Apple unveils a major CarPlay update: multi-display, new features, and a new UI

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Apple unveiled during the WWDC 2022 Conference a major update to CarPlay, a smarter and safer way to use the iPhone while driving and is already used in more than 600 different models. The updated version of Apple CarPlay will be formally launched in 2023.

The upcoming version of the integrated system will allow users to adjust air conditioning, seats temperature and the option of Apple Maps to run on the behind-wheel screen, and much more. All of these adding to the already known features like getting directions, make calls, send and receive messages, and listen music.

For all these features, CarPlay will become a multi-display system showing and allow users to choose different types of tiles to display including weather.

Recently, the Swedish EV maker Polestar confirmed the arrival of the Apple CarPlay system this Spring to Polestar 2 and its upcoming models. When asked about it, Polestar said it is “in the final development stages”. The new operating system will

Written by Cláudio Afonso | [email protected] | LinkedIn | Twitter

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Cláudio Afonso
Cláudio Afonso is the Founder and Editor of EV, an independent electric vehicle news publication owned by CARBA Investments, the company he founded in early 2021. Between 2022 and 2024 he worked in European corporate communications at Nio, and he returned to lead EV in April 2024. He is based in Portugal.