The next generation version of Apple or its popular infotainment software Carplay will finally be launched three years after it was announced for the first time.
The company said Thorsday that this new version of Carplay, now known as “Carplay Ultra”, will begin to be implemented in new Aston Martin vehicles in the United States and Canada, approximately half a year late.
While it is still fed (wirelessly) by an iPhone, Carplay Ultra Take on the main info -learning screen and the digital board in front of the driver, and is more deeply integrated with vehicle systems. That means that the new Carplay software will show things like vehicle speed, fuel mileage, travel information and water temperature.
Carplay Ultra can also control certain vehicle settings: Provid drivers have an iPhone 12 or then with at least IOS 18.5. Meanwhile, certain functions such as backup cameras can still “hit” the carplay user interface.
Apple said some existing and compatible Aston Martin vehicles will get Carplay Ultra “next week through a software update available in local dealers.” The company also said that Hyundai, Kia and Genesis brands have registered to make it compatible in their vehicles.
The launch of Carplay Ultra helps Apple even the playing field with Google, who during the year has helped car manufacturers to send cars with an integrated version of their Autoid operating system. Just this week, Google announced that it brought its generative Ai Gemini to Android Auto.
Apple has involved that the slow launch of Carplay Ultra was, in part, related to the work required to make the software adjust to the “visual and single -brand design philosophies” or its associated car manufacturers. The company said in its Press statement Thorsday who has created “personalized topics” in “nearby collaboration” with the design team of car manufacturers like Aston Martin. He also said that drivers will be able to customize the “colors and wallpapers of themes so that they coincide with their individual tastes.”
It is an ambitious leap of the basic version of Carplay, which has proven to be so popular that a fuss begins almost every time a car manufacturer avoids software.
But the deployment is still very far from what Apple originally caused in its 2022 world developer conference, when it showed a slide with 14 logos of car manufacturers and said that these brands were “excited to bring this new vision of Carplay to customers.” At least one of them, Mercedes-Benz, has said since then that he won the new Carplay Ultra.
