Porsche Still Has No Imminent Plans to Launch Next-Generation CarPlay Despite 2023 Preview

In precocious 2023, Porsche previewed what next-generation CarPlay could look like successful its vehicles, with a brace of images showing a customized instrumentality clump and more. However, the luxury automaker has yet to merchandise immoderate vehicles that enactment the bundle astir a twelvemonth later, and it sounds similar it inactive has nary imminent plans to bash so.


A spokesperson for Porsche contiguous informed MacRumors that the automaker plans to support its existent level of CarPlay integration successful the "near term." Porsche supports modular CarPlay, and portion immoderate of its vehicles similar the Taycan connection further features similar EV routing successful Apple Maps, that is not next-generation CarPlay.

Aston Martin besides previewed its next-generation CarPlay plan alongside Porsche past year, but it has yet to merchandise immoderate vehicles that enactment the system.

Apple's website continues to accidental that the archetypal vehicles with next-generation CarPlay enactment volition "arrive successful 2024," but nary vehicles enactment the bundle yet. Apple and automakers person conscionable implicit a period remaining to conscionable that 2024 timeframe.

Apple archetypal previewed next-generation CarPlay in June 2022, promising deeper integration with the instrumentality clump and clime controls, enactment for aggregate displays crossed the dashboard, a dedicated FM vigor app, widgets, and more. The interface tin beryllium tailored to each circumstantial conveyance exemplary and automaker's marque identity.


When it unveiled next-generation CarPlay, Apple said committed automakers included Acura, Audi, Ford, Honda, Infiniti, Jaguar, Land Rover, Lincoln, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, Polestar, Porsche, Renault, and Volvo. Nearly 2 and a fractional years person gone by since Apple shared that list, however, truthful it is unclear if it remains afloat accurate.

It is inactive precise imaginable that next-generation CarPlay ends up launching this December, and caller enactment suggests that Apple is inactive making preparations. Earlier this month, a fewer redesigned next-generation CarPlay icons appeared successful iOS 18.2 beta code, and Apple filed to support its next-generation CarPlay designs in the European Union.

Apple has been adding next-generation CarPlay references to iOS since iOS 17, truthful it is unclear what the minimum iOS mentation request volition beryllium for the system. In immoderate case, we expect iOS 18.2 to beryllium released on December 9. Hopefully, Apple volition yet denote next-generation CarPlay availability details astatine immoderate constituent adjacent month.
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