In 2022 Apple showed us a preview of what they wanted to achieve with a new generation of Apple CarPlay. Initially what they told us was how this extension could reach the instrument panel and even the screen in front of the co-pilot if the car has one. Today Apple shows us a much clearer video of how they plan to achieve everything.
First of all, we must make it clear that Apple is offering to all the brands that want, collaborating with them to perfect the system, with this they can create different bases that are in tune with what they seek to transmit to their users. In turn, they can allow for a huge level of customization for each driver.
Apple, working with each specific brand, will ensure that its interface best adapts to the hardware and software requirements of each car, to guarantee that Apple CarPlay can work in the best possible way.
Unique customization
Apple CarPlay would no longer only be limited to the car’s central screen, now it can also extend its interface to the digital instrument panel of our car.
With this in mind, Apple says that we can fully customize each of the clocks on the digital instrument panel to our liking: change font thickness, gauge colors, style, backgrounds and much more.
This interface will be able to show absolutely everything that the traditional car interface would do, that is, from the common witnesses for some failureeven giving us details about the use of fuel, energy and advanced assistance that we are using.
In a nutshell everything continues to work as we expected, although now it is displayed through a personalized style and with classic Apple fonts.
It is even possible to customize the position of the watches to have the information in the way we like best. It will also be possible to change the information that each of us needs for each occasion.
Designated areas
For better control of everything, Apple makes it clear that The instrument panel will only focus on elements related to the car and its driving, The only thing beyond that will be being able to view the song or program that we are listening to with a simple image as is and many cars make today.
However, the central screen and the co-pilot screen, if the car has it, will be more varied in terms of the information and applications that can be displayed and executed. Apple offers the possibility of letting brands enter their own iconography such as logos, driving mode animations and even readers of their own cars to improve the visual quality of the interfaces.
In fact, a while ago Some prototypes have already been shown in collaboration with Porsche and Aston Martin to illustrate this point.
The new generation of Apple CarPlay should arrive at the end of this year. Unfortunately, not all cars will be able to execute it, because as we already saw, to achieve all this level of new elements, each brand must authorize Apple to extend the scope of CarPlay.
For those brands that do not decide to join the new generation of the system, they will be able to continue running Apple CarPlay as we know it, with new features and performance updates that will arrive as we have seen in recent years.
