking about my son.
 
Just give me a $60 CarPlay head unit that doesn’t have three seconds of delay on the audio on a phone call!. I know I should probably be paying more. It is pretty how amazing how they’ve cracked the code on this.
 
doobydoooby said:
Personally the thing I really really want is for the navigation app to be able to adapt to your demands mid journey via AI. Eg Siri is there a car wash on my journey and can you please add an efficient detour to get me to one? Can you find a cheap gas station along my journey for me to fill up? I gather Google maps might be bringing this in but there’s no sign of it in Europe as yet
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Great suggestion
 
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No new emojis at all? ;-)

As a traveler in the U.S., I wish I could save routes I’ve created myself. Not just the shortest route on the interstate, but the interesting one along the coast that’s worth seeing.

I did find a way to do it, but it’s such a roundabout way.

Here’s how it works: You create your planned route in Maps and add as many stops as needed until it matches your desired route. Then you start the route, pull up the navigation window, and tap “Details.” Scroll all the way to the bottom and tap “Send to.” Here, I’ve selected “Notes,” where I’ve previously created a few folders with route names.

Once these are set up, you can access the planned route via “Notes” and the corresponding route.

Maybe this will help someone out.

edit: Once it's set up, it even works offline
 
Justin Cymbal said:
Awesome new features added to CarPlay! 👏👌😎

It would be nice if Apple created their own wireless adapter to retrofit older cars to be able to use wireless CarPlay instead of requiring users to purchase third-party hardware from unreliable Chinese companies:

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I bought this one last year and have found it to be extremely reliable. I use it almost every day. Much to my surprise, it has never once lost connection. Setup was fast and simple.

Link:

www.amazon.com

2025 Mini Wireless CarPlay Adapter for iPhone & Android Auto, Easy to Use Bluetooth Dongle with Fast Stable Connection, Converts Wired to Wireless Car Play Adapter, for 2016+ Vehicles with USB-A/C

2025 Mini Wireless CarPlay Adapter for iPhone & Android Auto, Easy to Use Bluetooth Dongle with Fast Stable Connection, Converts Wired to Wireless Car Play Adapter, for 2016+ Vehicles with USB-A/C
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wow, video apps. my tesla has this for years and works great, same as grok for conversation. im neither an apple nor tesla fanboy but as usual apple is years behind competitors, and im sure fanboys will give the same tired argument that they wait for everyone else then fine tune it. thats fine for a small company but a trillion dollar company? c'mon.
 
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cinegeek said:
Still no pinch-to-zoom...
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ignatius345 said:
One decent gesture I remembered recently is tap-tap-drag to zoom. (Tap twice, and on the second tap don’t lift your finger again. Then, still without lifting your finger, drag up and down to zoom.) It’s a lot easier than trying to hit the little +/– buttons while driving.

This gesture works outside of CarPlay as well, and can be handy for zooming one-handed.
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That might be a car manufacturer thing. I can certainly use touch panning and pinch zooming in my car (and it’s a 2020). But in my friend’s car, it is limited to the on-screen +/- and arrow buttons, which surprises me every time since I’m so used to multi-touch on mine.
 
I hope Siri AI finally gives the user access to star ratings in music. Apple burying one of the most useful features of the iPod in favour of binary Apple Music like dislike for the masses has been sub-optimal. Especially never exposing star ratings properly in CarPlay, and now burying them in the macOS Music app UIs.
 
DDustiNN said:
That might be a car manufacturer thing. I can certainly use touch panning and pinch zooming in my car (and it’s a 2020). But in my friend’s car, it is limited to the on-screen +/- and arrow buttons, which surprises me every time since I’m so used to multi-touch on mine.
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It is a hardware thing. My own screen does not support multi-touch so I use the gesture I mentioned above. My point is that there IS another gesture option for zoom besides those buttons.
 
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g4rb4g3 said:
It's not about Apple Maps getting data from other navigation apps. It's about making navigation apps aware of the remaining EV range so they can adjust the route and add charge stops. So you better stick with ABRP. 🙂
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It is also so cars with Point to Point ADAS will know what route the user wants them to take.
 
MacRumors said:
Reliability and Location Accuracy

Apple says that wireless CarPlay is more reliable in iOS 27, plus it supports improved GPS location accuracy and navigation heading detection.
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God, I hope so! There are times where Apple Maps on my Kenwood radio shows me several hundred yards away from where I really am. Sometimes it thinks I'm in the middle of a block, halfway between two parallel streets. Umm… no. Anything that can be done to improve accuracy would be amazing!
 
MacWanker said:
I just want messages back in carplay. The messages app completely disappears from carplay when the phone is set to require faceID/touchID to access messages (a feature I am not turning off), and you can't even access them and have them read and reply to via voice control/siri as it just vanishes totally. Same with spotify and other apps if you have that security setting turned on.
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You voluntarily enabled a security feature, and now are annoyed that that security feature is also working inside carplay. Make that make sense👍🏻
 
I use Car Linkit with EV and Latest Car Play version is tediously slower, takes some getting used to whilst driving
No Video Playback from in car Audio Nissan Leaf 2020
 
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