Casey Liss
Dan Moren@caseyliss I'd like it to see if it can figure out when my stick shift is in park. 🤨
@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 :(
@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?
ChancerubbageThey’ve 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.
It’s 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 🤔
I’m 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 ‘car is moving don’t do that’ protections.
Movies/TV on the back headrests for passengers? Already in the wild w or wo Apple.