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CarPlay Does CarPlay ever become unsupported?
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My Hyundai has a MagSafe charging pad that I purchased from the store and placed in the vehicle. If only all vehicles would allow you to easily install a wireless charging pad if you wished.
Wait, they do!
I could of course just plug in via lighting too of course.
TOTAL non issue.
Exactly and I love having the option of just hopping in my car without taking my phone out of my pocket. In fact, It's been over a month since I've installed my unit and have not charged my phone in the car since.
For local trips, taking a 30min drive with google maps and Spotify playing, I only consume 3% battery. I don't feel the need to plug it in to make a run to the grocery store, gym, work, etc. If I was heading out of my area, then sure I'd plug it in.
It also helps I'm not like my friends who seem to be below 10% charge at all times 😂. It did take a few times to get used to doing that since I was religious about plugging it in as soon as I got in my car. Again, do whatever, but nothing wrong with having the choice of skipping the plug!
Note: I have a 1 year old iPhone 13. So my battery is quite decent still. As someone who came from an aged battery in an iPhone 8, I can appreciate the need to find a plug as soon as possible!
Interesting! That would definitely add to its longevity!
The accuracy of your GPS in urban areas with narrow streets is *far* more of a concern than the extremely low lag time of a wireless connection.
Yeah I also have a 2016 Honda civic and I actually gotta an adapter to make my CarPlay wireless. Haven’t plugged in in over a year
What complexity and cost? It's literally all built into the car. I purchased the vehicle, sat in the seat, and put my phone in the spot where the wireless charger is installed. I'm not seeing what's complex about that.
Right? my qi charger is actually built into the car from the factory, but it's such a non-issue to put a charging pad in if it wasn't.
What latency?! I've been using wireless Carplay in my BMW since 2017 without issue!
Just to throw my hat in the ring here. I have two Audi's, one that supports wired CarPlay and one that supports wireless CarPlay. There is a noticeable delay when using wireless CarPlay that does not exist when using the same phone via wired CarPlay.
UConnect (on Jeep Grand Cherokees at least) has massive issues using CarPlay, especially wireless CarPlay. It can literally brick the radio. I have a Jeep GC 2022 and it nearly fried my headunit. I was fortunate to get new phones for my family after a few months of the issues and when we set the phones back up again, we made sure to DECLINE wireless CarPlay. A shame really. Wired CarPlay is seemingly working fine. This was experienced with multiple iPhones, all running the latest and greatest. I have other older vehicles where the wired CarPlay works great, but these head units do not have Wireless CarPlay capability.
If you want a good time, google "UConnect Wireless CarPlay Issues". Just because it works in a Ford doesn't mean it works in other systems unfortunately. This is confirmed by multiple dealers in my area (NY).
You just won't be able to update CarPlay at a certain point. It'll still work, like an older iPhone. It just will become firmware locked.
I have wireless CarPlay with my Mini Cooper Countryman. Never had any latency issues in the last 6 years with it.
To be fair, in my experience uconnect is just awful in general. At least when I had it in a 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee. I know that was 8 years ago so maybe they made it less terrible.
CarPlay is just a window into whatever your phone is projecting onto it. You can’t update it on the car side, it lives on iOS.
Well, there is an install in the car's Infotainment system, but the iPhone updates it as you say as it is iOS side. Much like AW is updated from iPhone.