Roger Fingas
General Motors' Cadillac division on Tuesday announced that it will add support for Apple CarPlay to most of its 2016 vehicles, the first group of which will launch later this summer.
Shoppers should in fact be able to get CarPlay on any model with an 8-inch multi-touch screen, the one exception being the SRX Crossover. Cadillac is also promising to add Android Auto support, but only further into the 2016 production run.
To access either CarPlay or Android Auto, drivers will have to tap on a "Projection" icon on their screens. Apart from touch controls, people will also be able to trigger Siri or Android voice commands by hitting a button on their steering wheel.
During Monday's WWDC 2015 keynote, Apple announced several ehancements to CarPlay such as wireless connections, support for new screen sizes, and automaker-made apps capable of controlling in-car functions such as heating and air conditioning. Cadillac did not say how many of those improvements will be implemented into its lineup.
GM is making a major push into CarPlay and Android Auto this year. In May it announced plans to put the platforms on 14 Chevrolet models.
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Now that is one ugly, cheap, plastic-laden looking dash if I ever saw one... Just reinforces my view of domestic cars as complete trash.
Would be great to see if any of the Apple blogs can come up with a list of cars that have CarPlay available out of the box
Most of, wow, all six models. Great work Cadillac, you've really outdone yourself this time. And it's not going to make it on the most popular model. Genius.
Most of, wow, all six models. Great work Cadillac, you've really outdone yourself this time. And it's not going to make it on the most popular model. Genius.
And it's still the wired version that you have to connect via USB. Maybe we'll see the wireless CarPlay in 2017 or 2018 models.
Hopefully it's wireless car play , I'm sure it would be nice for women to leave their phone in their purse and be able to have full functionality of it. Hopefully more cars will be added , I'm due for a new car in the next year or so .