Android Auto (Google Assistant) vs Apple Carplay (Siri)

Apple CarPlay gets widgets, a new design, and live activities

Apple says CarPlay is used more than 600 million times per day, and today at its big Worldwide Developers Conference keynote, the company had some news to share about it.

The new Liquid Glass design of iOS 26 will extend into your car via CarPlay with a "consistent, expressive experience while you drive". The new icons, Apple boasts, look great in both light and dark mode.

When you get a call, there's now a more compact design for the notification that still lets you see your map, for example. There are also tapbacks, letting you quickly respond to a message with an emoji by tapping on the screen, and pinned conversations in Messages, which you can get to faster.

With iOS 26, you're also getting widgets and live activities in CarPlay, and they're the same ones already on iOS, so app developers don't need to change them in any way in order to have them show up in CarPlay - they just automagically will.

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Apple CarPlay gets widgets, a new design, and live activities

Everything looks fresher, in tune with the iOS 26 redesign.
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Apple CarPlay to get major usability and customisation update

Changes to be rolled out as part of IOS 26 which will arrive this autumn

Apple CarPlay is to receive a major update aimed at increasing usability and introducing more customisation options.

Arriving as part of a IOS 26 - previewed on Monday night and pencilled to launch in the autumn – the main focus has been to keep key information, like maps, more visible.

As part of this, incoming phone call notifications will no longer take up the whole infotainment display or cover mapping directions, instead displayed in a more compact view.

Alongside this, messages will be less distracting, says Apple, popping up as a small notifications at the bottom of the screen. Users will now also be able to respond to them with Tapbacks and pin contacts.

Apple has also given CarPlay a new design, mirroring the more curved-edges look of the upcoming IOS 26 system. What’s more, the update brings widget customisation (so the home screen can be designed by the user) and Live Activities (such as flight tracking) so “users can stay in the loop without losing focus on the road”, says Apple.

www.autocar.co.uk

Apple CarPlay is getting a lot more customisable with new update | Autocar

Changes to be rolled out as part of IOS 26 which will arrive this autumn
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appleinsider.com

Car makers reject CarPlay Ultra as an Apple overreach

Apple's CarPlay Ultra faces a long road to becoming a widely-used feature, as car makers are pushing back on supporting Apple's system in favor of their own solutions.
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Apple's CarPlay Ultra faces a long road to becoming a widely-used feature, as car makers are pushing back on supporting Apple's system in favor of their own solutions.


The shift from CarPlay to CarPlay Ultra is a big one for car manufacturers to make. Instead of occupying just the main infotainment system's screen, CarPlay Ultra spreads out to other areas of the dashboard, as well as having more direct control over the vehicle's various features.

While Apple introduced CarPlay Ultra as a concept three years ago, and finally became a reality in Aston Martin cars in May, consumers have even more of a wait before using it in other vehicles. To blame are the car makers themselves, resisting because they prefer their own creations.

Car manufacturers Mercedes-Benz, Audi, Volvo, Polestar, and Renault told the Financial Times that they have no interest to include CarPlay Ultra support in their vehicles. The list includes manufacturers that Apple previously indicated were going to use the software.
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