While CarPlay has become very common in cars over the past several years, most manufacturers are still relying on a wired implementation that requires the user to plug his or her iPhone in using a ...

At CES last week, BMW unveiled a major revamp to its iDrive infotainment system, built on the new “BMW Operating System X.” The revamp brings a new “BMW Panoramic Vision” design with infotainment that ...

Many BMW owners have been unable to access CarPlay in their vehicle for the past several days, according to several reports on Reddit. This CarPlay downtime is seemingly related to BMW’s ...

Many criticized BMW’s unusual decision to charge its customers an annual subscription fee to use Apple CarPlay. While some feared this would become the norm across the industry, it’s turning out to be ...

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If you own a BMW and have recently experienced problems accessing CarPlay in your vehicle, you're not alone. Several BMW owners took to Reddit over the last few days to share their inability to use ...

BMW has confirmed it will not support Apple's next-generation CarPlay Ultra platform in any of its upcoming vehicles. This is the first unequivocal public rejection of ‌CarPlay‌ Ultra by BMW since the ...

Apple has invested a lot of money in CarPlay, and as such, wants all iPhone owners to use it and all automakers to adopt it. CarPlay is the integration between your iPhone and your vehicle when you ...

Commentary: Putting a paywall in front of a free service is a terrifying glimpse of what a world without net neutrality could look like. Tim Stevens Former editor at large for CNET Cars Tim Stevens ...

CarPlay has long been a bone of contention in the automotive space. On the one hand, some carmakers have always insisted on CarPlay as one of the most important capabilities of their cars. On the ...