I've been thirsting to have CarPlay at my disposal since it was first announced, but have been waiting for EVs to become more practical. That wait ended this weekend, when I purchased a 2022 Kia EV6. I excitedly plugged in my iPhone 13 mini and noticed the picture wasn't . . . great.
After a second, I realized that it looked just a little stretched. Not so much that the normal user would notice, but being someone who works in a visual medium, I could tell the tiles weren't equally wide and tall and the Cupertino font suddenly looked less slim. And having just gone on a roadtrip in someone else's Nissan, I was sensitive enough to notice that the time / reception info was coming way closer to the edge of the screen than is standard. I kept looking and realized that the display appeared a little less sharp in CarPlay than when displaying Kia's internal software.
The EV6 has a pretty big screen - or more importantly it has a very wide screen. I can't find the resolution, but it's 12.3 inch diagonally with an aspect ratio of something like 2:5 (or 250% as wide as it is tall).
My best guess here is that Apple currently does not support such a wide frame, so Kia is manipulating the native signal being sent from my phone to fill the frame (and also maybe pulling it just a bit in the vertical axis as well to make the horizontal growth less noticeable, even if that means it crops a little bit off the sides of the picture and brings the text very close to the edge). Though I suppose it's also possible that Kia has just done a poor job of implementing CarPlay.
Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Have other models ever displayed anything like this? And if it's just a matter of Apple not supporting the screen size, any idea if they would rectify this in the future?
Appreciate your time and thoughts on the issue!
After a second, I realized that it looked just a little stretched. Not so much that the normal user would notice, but being someone who works in a visual medium, I could tell the tiles weren't equally wide and tall and the Cupertino font suddenly looked less slim. And having just gone on a roadtrip in someone else's Nissan, I was sensitive enough to notice that the time / reception info was coming way closer to the edge of the screen than is standard. I kept looking and realized that the display appeared a little less sharp in CarPlay than when displaying Kia's internal software.
The EV6 has a pretty big screen - or more importantly it has a very wide screen. I can't find the resolution, but it's 12.3 inch diagonally with an aspect ratio of something like 2:5 (or 250% as wide as it is tall).
My best guess here is that Apple currently does not support such a wide frame, so Kia is manipulating the native signal being sent from my phone to fill the frame (and also maybe pulling it just a bit in the vertical axis as well to make the horizontal growth less noticeable, even if that means it crops a little bit off the sides of the picture and brings the text very close to the edge). Though I suppose it's also possible that Kia has just done a poor job of implementing CarPlay.
Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Have other models ever displayed anything like this? And if it's just a matter of Apple not supporting the screen size, any idea if they would rectify this in the future?
Appreciate your time and thoughts on the issue!