“It’s the best of the iPhone and the best of your car together in a unified and consistent experience across all screens in the car”. This is how Apple, and more specifically its Human Interface Designer, Ben Crick, has presented the new generation of CarPlay at Apple’s latest conference at WWDC 2024 held this week.
CarPlay is, together with Android Auto, one of the great advances in modern cars when it comes to interacting with them, since it allows us to bring all the content, settings and preferences of our mobile phone to the car in a very simple way. But as we saw a few months ago, For the new generation of CarPlay, Apple promised to take integration and customization with cars even further, even reaching the instrumentation screen and even others.
Full integration with all screens and interface customization
Lamto 7-inch device with Apple Carplay and Android Auto and reversing camera
Thus, as they already anticipated even in 2022, CarPlay will be able to adapt to the hardware design of any vehicle, and what is even better, it will allow us to customize different elements of the screens. Focusing again on the instrumentation, it will allow, for example, to change the speedometer and rev counter clocks. being able to put them in digital or analog, changing their frame, their design style and even the source of other indicators. We can even put the wallpaper we want.
Another interesting feature of the instrumentation will be a band that will be able to monitor how close to the set speed our car is traveling with adaptive cruise control. Color coding will also play an important role in this new generation, showing red bars when we are close to running out of fuel or charge or when the vehicle is overheating.
As if all this were not enough The new Apple CarPlay will also allow you to display dynamic content such as moving maps or calendars. In addition, we can leave all this permanently on the screen or let it appear automatically when it is going to be used, for example in relation to maps and navigation.
At the moment Apple has not detailed which manufacturers it has worked with to implement this generation of CarPlay, which seems to require greater interaction between Apple and the brands to integrate in the best possible way. As we know At the time, the first samples showed examples with their own identity with Porsche or Aston Martin, and Mercedes also announced its total commitment to CarPlay for the future, but surely there will end up being more that will integrate, to a greater or lesser extent, these new functions and features. when this new version is released later this year.
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Specialized in the world of motors, competition and technology, Antonio Ramos Ochoa is an editor at Car and Driver. It is said that before getting out of the car he was already saying the name of the cars that he was seeing on the street. A few years later he is still talking about one of his passions here. A fan of Motorsport, cinema, video games and history, he even lets off steam from time to time behind the wheel of a kart or a simulator.
