The Apple Carplay has just received a James Bond’s youthful cure.
The technology giant has teamed up with the luxury car brand Aston Martin for the initial deployment of Carplay Ultra, the next generation of the program that allows iPhone owners to bring the Apple ecosystem to their car.
Unlike his older brother, who is limited to the infotainment system in the central console, Carplay Ultra gives your complete dashboard the Apple treatment, including customizable features. The new program is like putting Siri in the passenger seat: it allows the assistant controlled by the voice to manage functions such as radio, climate and performance settings depending on the vehicle.
Drivers can adapt what they see on their screens in the car using their iPhone, mixing vehicle information itself with Widgets powered by Apple.
Carplay Ultra will cover several screens, said Apple. Apple
“With Carplay Ultra, with car manufacturers, we reinvent the experience in the car, which makes it even more unified and consistent,” said Bob Borchers, vice-president of Apple global product marketing, in a press release.
Carplay Ultra is available with orders based in the United States or Canada for the Aston Martin, Vantage, DB12 and Vanquish DBX SUV from Thursday, with plans to extend to a larger part of its range thanks to a software update on compatible vehicles. If you have instant access to the new program, it will likely be a six -digit madness.
An Aston Martin Vantage in 2025 begins at $ 194,000, and the DBX “Supercar of SUV” sells $ 256,000 to start, according to Car and Driver magazine. The British automaker said that it would limit imports to the United States by monitoring the “evolving” tariff situation, “CEO Adrian Hallmark wrote in the Report on the results of the first quarter of the company.
Apple announced for the first time its plan for a second generation of Carplay in 2022. In January, it changed the Carplay web page to delete its 2024 calendar without updating date, according to MacRumors.
Finally, Apple said, Carplay Ultra will be launched on other car manufacturers, such as Hyundai, Kia and Genesis, who have already undertaken to launch the new program.
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