[superkrups20056]

Pretty amazing and clean how it takes over all the car's screens.

Verge video and article:

https://twitter.com/verge/status/153...er-integration

https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/6/23...er-integration



I'm very surprised BMW is not included in the initial list for next generation Carplay. Their connected screens we see for iDrive 8 would work perfectly with this. Not to mention that BMW was one of the first to implement widescreen Carplay, then wireless Carplay, then BMW Key in iPhones.

[Eugr]

And they even showed picture of a BMW screen when talking about CarPlay. I was surprised not seeing their logo.

[cruzer666]

I'm not surprised BMW doesn't trust Apple CarPlay with its instrument cluster. The instrument cluster is key to delivering critical and time sensitive information to the driver. Above everything, this is a matter of safety.

I can't remember how many times I had to reboot my iPhone for CarPlay to function again.

[sahajesh]

While I think this is great (and I don't have the issues with CarPlay and phones needing a reboot), you do need to think about the reliability and how the system will hand-off (quickly!) to the native system if there are issues.

Still, Apple and the manufacturers have to start somewhere.

[newbote]

I see Volvo and Polestar are included but they are moving all their cars to a Google operating system. I find it odd that the new CarPlay will work with them but not BMW.

[superkrups20056]

Originally Posted by cruzer666

I'm not surprised BMW doesn't trust Apple CarPlay with its instrument cluster. The instrument cluster is key to delivering critical and time sensitive information to the driver. Above everything, this is a matter of safety.

I can't remember how many times I had to reboot my iPhone for CarPlay to function again.

They said it is going to be enabled so that all the data you see is coming directly from the car. This is why it is presumably only going to be working on later models. I'd imagine the basic CarPlay OS will be installed on the car so that it's always working and if there are drops you may have calendar and music issues or stuff like that, but the essential items will continue to work.

I never had issues with CarPlay dropping until the most recent BMW update with my iPhone X. I suspect the software problems arise from BMW's end, as usual.