Tesla's CarPlay Plans Delayed by Apple Maps Compatibility Issue

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Tesla is inactive readying to bring Apple's CarPlay to its vehicles, but a compatibility contented betwixt Apple Maps and Tesla's ain navigation bundle has held things up, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.

Writing successful his latest Power On newsletter, Gurman says that Tesla recovered during investigating that turn-by-turn directions from its maps app didn't sync up decently with Apple Maps during autonomous driving. That could beryllium confusing for drivers, who could perchance person some navigation apps unfastened broadside by side, since CarPlay is expected to tally successful a model wrong Tesla's existing bundle interface.

Gurman says that Tesla asked Apple to marque engineering changes to Maps to lick the problem. Apple reportedly agreed, and shipped a hole successful an iOS 26 update, but adoption of the caller bundle has been slower than usual. Apple last week said that iOS 26 is present moving connected 74% of iPhones released successful the past 4 years, conscionable down the 76% that iOS 18 had reached by January 2025.

Tesla had primitively aimed to adhd CarPlay by the extremity of 2025, according to Gurman. It's rather the reversal for Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk, who person agelong ignored lawsuit requests to instrumentality CarPlay. But the diagnostic is seemingly seen arsenic a imaginable income operator – Tesla's infotainment strategy is wide considered the champion successful the business, but CarPlay is inactive a must-have for a batch of car buyers.