Apple’s strongest “car system” released, contracting all your in-car screens, can be used next year

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Last night, Apple was going to take over all the screens in the car.

Early this morning, Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC 2022) opened online. As in previous years, Apple released a brand new version of its operating system at WWDC, and also introduced the M2 chip, which is more “fried” than the M1.

At the nearly two-hour press conference, Apple also unveiled its new in-car mapping system, CarPlay. Although Apple only gave a brief introduction to the new CarPlay based on iOS 16 in 3.5 minutes, it can be found that CarPlay, which is 8 years old this year, has ushered in the biggest update since its release.

From the presentation at the press conference, the new CarPlay has a number of important changes.

1. CarPlay supports all screens in the car, regardless of screen size or horizontal or vertical screen form.

2. The interface of CarPlay supports the car instrument, which can display various data such as speed, engine speed, oil temperature, oil quantity, etc., which is almost the same as the instrument function of the original car.

3. CarPlay supports the control of hardware devices such as air conditioners and seats in the car.

It can be said that Apple’s new CarPlay is a complete smart cockpit system. As long as it is connected, users do not need to use the original system, and all the screens in the car are the experience of CarPlay.

In 2014, Apple cooperated with some car companies to install the iOS-based mapping system CarPlay into Mercedes-Benz, Ferrari, Volvo and other brands. Since then, CarPlay has almost become the standard configuration of imported models from joint ventures, making up for the shortcomings of overseas car companies in the field of smart cockpits.

However, although CarPlay has been updated to a certain extent with the iOS system, it still shows some powerlessness in the face of the explosion of smart cockpits in 2022.

Can the design change and CarPlay, which also supports all screens in the car, become the core competitiveness of the intelligent joint venture and imported brand models, and can it compete with the new power car companies?

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Design and change the instrument can be customized

In the main speech of Apple’s WWDC 2022, an “ecosystem” section was specially opened. One of the important ecosystems of iOS is CarPlay.

Emily Schubert, Apple’s senior manager of automotive experience engineering, said in her speech that 98% of car models in the United States now support CarPlay, and 79% of new car buyers in the United States believe that they will only consider buying a car equipped with CarPlay.

However, with the development of automobile intelligence, major changes have occurred in the car. From a hardware point of view, car screens are getting bigger, and the number of screens in the car is also increasing. If CarPlay still only supports a single screen, it is obviously unable to support the rapid iterative updates of the automotive industry.

Therefore, the iPhone, as the core computing device of CarPlay, has greatly improved its computing performance and has more uses in the car.

In the CarPlay demo animation, the most striking thing is that it supports all the screens in the car.

Whether it is the instrument, central control, or co-driver, or there is a “fish” screen in the car, CarPlay can perfectly support it, unlike the previous one that only supported a single horizontal screen.

In terms of software experience, the new CarPlay also has a considerable upgrade.

First is the meter. As a core driving component, car instrumentation has very high safety and stability requirements, and car companies usually do not open it to third-party manufacturers. Apple’s CarPlay supports the instrument display, and turns the car instrument into the appearance of the iOS system by obtaining various data such as the vehicle’s speed, engine speed, oil temperature, and oil quantity.

At the same time, the instrument can also be customized by the user. Just like the Apple Watch dial, the driver can choose the instrument display method that the driver likes. It can be a traditional pointer type or a modern minimalist style. The background and layout of the instrument panel can also be customized by the user. .

The second major change in the new CarPlay is the ability to control hardware devices such as air conditioning and seats. Thanks to the in-depth cooperation between Apple and car companies, as well as the upgrade of the electronic and electrical architecture of the car, users can directly control the temperature and air volume of the air conditioner on the home page of CarPlay, the seat ventilation and heating, and the radio can also be directly turned on from CarPlay .

The third major change in CarPlay is the addition of widgets in the iOS system. The common weather, navigation, calendar, weather, world clock, smart home and other widgets in the iOS system can be presented on the car screen, and the driver can also add these widgets to the instrument for easy viewing. When the phone rings while driving, it can also be displayed directly on the instrument. This means that the driver can see the core information of CarPlay and even the mobile phone by tilting his eyes slightly, without having to tap on the central control screen.

In addition, CarPlay has also added a split-screen display, and there is also a Dock bar at the bottom of the main screen similar to that on the iPad.

However, this system may not be unveiled this year. Apple plans to get on the car at the end of next year. At that time, the new CarPlay is likely to be a mobile phone mapping system based on iOS 17. At the press conference, Apple announced that the first car companies to use the new CarPlay include Land Rover, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, Nissan, Ford, etc., but there are no Chinese brands yet.

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Supporting more than 600 cars, Apple has bigger ambitions

In 2014, Apple officially launched CarPlay at the Geneva Motor Show. At that time, there were very few models supported, only Mercedes-Benz, Ferrari, and Volvo were supported. Later, it expanded to major overseas brands such as BMW, Ford, GM, Hyundai, and Toyota.

Today, there are more than 600 models that support Apple CarPlay, covering a large number of joint venture and imported brand models, and many self-owned brand models also support CarPlay. It can even be said that CarPlay has already become the standard configuration of joint venture imported cars of traditional car companies, and it has made up for its lack of intelligence and ecological incompatibility.

However, judging from the press conferences in recent years, Apple has even greater ambitions in the automotive field.

At WWDC 2020, Apple launched the Car Key function. After pairing with a vehicle that supports Car Key, the door can be opened by simply touching the phone and the door handle (NFC pairing). Put your phone on the wireless charging pad in the car and the car will start. This feature is already in production on several BMW models.

Starting with the iPhone 11, Apple has added the U1 ultra-wideband chip to the iPhone. This chip can also be used for door unlocking. Compared with the NFC unlocking method, users do not even need to take out their mobile phones. This feature is already in production on the BMW iX.

At the same time, in recent years, there have been continuous rumors of Apple building a car. What kind of car Apple is going to build and whether it can change the auto industry is also the focus of the industry’s core focus.

Therefore, Apple’s new CarPlay, to a certain extent, shows Apple’s vision for the travel scene in the next few years, and also shows Apple’s true definition of a smart cockpit system.

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Conclusion: Apple accelerates the layout of smart cars

Intelligence has already become a major trend in the automotive industry, but each car company defines intelligence differently and does not have extensive R&D experience, so the products they make are mixed. Even some products have only an intelligent appearance, and the experience is non-intelligent.

Therefore, Apple, Huawei, Baidu, and Google are all laying out mobile phone mapping systems, using the computing power of mobile phones and the understanding of technology Internet manufacturers on software and user experience to make the car system more like a mobile phone.

In the past 7 or 8 years, the mobile phone mapping system represented by Apple CarPlay has laid a considerable ground. Today, with the explosion of automotive intelligence, Apple is once again standing at the forefront of the industry, accelerating the deployment of smart cars.

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