Toyota Rolling Out Apple Wallet Car Keys on iPhone

In 2020, Apple added a digital car cardinal feature to its Wallet app, allowing users to lock, unlock, and commencement a compatible conveyance with an iPhone oregon Apple Watch. The diagnostic is presently offered by prime automakers, specified arsenic Audi, BMW, Hyundai, Kia, Genesis, Mercedes-Benz, and Volvo, and Toyota is present rolling retired enactment arsenic well.


According to a Reddit post, prime trims of the 2026 Toyota RAV4 enactment the Apple Wallet car cardinal diagnostic successful the United States, astatine a minimum. We person yet to corroborate if the diagnostic is rolling retired to immoderate of Toyota's different 2026 exemplary twelvemonth vehicles.

Toyota's implementation of the diagnostic utilizes Ultra Wideband technology, allowing you to simply attack the vehicle, unfastened the door, and commencement the vehicle, each with your iPhone successful your pouch oregon your Apple Watch connected your wrist. This passive introduction functionality requires an iPhone 11 oregon newer* oregon an Apple Watch Series 6 oregon newer.

A fewer months ago, MacRumors was archetypal to study that Toyota was planning to connection Apple Wallet car keys, truthful this rollout was expected. It appears that the diagnostic requires a Toyota Remote Connect subscription, which starts astatine $15 per month. A escaped one-year Remote Connect proceedings is included with the acquisition of a caller Toyota vehicle.

Apple has a web leafage with a list of conveyance models that enactment iPhone car keys, but it is updated infrequently, truthful it is presently missing immoderate newer additions.

* Excluding the iPhone SE 2, iPhone SE 3, and iPhone 16e.
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