Apple CarPlay is going to transform. It will stop being an application for our car and instead become a complete software for our vehicle. We will also see it in the instrument panel and receive information from the car’s mechanical and electronic sensors.
years ago, Manzana launched into vehicle software development with its product Apple Car PlayJust like Google did with Android Auto. Today, almost any vehicle on the market comes from the factory with compatibility for one interface and the other. But the Cupertino company has decided to go one step further. Coming soon, Apple CarPlay will no longer be an application for the car and instead it will become part of the vehicle’s software.
What does that mean? What with the new version of Apple CarPlay that they have announced at WWDC 2022, their most recent keynote, the software that until now was displaced to the multimedia screen will also be available on the instrument panel of our car. And not only that, but this software also receives information from the vehicle and its sensors. Ultimately, it is all car software and an alternative to the automakers’ own software.
Apple CarPlay is all the software in your car and that’s good news
Actually, although it seems like an innovation on Apple’s part, Google has gotten ahead a few months with the release of Android Automotive. It was the logical step that both companies specialized in software should take, and the most logical thing is that the car manufacturers leave the doors open for them. For many years, although the software in our cars has been improving, it leaves a lot to be desired.
This evolution of Apple Car Play indicates that the software of the company of the bitten apple is in all car screens and that, in addition, receive information from your sensors. In this way, Apple CarPlay itself can show us what our fuel level is, the engine temperature or the mileage. The speedometer and the rest of the functions are also integrated here, and with a much more pleasant interface than the one that car manufacturers have been offering us.
But there is also another key point in all this, and that is that the great step forward of Apple CarPlay also gives rise to a mobile integration in our much larger vehicle. It was also something that had to happen and with the launch of Android Automotive, and this new iteration of Apple CarPlay, it will finally happen. The bad news, yes, is that this Apple CarPlay it will only be compatible with new cars and, at the moment, Apple has not announced which will be the first vehicle that integrates this new software.