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Plug an iPhone into a new Macan, Taycan or Panamera and you’ll still be able to adjust the temperature of the air con and ...
BMW has confirmed it will not support Apple's next-generation CarPlay Ultra platform in any of its upcoming vehicles. This is ...
While German luxury car maker BMW has previously avoided committing to Apple's CarKey Ultra, it has now announced that it ...
Bavarian Motor Works (BMW) has confirmed that it has no plans to offer support for Apple's next-generation CarPlay Ultra ...
BMW's iDrive X looks to be a major departure from what we've seen in BMWs of the past, and we can't tell how CarPlay Ultra ...
As with every iOS update, iOS 26 will bring with it some changes for the CarPlay interface that appears when your iPhone is ...
One CarPlay Ultra holdout is doubling down on its decision to pass on the feature, which was launched in May after a long delay.
BMW has always had a weird relationship with Apple CarPlay. Even before the feature debuted, company executives said that their vehicles wouldn't support the Apple infotainment system.
The firm first pushed out Apple CarPlay BMW implementations back in 2016 for select rides following a long bout of uncertainty in terms of the platform's viability on the company's vehicles.
This doesn’t appear to be the case with Apple CarPlay, says Rob Passaro, an automotive tech and product management consultant who while at BMW led the co-development of iPod Out, the predecessor ...
BMW briefly tried to charge owners for using Apple CarPlay, but that drew protest. A more direct approach is to simply not allow smartphone integration at all, which Tesla has always done and EV ...
Our editorial team doesn't agree on many things, but we were unanimous in calling out BMW for fleecing shoppers by charging a subscription fee for Apple CarPlay. "BMW still irks us with an $80 ...