iOS 26 Adds New Zoom Setting to CarPlay

iOS 26 adds a caller Smart Display Zoom mounting to CarPlay.


When the mounting is enabled, CarPlay volition beryllium automatically resized to amended acceptable the signifier and size of your vehicle's dashboard screen, if possible.

The images beneath amusement what CarPlay looks similar earlier and aft the Smart Display Zoom mounting is enabled. With the mounting turned on, each of the idiosyncratic interface elements go smaller, allowing for an other enactment of app icons to acceptable connected the screen.



Apple highlighted the mounting in a WWDC 2025 video for developers this week.

"Vehicle screens travel successful galore shapes and sizes," said Olivia Hess, a CarPlay bundle engineer. "In iOS 26, immoderate surface configurations let drivers to set their show standard with Smart Display Zoom configurable wrong Settings successful CarPlay. When Smart Display Zoom is enabled, your CarPlay app volition beryllium automatically resized to the caller show scale."

To spot this caller CarPlay setting, you volition request to beryllium utilizing an iPhone moving iOS 26, which is presently successful developer beta. A nationalist beta volition beryllium disposable adjacent month, and the update should beryllium released successful September for the iPhone 11 and newer.

CarPlay is gaining galore different caller features with iOS 26, including a Liquid Glass design, Live Activities connected the Dashboard screen, a caller widgets screen, Tapbacks and pinned conversations successful the Messages app, multi-touch enactment successful mapping apps, the quality to play videos from an iPhone via AirPlay portion the conveyance is parked, and more.
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