Apple to Let iPhone Users Watch Videos on CarPlay Screen While Parked

Apple this week announced that iPhone users will soon be able to watch videos right on the CarPlay screen in supported vehicles. iPhone users will...

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@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?

@dmoren @caseyliss

They’ve been using accelerometer to lock out iPhone functions for years now.

@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 @dmoren @caseyliss

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.