Here's What Automakers Told Us About CarPlay Ultra (Not Very Much)

Earlier this month, Apple announced the motorboat of CarPlay Ultra, the long-awaited next-generation mentation of its in-vehicle bundle system. CarPlay Ultra is presently constricted to luxury Aston Martin vehicles successful the U.S. and Canada, but Apple said that galore different automakers astir the satellite are moving to connection it wrong the adjacent year.


We asked much than a twelve automakers astir their CarPlay Ultra plans, and we person rounded up their responses below. Unfortunately, but possibly unsurprisingly, astir of the companies had small to thing to accidental astir their aboriginal plans, and they whitethorn not privation to hazard upsetting Apple by divulging accusation prematurely.

Apple's announcement did uncover that Hyundai, on with its Kia and Genesis brands, are among the automakers that are committed to offering CarPlay Ultra. A spokesperson for Hyundai confirmed that the automaker intends to connection CarPlay Ultra, and it plans to stock further accusation erstwhile imaginable successful the future.

A spokesperson for Volvo said that it was 1 of the committed automakers included successful Apple's database erstwhile it archetypal announced next-generation CarPlay in June 2022. However, the institution did not corroborate if it inactive plans to connection CarPlay Ultra.

That archetypal database from 2022 was arsenic follows:

• Acura


• Audi


• Ford


• Honda


• Infiniti


• Jaguar


• Land Rover


• Lincoln


• Mercedes-Benz


• Nissan


• Polestar


• Porsche


• Renault


• Volvo

Porsche previewed its next-generation CarPlay instrumentality clump design successful precocious 2023, but the automaker has not provided an update since then.


Mercedes-Benz has since expressed a deficiency of willingness to fto Apple fundamentally instrumentality implicit its bundle experience, truthful it whitethorn not connection CarPlay Ultra aft all.

Porsche and Mercedes-Benz person yet to respond to our inquiries.

Subaru volition beryllium assessing CarPlay Ultra for aboriginal conveyance models successful its lineup, according to a institution spokesperson. Mazda offered a vaguer response, with a typical determination confirming that the institution is ever evaluating caller technologies to connection the champion lawsuit experience, without mentioning CarPlay Ultra specifically.

GM ditched CarPlay successful its caller EVs, truthful it is hard to spot the automaker adopting CarPlay Ultra crossed its brands similar Chevrolet, Buick, GMC, and Cadillac.

A spokesperson for Ford declined to comment, portion different automakers similar BMW, GM, and Toyota person yet to respond to our inquiries.

A spokesperson for Honda and Acura said they would respond later.

As the rubric of this nonfiction made clear, these responses bash not magnitude to precise much. Most automakers offered non-answers, oregon sideways answers astatine best, which aligns with Apple's civilization of secrecy. But, we wanted to stock what we heard.

CarPlay Ultra features heavy integration with a vehicle's instrumentality clump and systems, built-in Radio and Climate apps, customizable widgets, and more. The interface is tailored to each conveyance exemplary and automaker's identity, and drivers tin besides set the colour scheme. To larn more, work our sum of Apple's announcement.
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