Porsche’s next Taycan gets an infotainment upgrade — but no new CarPlay

Here’s Porsche’s 2026 PCM setup. | Image: Porsche

Porsche is upgrading the infotainment successful the upcoming 2026 exemplary twelvemonth Taycan, 911, Panamera, and Cayenne with “more responsive” bundle and features specified arsenic an Alexa idiosyncratic assistant.

The 2026 Porsche Communication Management (PCM) volition get the Porsche App Center introduced successful the Macan Electric. It provides “direct entree to a ample fig of apps” and a “wide scope of services” that tin tally connected the touchscreen. In an email with The Verge, Porsche spokesperson Calvin Kim said these caller models tally connected the MIB3 architecture, first launched successful 2022, and not Google’s Android Automotive OS similar successful the Macan Electric.

Apple’s delayed next-generation CarPlay was expected to beryllium introduced connected Porsche and Aston Martin vehicles, but Porsche made nary notation of it successful this announcement. The caller strategy inactive has the aforesaid aged CarPlay and Android Auto, though.

Porsche’s in-car apps could trim the request of telephone mirroring services similar Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. Many EV makers similar Tesla, Rivian and GM don’t adjacent see the quality to reflector your instrumentality and necessitate you to subscribe to connectivity services wrong the car.

Porsche volition see 10 years of Porsche Connect work modular successful each of these caller vehicles to “optimize the integer idiosyncratic experience.” Part of that acquisition besides includes Amazon Alexa, which successful summation to Porsche’s Voice Pilot, tin beryllium utilized arsenic the drivers’ integer dependable assistant. Alexa tin play euphony and podcasts, unfastened your store door, edit to-do and buying lists and more. Porsche doesn’t accidental if this is the revamped AI-powered Alexa Plus that Amazon announced successful February.

Porsche is besides adding Dolby Atmos enactment with the caller PCM strategy successful models with premium audio instrumentality similar Bose that tin springiness occupants an immersive, spatial dependable experience. 2026 Porsches tin beryllium ordered present and volition get astatine US stores successful “late summertime 2025.”