Casey Liss
Dan Moren@caseyliss I'd like it to see if it can figure out when my stick shift is in park. đ¤¨
@dmoren I had the same thought, but I **think** it's based on location services not any sort of comms with the car.
But apparently it needs enhanced support on the car side regardless, so you and I are SOL anyway :(
Alexander L@caseyliss @dmoren If it was to use infomatics from the car; it would likely check for the parking brake. It's how the nav lock out works on my 6 speed (and how I defeated itâŚ).
Robert 
@ConnertheCat @caseyliss @dmoren wouldn't it just check if the engine is running? Or ignition? I would imagine that CarPlay receives those states, does it not?
Graham Ballantyne@robkrueger @ConnertheCat @caseyliss @dmoren that wouldnât work for the use-case of an EV at a charging station; it can be common to leave the car ârunningâ while charging so that you can have heat or AC going while you wait.
CarPlay already knows when a car is in park (doesnât help Dan, I know). I can only type a search in Google Maps in park, otherwise only voice search or tapping a list of quick shortcut locations.
@gnb @ConnertheCat @caseyliss @dmoren I can use CarPlay without leaving the car in âreadyâ state in my EV. And I can control climate from an app even if the car is âoffâ and locked. So I do think that there would be a way to use it while charging, if implemented correctly on both sides.
@robkrueger I was responding to the theory that it wouldnât work if the car was in an âengine onâ state. There are fully legitimate reasons to keep an EV âonâ but not driving. If Iâm in a ferry lineup, for example, I put it in park but donât turn it off so I can keep the AC running. Sure, I could turn it off and then start AC from my phone, but thatâs just silly.
@caseyliss The screen in my head unit is so small and low quality that this would be silly. But I don't loooove the idea of people watching video on these things. Someone will get around it. I wonder if they have multiple systems: check if you're moving with accelerometer/GPS and try to talk to the car if you can?
ChancerubbageTheyâve been using accelerometer to lock out iPhone functions for years now.
John Payne 
@Chancerubbage @dmoren @caseyliss I think car-dependent there is also feedback. For example in my 2019 subaru when the car was moving, my passenger could type into maps on the carplay screen. In my 2024 ford, the keyboard button isn't available when in motion. I don't think it's purely phone accelerometer/gps.
@john @Chancerubbage @caseyliss I've got a 2012 GTI that I retrofitted with CarPlay, so I'm pretty confident it knows almost nothing about the state of my car.
@dmoren @Chancerubbage @caseyliss yep! Just reflecting on my experience that, well, experiences differ across cars (and head units) :)
In my case, it is the iPHONE governing safety concerns and app disabling - the phone damn well knows you are moving.
@Chancerubbage @dmoren @caseyliss Yep - I just think it sometimes has more input to work from. It's always the phone, no way that the ford is able to turn off a carplay displayed software button in the maps app. But it seems that the phone is more confident that the vehicle is moving or not in park?
Maybe you could park on a hill start a movie put the car in neutral and let it start rolling down the hill and see what happens.
Itâs CarPlay, not AirPlay.
Fish@dmoren @john @Chancerubbage @caseyliss I did the same to my 2011 GTI, with an aftermarket Alpine, but it does know when I'm in park because I can't choose to add a new device to CarPlay unless the parking brake is on.
I'm not actually sure how it knows, I do also have a box in between that lets me leverage the steering wheel controls and I wonder if that's passing some info back to the head unit đ¤
Iâm talking of the iPhone in general assuming it has -something- to do with CarPlay for most users. (Could people be connecting their iPad instead? Probably, but could that take calls, an increasingly dubious need for some these days?)
But I doubt just because some interface elements have moved to a dash screen that iPhone would surrender its âcar is moving donât do thatâ protections.
Movies/TV on the back headrests for passengers? Already in the wild w or wo Apple.
Dave Nanian@dmoren @caseyliss Remember, they could always "get around this" by just putting an iPad in the car, or using the phone without CarPlay.
Jerks are gonna jerk...
@dnanian @caseyliss Totally true! I don't know if that makes it better or not. đ¤Ş
Jack Brewster@dnanian @dmoren @caseyliss Android Auto has supported video playback for awhile, though I think itâs also limited to while stopped.
Tim Schmitz@dmoren @caseyliss In my car I canât bring up the system keyboard in CarPlay apps unless Iâm in park. Maybe it uses the same system?