Toyota to Gain Apple Car Keys Support

Apple is preparing to bring enactment for its Car Keys diagnostic to Toyota vehicles, grounds uncovered by MacRumors suggests.


Toyota introduced its ain Digital Key diagnostic arsenic portion of the disposable Remote Connect bundle respective years ago, which allows drivers to usage their smartphone arsenic a cardinal to entree and thrust the vehicle. Now, the institution appears to beryllium adding enactment for Apple ‌Car Keys‌, with the diagnostic going unrecorded arsenic of contiguous connected Apple's backmost end.

Introduced successful 2022, ‌Car Keys‌ allows an iPhone oregon Apple Watch to unlock a conveyance via the Wallet app. A integer mentation of a car cardinal is stored successful the Wallet, and unlocking tin beryllium completed by holding an Apple Watch oregon ‌‌iPhone‌‌ adjacent a compatible vehicle's NFC reader.

Tapping connected the doorway grip is capable to initiate an unlock, and portion Face ID authentication is simply a information option, Apple offers an Express Mode that eliminates the request to authenticate for an adjacent faster unlocking process.

It is unclear erstwhile Toyota volition rotation retired enactment for ‌Car Keys‌ to its vehicles, and the institution has not yet made immoderate announcements related to the feature, but it is apt to beryllium comparatively soon since the diagnostic is present unrecorded connected Apple's backmost end.

At WWDC 2025, Apple confirmed that 13 conveyance brands would "soon" adhd enactment for integer car keys, including Audi, Acura, Porsche, GMC, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Rivian, Smart, Lucid Motors, Tata Motors, Hongqi, WEY, Chery, and Voyah.

Vehicles from BMW, Genesis, Kia, Hyundai, Lotus, Mercedes, Volvo, and much already connection car keys support, with a list disposable connected MacRumors.
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