The next version of Apple CarPlay will be released in 2024. The company showed off CarPlay controls for Porsche and Aston Martin. The next version of the CarPlay interface has unique design elements. Carmakers and Apple are working together to add unique design elements to the CarPlay interface. Porsche and Aston Martin are the first companies to show off this feature publicly. Both of these high-end performance carmakers have shown off the unique CarPlay interface that will be offered in future models. The latest version of CarPlay merging adds more features to all the screens in a car, not just the main entertainment screen. There are different template versions and unique features that make sure the interface fits the brand’s style while still keeping the familiar CarPlay experience. For example, Porsche’s CarPlay interface has three round gauges and background wallpaper that looks like the brand’s famous houndstooth (or Pepita, as Porsche calls its seat pattern) pattern. Aston Martin, on the other hand, goes in a different direction. There is a center information panel and a circular speedometer and tachometer with “Handbuilt in Great Britain” written all the way around them in this car’s cluster. Apple’s next-generation CarPlay technology needs a host car to get data about driving, but it only needs an iPhone to share app-related information. Apple knows that linked iPhones don’t keep track of or store information about cars. Since the next version of CarPlay is connected to the car, it can also show information from the car’s built-in entertainment system, such as tire pressure readings and other similar things. Aston Martin said that Apple’s next-generation setup works with its newest infotainment system, which will be available in 2024 in cars like the DB12 coupe and DB12 convertible (or “Volante,” as Aston calls it). Porsche, on the other hand, didn’t say when this latest version of CarPlay would be available in its models. Because Aston Martin works with Lucid and Mercedes and Porsche works with the Volkswagen Group, these companies will eventually put similar technology into other cars in their lines.
