Rivian Activates Apple Car Key Support in Second-Generation Vehicles

EV shaper Rivian appears to yet beryllium rolling retired enactment for Apple's integer car keys disposable done the Wallet app connected iPhone and Apple Watch. Rivian announced enactment for the feature successful debuting its second-generation R1S and R1T implicit a twelvemonth ago, but the institution had not activated it until today, arsenic spotted successful an Apple configuration record by MacRumors contributor Aaron Perris.


While we can't corroborate whether it's up and moving for each users conscionable yet, Apple has pushed enactment unrecorded connected its end, truthful owners of supported Rivian vehicles should hopefully beryllium seeing it soon.

Apple's car cardinal diagnostic allows an ‌iPhone‌ oregon Apple Watch with NFC capabilities to unlock a conveyance done the Wallet app. A integer mentation of a car cardinal is stored successful Wallet, and unlocking tin beryllium done simply by holding an Apple Watch oregon ‌‌iPhone‌‌ adjacent a compatible vehicle's NFC reader. And with Ultra Wideband technology, compatible vehicles tin adjacent admit a integer car cardinal with your telephone inactive successful your pocket.

Rivian has supported its ain integer cardinal diagnostic done the Rivian app, but Apple Wallet enactment volition connection much seamless integration for ‌iPhone‌ users, presumably including features similar cardinal sharing and Express Mode to let the cardinal to relation for respective hours adjacent aft your instrumentality has tally retired of artillery and unopen down.

Rivian inactive has not shown immoderate involvement successful adding enactment for CarPlay successful its vehicles, with CEO RJ Scaringe saying past year that handing implicit functions to ‌CarPlay‌ would beryllium astatine likelihood with Rivian's tendency to connection a seamlessly integrated acquisition successful its vehicles.

While ‌CarPlay‌ inactive doesn't look to beryllium successful the cards for Rivian vehicles, today's rollout of Apple car keys joins integrated Apple Music with Spatial Audio enactment arsenic Apple features adopted by the brand.

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